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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: They are mixed.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: Last night, on Virgin Media television, the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, said that local authorities should buy up premises where evictions are taking place. A mass eviction will take place at Tathony House on Bow Lane, Dublin 8, which is in my constituency. On Monday night, Dublin City Council addressed the issue because an emergency motion was brought before it by our councillor, Ms...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 15. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify the circumstances of a specific night flight at Dublin Airport which took place on 29-30 October 2022 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55708/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I thank Ms McMahon for her presentation. I totally agree with Deputy Hourigan on the analogy with Covid. I do not like it either and I do not think it serves us well here, not because of the Es, because what gardaí do well is educate, enforce and so on, but because the Covid legislation was rigid emergency legislation brought in to try to contain a pandemic and on an understandably...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: It is just an observation. I just found it unusual. I will focus on the comparison with polling stations. I have been warned by gardaí many times about activity near polling stations, particularly in the early days of the implementation of the legislation. Contrary to what Ms McMahon said, there was not a general understanding that one could not canvass or poster within 50 m of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: To correct the record, I am not taking offence in that manner. I would like the PULSE system to be changed to call it something other than a pro-life protest because I do not think it is fair to us. I want to talk about the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act. I do not know from her submission whether Ms McMahon thinks An Garda Síochána needs more powers to search and go into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: Okay, I will come back to Dr. McNamara on two points and then I will stop. My point with regard to the curtilage is that members of the Garda do not have a problem. The ordinary garda on the beat does not have a problem about the curtilage around a polling station. They are immediately on top of people who go over the 50 m limit. Members of the Garda understand what the curtilage is in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: What does the Electoral Act say? Is it 50 m?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: Somebody said 50 m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I had no idea; I just do what the gardaí tell me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I want to tease this out. At the meeting Dr. McNamara had with the Department, did he suggest or did the Department suggest that we look at the Electoral Act and compare it to the polling stations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: It might be useful for us to suggest that to the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I forget my second question so I will stop.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: The problem is, however, that the funding of human rights groups and countries that suffer the most, although it is important, will not deal with the problem of the rising CO2levels in the atmosphere. The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has increased from 358 parts per million in 1994 to 415 parts per million today. The Minister and I understand this is hugely problematic and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 7. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will be attending the COP27 conference in Egypt; if his attention has been drawn to the grave human rights abuses of environmentalists and climate campaigners by the Egyptian state; if he will meet with representatives of human rights organisations while there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55315/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: On Friday, young people in Fridays for Future, student organisations and Extinction Rebellion will gather outside the House as part of global action on COP27. They will not be praising the Taoiseach or the Minister for action but will be commenting on inaction. They will be carrying clocks with them to symbolise the fact we are running out of time. They are also very aware that COP27 is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Minister. I want to mention the highest-profile political prisoner in Egypt, Alaa Abd el-Fattah. He has been on hunger strike since April. He has been languishing in jail for ten years because he was an activist and an environmentalist. Since he took over the regime, el-Sisi has built a dozen prisons in ten years. There are 60,000 activists locked up. This week many people...

Home Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: I will follow on from what Deputy Kenny talked about. I know him a long time and knew him when he was a young fellow doing this sort of care work. I know the pride with which he did his job and the type of people he looked after for long periods. He looked after people with whom he built up relationships. There were people who were wheelchair-bound and people who suffered with their...

Creeslough, County Donegal: Statements (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: A month ago today, the images that flashed across our screens and were transmitted on social media left us all feeling cold and anxious about what had happened and what it was all about. Looking at local people moving through rubble with their bare hands and local contractors moving in machinery and refusing to stop working until they completed the rescue operation was reminiscent of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Generation (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 15. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has examined a recent report on offshore wind energy (details supplied); if recent withdrawals by named corporations from projects confirm the necessity of direct state involvement in offshore wind development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55318/22]