Results 221-240 of 8,013 for speaker:Bríd Smith

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: We represent public sector workers.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Three parties raised concerns, as did one individual.

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (Resumed) (30 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Clearly the Brexit vote has shaken the ruling elite in the European Union and beyond, with statements coming lately from President Obama. They are worried about the possibility of destabilising a cosy consensus among the ruling elite on a global, financial, capital arrangement they have, and on future projects that they hoped to create around battle groups incorporating an EU-wide army that...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (30 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 18. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on whether it is appropriate for his Department to insist persons who are unemployed are sent on training courses to an organisation (details supplied) that professes itself to operate with a Christian ethos; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18772/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (30 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 20. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he funds in any way an organisation (details supplied); and if so, if he is monitoring the success it has in helping persons currently unemployed achieve employment. [18771/16]

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: There has been considerable controversy in the past few days about the appointment of Mr. Joe O'Toole to the water commission. However, I thank Joe O'Toole for shining a light on the real objectives of the commission. His honesty in telling it like it is has been very useful to those of us who marched against and opposed water charges, as it is for the people who voted for a majority of...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: Tell me about it.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I do not know if the Taoiseach is doing a Mary Poppins on this but he is certainly not answering my question. I asked him about the structure and formation of the commission and I am objecting, on behalf of many people, to those I listed who were appointed to it because they are not impartial but are in fact partial towards a little bit of privatisation and a lot of charges. My question is...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I ask the Taoiseach how he decided the construct of such a commission, who gets to say that these doctors from outside the jurisdiction who are pro-privatisation can sit on this commission and that Joe O'Toole, who has made up his mind already, can be an impartial chairperson.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I wish the Taoiseach would answer my question.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: Who chose them?

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: It is anti-democratic and that is my objection to it.

Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I very much welcome the opportunity to have a debate rather than statements on the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation. I would have thought, however, having come this far, that the House would allow motions to be put on the legislation and vote on them, rather than just statements. Given that we have no democratic control over this important issue and...

Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I will ask a representative to do that.

European Council Meeting: Statements (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I want to focus my comments on the question of migration and refugees in Europe because history will have a lot to say about the current period and the way we are responding to it. Sometimes when we are in the thick of it we do not recognise the dramatic and profound impact it is having on the world in a particular space and time and on world history. The UNHCR tells us that we are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: 30. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to bring home a person (details supplied) from his detention in Egypt. [19410/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I know the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, has been asked this many times, but I ask him again to lay out in detail what his plans are to bring Ibrahim Halawa, an Irish citizen, home from his detention. This young man has been detained now for well over 1,000 days. Many people, including former prisoners from other countries, are openly asking whether the Irish Government is doing enough to get...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: It really is just not good enough. I quote to the Minister Peter Greste, who spent 400 days in prison and was at one stage Ibrahim's cell mate, who told Australian Al-Jazeera said that Ibrahim is simply not getting the same level of support as he did. He said he wondered whether it was because his name was Peter, not Ibrahim, in other words, that he was considered white, normal and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: Absolutely I would.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: I do have some advice and guidance. It is just not good enough. There needs to be a statement and a call from the Taoiseach directly to the Egyptian authorities. There needs to be a presidential decree that there should be a demand for his release. I also think we should recall the Egyptian ambassador, just as the Italian authorities have done after a young student disappeared and was...