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Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: I am sharing time with Deputy Mick Barry.

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: What did you call me?

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: In that case, I thank Bríd for her contribution. More seriously, the last point the Minister of State made about the optional protocol was very much Civil Service-speak. I refer to this being a matter of complexity, the need to progress the issue, have meetings and all the rest of it. How many years have disability campaigners, like those outside the gates now, been campaigning?...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (17 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the apartment blocks and duplexes in Dublin South-Central currently eligible for the interim remediation scheme for the funding of emergency fire safety defect works; when the legislation to support the remediation of defects in apartments and duplexes will be introduced; and if he will...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: Could I not take half a minute?

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: So the Ceann Comhairle wants me to shut up now and come back and do six minutes tomorrow.

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: Would it be okay to speak for two minutes now and not come back tomorrow?

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: Compared to an hour, two minutes is nothing.

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: My very last point is on the retired workers themselves. I have introduced a Bill to amend the Industrial Relations Act to give retired workers the right to be represented where their pensions have been interfered with. It is shocking to think that they can say nothing, as happened during the austerity years to all our public sector workers, particularly those in the semi-States. In goes...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: As my mother used to say, brave are the chancers. You are some chancer.

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: This is something I have been talking about on behalf of various workers since I came in in 2016 and as workers' spokesperson for People Before Profit. There has been a real war on pensions, particularly defined benefit pensions, over the past ten years or so. The narrative is that we are living too long, and we cannot afford this, so we have to tackle it. Therefore, instead of longevity...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 26. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent Munich Security Conference. [15187/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will next meet. [15186/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [15185/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: We echo the call for a debate on the European migrant pact, obviously for different reasons. We do think we have to have the debate. The issue I want to raise is the question of the use of Shannon Airport by the US military. I was there on Sunday at a protest. There is great concern in the country about the escalating and increased use of Shannon Airport by US military flights. As the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: I did not accuse the Taoiseach of not doing anything. He failed to regulate-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: Marie O'Shea has said courage is needed. Will the Taoiseach use his famous slogan about new energy to implement a review immediately?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: I do not think it is fair to frame the history of what happened to the Bill as there somehow being a minority voting for it. Only approximately nine Deputies abstained that day. There was not a huge number of Deputies abstaining. I want to pick up on a few things the Taoiseach said. The 28-day limit is really the crucial thing in terms of how fatal foetal anomalies are treated and in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: I repeat my contention that the Government is sitting on its hands.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: On the Taoiseach's first day of Leaders' Questions, it is quite a coincidence that he is being questioned by both the previous speaker and me on the abortion legislation. Last night's programme exposed the ongoing denial of abortion rights to a significant number of women in this country six years after repeal. It was interesting that it opened with a clip of the Taoiseach in Dublin Castle...