Results 61-79 of 79 for cork speaker:Bríd Smith

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...course, we care about the people who inhabit the area. We were one of the chief organisations to mount that protest over the harvesting of kelp in Bantry Bay. Our branch of People Before Profit in west Cork got stuck in there and helped to organise that because we care about the environment and the relationship people in this country have with it. The Minister and her Department clearly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (22 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...before it embarks on trying to meter homes again. That is lethal and it will certainly not win the hearts and minds of people in bigger communities, certainly in Dublin. I imagine it is the same in Cork.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Data (16 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: 586. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum seekers to be located in the cities and counties of Dublin, Cork, Galway, Waterford and Sligo in 2018. [1672/18]

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...of weather. It affected people in areas such as Clondalkin, Drimnagh, Donnycarney, Coolock, Finglas, Dún Laoghaire and in places with which I am not so familiar, such as Togher and Ballyphehane in Cork. They mobilised and organised to protest. Furthermore, they mobilised and organised on an estate and road-by-road basis to ensure every member of the community would be aware of the...

Heritage Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...to being advantageous to our own population in terms of enjoying what the planet has to offer. I noticed that a new pathway has opened up that ranges from the glens of Antrim down to the Beara Way in west Cork. This is 900 km of walkways that will be something like Ireland's Camino. Can one imagine the kind of beauty and wildlife this walkway will pass through that will be vulnerable if...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...we will remain here to challenge them on this. The only thing the Taoiseach can agree on with Fianna Fáil is to try and shut us up on this side of the House. Everything does not happen in here. It also happens outside. On Saturday, thousands of women and men will gather in Galway, Cork and Dublin to demand the repeal of the eighth amendment. Thousands will also gather to demand...

Residential Tenancies (Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...because it illustrates clearly the gap between what is being paid to recipients of housing assistance payment and the rents the market is demanding, particularly in bigger cities like Dublin and Cork. As other Deputies said, on a daily basis we are dealing with families that are extremely stressed out because they are about to be evicted by landlords who are selling their properties and...

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: ..., and I will stand over that statement. The National Transport Authority, for which the Taoiseach's Cabinet has responsibility, has deliberately swamped the main bus routes between the cities, such as Dublin-Limerick, Dublin-Cork, Dublin-Galway etc., with private operators. It has over-licensed beyond capacity and beyond 100% of what is needed. At the same time, this Government and the...

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...reconsider its position and disband. It has no moral authority to remain an order in this country. To that end, I call on all communities in which there are Bon Secours utilities - in Limerick, Cork, Cavan, Dublin and Tralee - to stand outside those hospitals at 6 p.m. this Friday in a dignified protest, bearing white ribbons in memory of these children and calling on the order to...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Bríd Smith: The reason they are lying on trolleys is the same reason 90% of nurses voted today to go on strike. Nurses are emigrating because they cannot afford to live in this city or in Cork, Galway or Limerick. We have lost 5,500 fully trained nurses in the last few years because they cannot afford to live here and do not want to work in the extremely stressful conditions they are exposed to in this...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (14 Dec 2016)

Bríd Smith: As early as last month, Simon Coveney said in an interview in the Cork Examinerthat this Government will not be introducing rent controls.

Prisons (Solitary Confinement) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...realignment of the resources and cutbacks on hours. Many families travel long distances. Again, they come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and they cannot afford to travel up from Dublin or Cork up and down Castlerea on trains, buses, or cars. When they visit their loved ones, they try to spend the entire day there - a few hours in the morning and evening - but they are being...

Local Government Reform (Amendment) (Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...manager, makes the decisions in that regard. Local councillors no longer have any power over the issues of bins, street cleaning, waste management or incineration, a very important issue in the cities of Dublin and Cork. This is ironic when it was Noel Dempsey of Fianna Fáil who brought in an amendment to the Waste Management Act 1996 to give complete power to the manager or to make...

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...Ministers trot out the same rhetoric time after time. A couple of weeks ago, the Minister reiterated the Government's commitment to rural post offices. Since then, on 3 November a local newspaper in Cork, The Corkman, quoted a fourth-generation postmaster, Mr. Henry Keogh, who says that he will be the last such postmaster in Rockchapel because the post office is no longer viable. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...a very important point. Many of the people involved would have a free travel pass and would not have to pay. Will the increased privatisation of routes impact on access to centres of excellence in Dublin, Waterford, Cork etc. for people with disability or old age passes and who have cancer or other ailments,? That is an issue for the public in general. Can Mr. Coyne explain why he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...this country and not at the rate of the cost of living index. The cost of insurance has increased by 40% or 50%. The latest report from daft.ieshows that rents have increased by 12% in places such as Dublin and Cork. How does the Minister explain low-paid workers being offered an extra 10 cent per hour? None of us in this House is working for that kind of money nor would we. Edel...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...collar just to have their bins collected. This is outrageous and must be illegal. We need a waste management sub-committee to look at this and the planned building of incinerators in Poolbeg and Cork. This issue is pressing and we need to deal with it. Somebody needs to grab these companies, bring them in and tell them that they cannot bring in a 200% or 300% cost increase for...

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: I congratulate people in every town, townland, village and city, including Dublin, Cork, Limerick, and on every housing estate who for the past four years have put their shoulders to the wheel and fought tirelessly to see this day come. Irish Water and water charges may not have been abolished, but we are witnessing the beginning of the end. Although we have not gone the whole nine yards,...

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Bríd Smith: I echo what has been said by Deputy Coppinger. What has happened in Tyrrelstown and Cork is a predictable outcome of the activities of NAMA and, I would argue, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan. The Government set out deliberately to attract corporate investment funds with tax incentives. The Sunday before the general election, The Sunday Business Postreported this was coming...