Results 41-60 of 361 for long speaker:Bríd Smith

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (2 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...try? Having received the Minister of State's report, I will raise the question of the lack of availability or funding of hot meals for secondary schools. This is wrong. It will not, in the long term, save the State any money, because many teenagers leave school at lunchtime to buy chips or chicken roll sandwiches, which are not good for their health, cause obesity and are very...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (2 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...me to break the rules. The main reason I wanted to raise this is because in my area we had new schools added to the DEIS list. That was very welcome because, until lately, on one side of the Long Mile Road was the Assumption school in Walkinstown, one section of which did not have DEIS status, and across the road was Drimnagh Castle, where boys go to school, and which had DEIS status....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (1 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...the abortion review, we need a timeline for such reports. We cannot leave these women waiting. It is a year since that report was commissioned, and more than a year since the documentary. That is a long time for them to wait.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Minister of State is probably aware of this but on Friday, 3 March, the climate movement will be back on the streets for the first time in a long time. I am delighted to see Extinction Rebellion and FridaysForFuture taking the climate crisis seriously and marching from Parnell Square at 12 noon to this House. I want to ask the Minister of State to please clarify for me and them the...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...the emergency needs of the citizens, both of the cities and the rural towns and areas in the country. The NAS is similarly way underfunded and understaffed and workers in that service have had quite a long struggle to get trade union recognition for the National Ambulance Service Representative Association, NASRA. We have been in this Chamber arguing for that trade union recognition...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...to keep doing this. The children have no space to play. These are small issues in the bigger scheme of things, but are huge for families. The environmental, psychological and social consequences are untold. They are long-term and people will be deeply affected by this. That is why the eviction ban must continue. Come 1 April – interestingly, April fools' day – there...

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: A long way to go.

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, even though they are condemning the behaviour of Ministers and of previous parties for upholding what was done to people in nursing homes and people with disabilities or in long-term care. It is a scandal and will be remembered by the population. I suspect the reason these Deputies are so strong in their condemnation is because they understand that the...

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: ..., which has been repeated in other cases. I will reference what the Disability Federation of Ireland, DFI, stated: The line taken by the State to stop the disability maintenance payment on admission to long-term care and the subsequent legal approach and lack of State action to address the discrepancy is particularly distressing when the people affected were often living with significant...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Anti-Racism Measures (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 72. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the long overdue national action plan against racism will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6071/23]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: First Stage (8 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...entirely decriminalise the provision of abortion. I commend the Bill to the House and look forward to cross-party support. I have a final point on the review of the abortion legislation, which is long overdue. I am sorry the Minister for Health has left the Chamber. The review of the abortion legislation should have been submitted to him by yesterday. He has given us no timeline for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Local Authorities (1 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: .... It is not right to treat communities like this. They are the heart of the city. Hundred of families are living in these conditions and although regeneration is promised, it takes far too long to deal with fundamental and basic health problems that these people face daily. What I want to tease out today is what the Government is going to do to insist that local authorities step up...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (18 Jan 2023)

Bríd Smith: 1896. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she intends to commit to the plans for a long-awaited community centre on the Tullow Road, Carlow; if her attention has been drawn to reports that the plans have been designed by the local authority and that a community consultation has taken place in an area that has one of the largest population densities in Carlow town and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...its brutal onslaught against women, mainly, but also the entire community. That regime is not acceptable and has to go. The Government should express its solidarity in some way, today and in the long term.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...effectiveness of her Department’s payroll system in light of reported issues from teachers regarding difficulty having changes made or mistakes rectified in salaries; the reason it is taking so long to have salary issues addressed and the difficulties for teachers trying to communicate with her Department; if she will specifically investigate the issues reported by a deputy...

Building Defects: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...were all about. It might be worth our while looking across the water to what happened in Britain post Grenfell where a tax was placed on the profits of the residential development industry. We need to look at a long-term tax on the industry's profits that is designed in a way that they cannot pass on the cost and that there is no escaping from it. In the meantime, it behoves the...

COP27: Statements (29 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...I want to highlight what I believe to be another major failure of COP27. This is the continued support for carbon markets and carbon trading as a mechanism to curb emissions. People Before Profit has long argued that the carbon trading system and the very idea of carbon credits is a set-up for fraud and utter failure. It is simply a medieval indulgence to allow for continued fossil fuel...

Transport in Galway and Other Areas: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...around the country, as I am, realises there are so many disused railway tracks around this country. They should never have been closed in the first place but as they have been, there should be a long-term attempt to reopen them and have positive effects on the greater region, especially in the west, to expand the vision of what our railway network could look like. I do not mean what it...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...with disabilities in this country. Other Deputies mentioned the exceptional needs payment. This will be part of the discussion with the family I am going to meet in the next day or two. In all of our experiences, we know the wait is way too long and the refusal rate is way too high. I have looked back at some parliamentary questions that Deputies around the House have asked about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sequestration and Land Management-Nature Restoration: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: This question is a bit like asking how long is a piece of string. It is worrying that we either need legislation or we need to incentivise farmers and those who live on the land in a proper way, and it does not seem that either of these things are being done. We seem to be hanging somewhere in the middle. Perhaps we need a bit of both approaches.