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Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 Report: Motion (16 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: He got it wrong.

Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 Report: Motion (16 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I thank Deputy Martin Kenny for sharing time. As we come up to Christmas, in areas like Ballyfermot, where I live, and other large working-class communities, moneylenders will be seen knocking on the doors of workers. In the past, they would have been trying the doors of the very poorest, those locked into long-term unemployment. This year, however, they will get a positive response from...

Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 Report: Motion (16 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I did too. I was going to say, "It's not you Mick."

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2017: First Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2017: First Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development Act 1960 to provide for a prohibition of the issuing of licences for the exploration and extraction of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Coal as an emergency measure to address the levels of atmospheric Co2. I thank the House for giving me the opportunity to introduce this Bill....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I also thank the Irish Family Planning Association for the role it has played and for the provision of women's reproductive health in Ireland. The service has been around a long time. I used it in the 1980s during much darker days for women in terms of accessing reproductive health care. I was afraid to go to my doctor to ask for a coil or the morning after pill and I shared such fear with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: Deputy Clare Daly and others teased out the issue of discrimination against women in terms of being able to access proper heath care. Can Dr. Henchion comment on the number of women with disabilities or in direct provision or asylum seekers whom she sees and whether they are further discriminated against and, if so, how?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: What is the position for people with disabilities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I thank Ms Donlon for her presentation. We are discussing socioeconomic status and disadvantage in the context of women and the choices they make. Looking at the Positive Options website and the clinics that provide counselling services - which the HSE funds - I counted 32 or 33 locations but Ms Donlon says it is 40 and I accept that. I did not look at the geographical spread in respect of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is also the point that one third of all the counselling services the programme funds are represented by these agencies which say they do not talk about abortion. Is that not an anomaly given the role of the crisis pregnancy programme? It funds counselling services that look at all three options, namely parenting, adoption and abortion, but one third of services, whether in rural or urban...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (15 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 44. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the situation and staffing at a facility (details supplied). [48152/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (15 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 61. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the recruitment of line staff in the public health service particularly general hospital nursing staff; and his plans to retain newly qualified staff going forward. [48153/17]

Multi-Party Actions Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: Every time I hear the expression, "the tracker mortgage scandal", I cannot help thinking of the advertisement that was used to get people to buy into tracker mortgages. There are a dozen people sitting on an Imp bus going through the city of Dublin saying to each other out loud, "I don't know what a tracker mortgage is." It turns out the bankers did not seem to know what a tracker mortgage...

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I want to respond to what Deputy Kate O'Connell has just said. I am a member of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution alongside the Deputy. We are dealing with a situation where women, including me and others in the House, are being exiled from the country to obtain a medical procedure. Now we are looking at a Bill that tries to deal with a situation where...

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: Those Deputies did not come in for ages. We were in the queue long before them.

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: We were queuing by the Chair and were told to sit down.

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I do not.

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I am not. I have only been here a short time.

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: An bhfuil cead agam dul amach go dtí an leithreas?

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: That should include Government speakers.