Results 1-20 of 79 for cork speaker:Bríd Smith

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Bríd Smith: On the same theme, I was out earlier with Martin Leahy who comes up from Cork every Thursday to sing his song, "Everyone Should Have a Home", outside the Dáil. I want to let people know that on 18 April, after we return from the Easter break, it will be his 100th week. All of us who are concerned with homelessness and the crisis of immigration and the homelessness of immigrants should...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...with one another. They could certainly create a WhatsApp group for safe access zones whereby a Garda member could say they had warned Joe Bloggs or Mr. X in Kerry and that he turned up again in Cork. These people do that and are already doing it, but we have the experience of implementing zones that cannot be entered. It applies to elections, and all we are asking is that we do it for...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...civil servants in this House who earn too much to be on the social housing list but do not earn enough to live in apartments or houses that are costing €2,000 or €2,500 a month in cities like Dublin, Cork and Limerick, where they are meant to be for their jobs. They are being pushed and squeezed out, and many of them are ending up in homelessness. If they lose a tenancy...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: I suppose this is more of a comment that is probably going to go nowhere. I find it bizarre that, in 2023, gardaí did not have a way of knowing that this guy was in Cork and then he went to Kerry to protest in two different places on the same day. It is bizarre that they do not have a way of communicating that to each other. That means any bowsie could be doing anything, like robbing...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...protect women's right to access abortion services. The Minister is not comparing like with like. We are talking about a situation where a person tries to stop somebody else accessing services in Cork and then does the same in Dublin. It is not about that person accessing services; it is about stopping somebody else doing so. I do not accept the comparison. I find it bizarre that the...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...this Bill, to scupper that notion and look at the statistics, the facts and the research coming from many organisations, including local ones. Deputy Barry has just shared a quote with me from a Cork rape crisis centre. There is the national rape crisis centre and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. The vast majority of gender-based and sexual violence is committed and...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Sep 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...Ireland's weak and wanting local democracy. This Bill has been drafted in response to a plebiscite held in 2019 in which the people of Limerick narrowly agreed to a directly elected mayor, while Cork and Waterford rejected it. If this Bill passes Second Stage, People Before Profit will submit amendments that will ensure the people who put a mayor into power also have the power to remove...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...where abortion is provided. Such people currently have the freedom to move around and they do so. It has been noticed that some of the same characters seen outside the Dáil today and in the libraries in Cork last week were also at Inch the week before and burning refugees out of their tents in Sandwith Street. These guys move around, co-ordinate and avoid repeated arrest. Central...

Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2023: First Stage (27 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...a ban on any siting of liquified natural gas, LNG, terminals in the State. Incredibly, after three years of the Green Party being in government, we have the imminent threat of an LNG terminal being sited in either Cork or Shannon. Again, we need to challenge the narrative around gas and LNG head on. Gas is not a traditional, safe or bridge fuel and LNG terminals are not essential to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Liquefied Natural Gas and Oil Prospecting: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...important. Not only since the war in Ukraine but prior to that, I think there is a campaign in this country by certain vested interests to have LNG infrastructure, whether that be in Shannon or in Cork. We are now seeing that campaign continue in light of the new situation that is presented by the Ukraine war. I want to push back against that and ask Professor McMullin to reiterate the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...competing with the others? That is not helpful for transport, emissions or our plan for the future. On liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminals, the Business Post recently reported that the port of Cork has signed heads of agreement with a US firm to explore the possibility of setting up a floating LNG facility in Cork harbour. The answer may be - but it is not what I want to hear - that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: Is the Business Postright that the Port of Cork signed heads of agreement with a US firm?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (28 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...stop; if he will outline his Department’s and Dublin Bus’s plans to install both across Dublin city and county over the coming year; if Dublin Bus will consider installing both at stop 2380, Cork Street and Ardee Street servicing routes towards the city, in the same fashion as the stop directly opposite going in the opposite direction; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security Committee (1 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...for enforcement action after serious and repeated concerns were raised over discharges to local water sources. Of the five, four are in the meat or dairy sector, namely, Kepak Athleague, North Cork Co-Op Creameries, Aurivo Dairy Ingredients and Western Brand Group. The EPA has warned that breaches by food and drink firms threaten the so-called clean and green image of the sector which is...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (15 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Government supports the siting and building of LNG facilities in this State, specifically in Shannon and Cork in cases in which such facilities specify they will not use fracked gas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62709/22]

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...are a number of exceptions to getting the fuel allowance that are going to stand in the way of many people. One is if somebody lives with a person who is not on a qualifying payment. I know of the case of a blind man on an island off the coast of Cork who came to me because he knows me from the past. Somebody who lives with him and helps him has been refused carer's allowance. Now, he...

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

Bríd Smith: 41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has had any communication with the Port of Cork authorities in relation to their support for an LNG facility; if the authority is bound by Government policy in relation to the development of LNGs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55314/22]

Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...neoliberal model that was introduced in the early 2000s utterly failed. Not only are people faced with massive bills, but they are also now being told - we just heard the evidence of the Deputy from Cork, that we may be facing blackouts unless we ignore all the environmental and climate legislation that has been put in place heretofore. It is a tall order for the Minister of State, Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (25 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: 499. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a situation in a centre for Ukrainian refugees in Cork (details supplied), in which parents and their children have reported being very cold and requests to turn on the heating have been met with threats of eviction and foul language; the policy regarding heating in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (25 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will investigate allegations of unacceptable behaviour by management of a hostel for Ukrainian refugees (details supplied) in County Cork; if he will outline the person or body that is responsible for and the way oversight of these centres is being carried out and maintained; and if he will make a statement on the matter....