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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sequestration and Land Management-Nature Restoration: Discussion (15 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: .... Teagasc's presentation was very comprehensive but I wish to ask a few questions on it. Can Dr. O'Mara explain what he means when he says that the setting of a national target for LULUCF land use and change forestry has been deferred to allow new scientific knowledge to emerge? It seems to me we have a pretty good idea of what is right and what is wrong in terms of land use. We know,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Engagement with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (13 Sep 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...I ask the Minister to outline how he would deal with the concerns that these experts have expressed in their letter. Many of the concerns raised are around the legality of not having a target for land use, land-use change and forestry, LULUCF, and for postponing it, and the targets not being adequate and not fulfilling the requirements of the legislation in a timely and effective manner....

EirGrid, Electricity and Turf (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...around. We welcome any savings for consumers, but this is relatively small beans and we have no assurance as to when the refund will happen. We know, however, that the cost of this emergency plant may land on people's bills in the years ahead. As for another aspect of the Bill, we have no issue with that the ability of EirGrid and Bord na Móna to borrow greater amounts as such....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...he can be proud but I contend that the entering by the Green Party into a coalition with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, which have an appalling record on housing, the dispensing of public housing and lands into the private sector and pandering to the developer-led models they have, was bound to failure. Will the Minister comment on that? This system was specifically designed...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...is in a Government with parties that are dominated by their links to international finance, developers and the idea of private property for rent and ownership. They have handed over public land and facilities that could have been used not just to house refugees but to end the housing crisis and take the people off the streets; today I walked past dozens of people sleeping on the streets....

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...Chamber, into repeated committee meetings and into media debates under a pretence. That pretence was that it was willing to engage and listen to the concerns of the Opposition, the women of Ireland and those of us who marked out the movement to repeal the eighth amendment. The Government has not listened to anything. The aim of all of this was to talk down the clock and drag matters...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...meagre legal rights we have gained through the repeal of the eighth amendment. I will point out one other hypocritical act. We were told that we cannot apply a compulsory purchase order to the lands because it would delay the process. It is also put in a context that suggests it was us in Opposition who caused a nine-year delay. That delay was the fault of St. Vincent's Healthcare...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...ownership for the delivery of integrated patient care. That is an unsatisfactory answer to Dr. Day and to most of us in the Opposition. Will Mr. Menton clarify this? He stated ownership of the land is crucial to offer protection such that the hospital will be used for what it is supposed to be used for-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Ownership of the land is crucial to ensure the hospital will be used for what it is intended to be used for, but so is the term "clinically appropriate". Mr. Menton is doubling down on this need to be sure that the maternity hospital is going to be used as a maternity hospital. What is his fear? Is it that if the hospital went into the ownership of the HSE, it might one day be opened as a...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...the new maternity hospital. That does not stack up. I am extremely worried that that wording will be left in. Again, I ask the Minister to remove that wording and give a guarantee to the women of Ireland that "clinically appropriate" does not mean that some clinician or a team of clinicians makes decisions over women's lives but that women have control themselves over decisions that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...Use does not preclude the provision of any private healthcare services relating to the above uses which are permitted or envisaged". Is this a clause that doubles down on the State leasing the land on the question of private care in that hospital, even though it is built with public money? Does Dr. Boylan follows, or am I being too convoluted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, in 2018 and the outcome of that review that Dr. Catherine Day was involved in, which recommended in strong terms that it is far better for the State to own the land when there is co-location, and they recommend it very much. Obviously, that recommendation, that review that was ordered by the Government, is just wiped away and everything else is gone...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...; they were top officials linked to organisations like Opus Dei and the Knights of St. Columbanus. They were deeply embedded in the health service and the Civil Service and they saw to it that Ireland maintained an extraordinary conservative agenda in relation to women's reproductive rights. We have broken from that but people like me, though probably not so much the younger generation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...the new national maternity hospital that go back to 2012 and 2013, it seems to me from what the Minister has told us today that the bones and structures were all agreed pre-repeal. How much did post-repeal Ireland change that discourse and discussion? It must have changed it. A lot of that discourse and discussion took place when the sisters or nuns were still on the field. We are told...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: Before she comes in, I will make a point. Everything the Minister says conflicts with the fact sheet from the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group. The Minister says we own the land but the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group says that it owns the land. The Minister asks what interest the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group has but it says that it has an interest in it. The St. Vincent's Healthcare Group...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...another bit more time to get it right. We took a long time with the national children's hospital. That is costing us a load of money but at least it is being built on a campus where they own the land and are sharing the state-of-the-art facilities and medical facilities with St. James's without all this nonsense of three boards of directors and three constitutions and three mixed-up ways...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...'s Healthcare Group fact sheet, which is very useful, asks on page 2: "Who owns the NMH?". It states: "The new NMH DAC will be part of St Vincent’s Healthcare Group." It asks: "Who owns the land where the NMH [new maternity hospital]...facility will be built?" The reply is: "The land is owned by St. Vincent's Healthcare Group." Why will the national maternity hospital be owned...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...the vast majority of ordinary people do not trust this arrangement. Many are still undecided about whether they trust the Government but the majority does not trust it on this. The women of Ireland do not trust you. On Saturday outside this House there will be a major protest about this deal with the call that the Taoiseach, the Cabinet, the entire Government and the whole Oireachtas...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...for time to debate this issue. However, we get nothing new, except omissions. Where has the Minister dropped the 99-year lease that he then announced was increased to a 299-year lease on the land? That seems to be gone from the historical record. Why is that? I am really intrigued by this question, because of this convoluted, complex way of doing business from one voluntary hospital...