Results 81-100 of 361 for long speaker:Bríd Smith

Annual Transition Statement: Statements (15 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: .... In May, we found out that the oil and gas industry took advantage of the war in Ukraine to spread misinformation about the causes of the energy crisis to apply political pressure and to pursue a long-standing wish list of policy changes. This is according to a report by InfluenceMap. The website DeSmog.comreported oil executives and lobbies conducing a public relations blitz in the...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...State's tax coffers and probably even defeat Putin into the bargain. Apparently, Providence oil and gas has a miraculous quality that makes it different from other oil and gas companies. Not long ago, I was accused of hypocrisy by one of these climate warriors because I drive a diesel van. However, it turns out that once my diesel van and everyone else's diesel van runs on Providence...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...he described it, of the war in Ukraine and the extraordinary inhumanity being imposed by Russian forces on the people of Ukraine. I ask him to perform a very simple act of solidarity that would go a long way towards alleviating that horror. There are tens of thousands of Ukrainian people living in Poland, having fled Ukraine since the start of the war. Many are women who have been raped...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell (24 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...need to be answered by the State and the justice system. I hope the scoping exercise has attempted to answer many of those questions. However, if the Attorney General sits on the report for a long period, how will we in this House manage to push forward a result on behalf of Shane's family and, indeed, on behalf of all the families who are watching these kinds of inquiries because they,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell (24 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...justice for the O'Farrell family. This delay is compounding that injustice and I ask the Minister to give the House a clear timeframe on the delivery of that scoping report, which is way too long overdue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...and nothing has happened. Perhaps if one of those Opposition Bills had been passed, the Department might have been quicker to implement what young people require rather than seeing this as a long and drawn-out process. As I mentioned, four years ago we saw the first recommendation on this coming from the Citizens' Assembly on the eighth amendment and the Oireachtas committee. We still...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...given to look at what additional safeguards could be added. That question remains. What additional safeguards can be added? I am standing here because I am sore sitting. We have been sitting at long meetings about this issue all week. I will sit at more of them next week and the week after if necessary. But we have to make progress. The progress we have to make has to be based on a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 249. To ask the Minister for Health if he will acknowledge how severely ill those who develop long Covid can become; if the matter will be addressed; if he will offer protection from reinfection by providing access to treatments (details supplied); if he will increase access to new diagnostic testing which is available in parts of Europe and South Africa; if he will provide the most...

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

Bríd Smith: I am substituting for Deputy Gino Kenny. I thank all the witnesses for the work they do and for coming along here today. I have to say that I feel that we are in the middle of something really weird. Drip-fed bits of information keep coming at us, as elected politicians. We are not getting the full truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. For example, the Minister has just...

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

Bríd Smith: ...such confidence that she can guarantee the future of women's healthcare in terms of abortion in this country. Nobody in the United States can guarantee it for women in America and they have had it long, long before we have had it. While I have a minute, I want to thank Professor Deirdre Madden and Dr. Sarah McLoughlin for their statement this morning. They have been hugely courageous...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...early 2000s, we had a slogan: "No blood for oil". I hope we are not now seeing blood for gas. This geopolitical struggle and the attempt to flood US gas into Europe is something we will regret in the long run. As the Centre for International Law has said, there is no silver bullet for solving the climate crisis but there is a smoking gun, and that is fossil fuels. We have to focus....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...hide behind the fact that we have a housing crisis etc. That leads me into my next question on the Housing for All plan by the Government. It was mentioned that there needs to be a medium and long-term consideration of accommodation for victims within that plan. How do witnesses think that can happen and what sort of measures would they envisage going into the Housing for All plan to...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...we took action on banning plastics, which was about a year ago, it was to ban all plastic cutlery. Voilà, I have here exhibit A. The little plastic fork I hold in my hand is sold in this House along with fruit. I thought we had banned plastic cutlery. A lot of stuff goes under the radar. I am not the big police chief of plastic but I am passionately concerned that we produce and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 745. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the financial and employment contributions that non-European Union students have made during long periods of study in this country; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many students would welcome the opportunity to obtain long-term residency stamp 4 visas in recognition of these contributions given...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: 1039. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the occupational therapy in the long-Covid clinic at St. James's Hospital is being discontinued in April 2022 (details supplied); if he will provide funding to keep occupational therapy in the clinic; if will he further invest in a nationwide network of multidisciplinary long-Covid clinics to ensure that Ireland has the capacity and...

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...;il in 2016, I and my colleagues here have had countless constituents coming to us in exasperation and despair about trying to get their children the care and supports they need. The first obstacle in a long list is the assessment of needs process. Those who are forewarned can simply go private or, most often, struggle to do so. Those who cannot go private will languish on waiting...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (8 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...agree that energy costs will continue to rise, and rise severely? Does he believe that this €200 subsidy to each household will be enough? I would argue that a lot more will need to be done for long-term alleviation of the problem. Has the Minister thought about looking at methods that other countries, such as Poland and Spain, have brought in? Those countries have capped the...

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...who needs care. These people are waiting for treatment that would be life changing were they to receive it. Some people, such as the 649 children awaiting orthopaedic surgery who were highlighted recently, are waiting so long that their condition may become inoperable, and often they are condemned to live a life unnecessarily blighted by illness and pain. The spina bifida paediatric...