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Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am sure the Minister read the article by Fintan O'Toole at the time the Tuam babies scandal broke last year in which he said:The abusive relationship between church, State and society may, like the dead babies that have haunted us in recent weeks, be buried beneath the surface of our postmodern globalised reality. But its consequences still lurk in our bloodstream and until we understand...

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (1 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: To back up what has been said already, I believe the investigation and the widening of the terms of reference have to take more of a turn of an investigation of criminal proportions. I previously read into the Dáil record and will read again what I believe illustrates in horrible terms the attitude of the church of the day to the mother and baby homes and to small children who were born...

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: Amendment No. 3 in my name and in the names of my colleagues in People Before Profit-Solidarity states: To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following:“notes:— that maternity hospitals are not just for supporting women through childbirth but should provide the full range of reproductive health services, with due respect to the...

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

Bríd Smith: I welcome the motion and congratulate Deputy Catherine Martin on tabling it. I attended today's briefing and some very moving and emotive circumstances apply to these people, some of whom have come into the Gallery. Obviously, we support the motion and regard such extension of maternity leave as a very practical aid for families and particularly mothers dealing with a traumatic time in...

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: The motion is comprehensive, well thought out and ticks every box in terms of how the victims and survivors of this terrible debacle should be dealt with and how we try to get at the truth. I note with interest the reference to South Africa, Chile, Australia and Canada. These states secretly carried out butchery and genocide, and engaged in cruelty against generations of people. The same...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...of women or medical practitioners who may seek to procure an abortion in this country. On both occasions, parliamentary legal advice - not external legal advice or advice from a solicitor to whom my party and I would go to ask for an opinion - has been that it would be unconstitutional because of the eighth amendment. Here, I rest my case. What we really need and the only thing that...

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: The Bon Secours hospitals are the biggest private health provider in this country. They have an accumulated profit of €74 million and have on their hands the bones of the dead children of Tuam. If we are serious about putting behind us the legacy of what happened in the mother and baby homes, the very least we should ask this order to do is disband and write itself out of the history...

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...Hospital in Limerick welcoming the new addition to the Bon Secours empire, the biggest private hospital empire in this country. I argue that this empire was built on the bones of the dead Tuam babies. I am sick of listening to Ministers - including the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, on radio at the weekend - saying that we are all...