Results 1-12 of 12 for lottery speaker:Bríd Smith

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...and the experience in particular of Irish people around the world when he sang: Thousands are sailing Again across the western ocean Where the hand of opportunity Draws tickets in a lottery. That is exactly what it is like for immigrants who want to work and who want to contribute to society. They move across the planet because of war, persecution, discrimination and,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Sep 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...the need to extend the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 to include removing the three-day wait, to decriminalise abortion and to ensure that the provision of abortion is not a lottery in this country and does not depend on where one lives or how much money one has in one's pocket?

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...to a certain cohort in limited circumstances. It is quite coincidental, as the Minister knows, that the Bill has been brought before the House on the fifth anniversary of repeal because of the lottery system we have. Nevertheless the Minister is right to say that if we match this with Marie O'Shea's report the Bill goes further. That is true. That does not mean if the Bill was dealt...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (29 Sep 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...her plans in relation to the current basic income for arts scheme; if applicants who were unsuccessful for the current scheme can reapply in the coming year; if any possible anomalies in the lottery system will be removed; if any assessment of artists' current income and circumstances such as risk of poverty will be taken into account concerning future plans for the scheme; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (16 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if unclaimed National Lottery winnings are subject to any oversight or monitoring by the Government in terms of the way and when they are spent; if he has plans to revisit previous agreements on the issue with the winning contractor for the national Lottery; when the current contract expires; if there are plans on the future of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...the six CHO areas provide an electricity subsidy for patients using full-time oxygen ventilation machines while others do not; his views on whether this practice effectively amounts to a postcode lottery for those needing support with electricity costs, which have spiralled, and for whom a decision to scale back on electricity usage is not an option; if this subsidy will be made available...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (19 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...provides the hot meals and the other school will be left behind. I concur with the points made by Deputy Murphy about the inequality of the system and the unfairness of running hot meals on a lottery rather than on where they are needed. That must be questioned in the wider scheme of things in terms of the need for this programme. The Minister for Social Protection, in her response...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (19 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...quality food to children should not just apply to those who are unable to be fed at home. It should be standard practice to provide for everybody and if that was the case, then the question of a lottery and of inequality in the delivery of such provision would not arise. As I said earlier, we would just be catching up with the rest of Europe.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (Resumed) (28 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...workers who are doing much better on the pandemic unemployment payment than they were before when they were working. One particularly notorious low-paying employer talked about workers having won the lottery. Like much of the former Taoiseach's stories, it is a myth but it serves a purpose. One has to ask oneself what purpose it serves. It tries to set one group of workers against the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Independent Expert Panel Review into Cervical Screening: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I am not making it anonymously. I am saying that Deputy O'Connell has said that it is not like a lottery that the two slides got mixed up. To say that it is an exaggeration.

Citizens' Assembly: Motion (13 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: ..., the point is to give this generation and the one behind it the opportunity to vote. I will make a comment on the make-up of the citizens' assembly. If the electoral register is going to be used for a lottery-style random selection of citizens, migrant workers will be excluded. This point has already been made by Deputy Coppinger. I reckon that a whole cohort of people who may...