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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...the next stage of its murderous onslaught in Rafah. There are no words to describe the horrendous outcome we may see where 1.5 million Palestinian people are under bombardment in a small area of land. In the midst of this horrendous scene, it is heartening and uplifting to see students at Trinity College Dublin taking action to insist on divestment, sanctions and an end to co-operation...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (30 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 497. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide, in tabular form, by month and nationality, the number of people who have been refused permission to land in the past 12 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19048/24]

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

Bríd Smith: ...-new information to us that there is asbestos in the hospital. Until now, all we have been told is that the State does not own it. It is owned by the HSE, which, it transpires, is the biggest land hoarder in the State, with over 300 empty properties, some of which I know of in my constituency. People have been described as racists and there are those who are trying to stir up trouble,...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...We are not messing. Although all of our motion is important, a serious issue that I want to touch on is the question of Shannon. US troops have been going through Shannon frequently. US warplanes land there but, as has been pointed out, we never use the opportunity to examine those planes or run tests on them to see what is being transported. However, we do know that US military aid...

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

Bríd Smith: ...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 because a landlord wants to sell up and puts them out of their home, they are not on a low enough income to get on the housing list. They do not receive HAP or any other social income...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...is odd that having identified the forestry policy as one of the multiple pressures on nature, the motion does not explain why a commercial monoculture policy that has planted an invasive species on lands and bogs for commercial profit has damaged nature here, or why the State's forestry arm, Coillte, is one of the greatest forces for harm to nature and how its latest deal with Gresham...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 379. To ask the Minister for Finance if he can clarify (details supplied) in relation to the residential zoned land tax. [27918/23]

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...in the Green Party, that such a common-sense approach is greeted with outrage and anger. How dare we interfere with the market and with private property rates, is what we constantly hear. When the landed gentry here, masquerading as representatives of ordinary people, cry foul over interference with private property, what they mean is that we should not interfere with their right to...

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...the Government in Private Members' time to try to highlight and deal with an absolute catastrophe. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have for decades neglected the provision of public housing on public lands. They have left the provision of the country's housing needs in the hands of private developers, builders, landlords, financial interest groups, banks, estate agents, real estate...

Annual Emission Allocation Units Purchase Agreement: Motion (28 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...continue to rise. Far from reaching the inadequate targets that were set for reductions, this Government is overseeing an increase in emissions. This week, as reported by the Business Post, we find that Ireland is a virtual shadow land. A strange virtual reality exists here. Not only are we a tax haven for corporations and banks and not only do we operate a shadow banking sector and a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...is on hillside farmers rather than on the damage done by that industry. It suggests a certain preoccupation in the law with those who live in the areas that are least offensive, including peatland areas and hills, etc. While I accept those areas need to be rewetted and it is very important, there is an imbalance in the way the legislation is looking at them rather than the biggest...

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...nation equally". The Proclamation refers to "all of the children" but Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Green Party and some Independents seem confused. The Proclamation did not say cherish all of the landlords of the nation equally. We are hearing more and more demands to stop demonising landlords, to give them more tax breaks to halt their exodus, while at the same time here we are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...is not the norm in Europe; Lorcan Sirr said so on radio this morning and we have repeatedly made that argument in this House. People need fixity of tenure. That is an age-old demand of the Land League and we still have not achieved it after 100 years of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael rule this State. The Government needs to look at the legislation and maintain the ban on no-fault...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...eviction ban. He said it was complicated, that the Attorney General will have to be consulted, that legal opinions will have to be sought and that a balance must be struck between the rights of landlords and of tenants. The real solution, he again told us, is supply. I will help him. My clinic, like that of every Deputy in this House, including the Minister's Fianna Fáil and Fine...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: .... The Bon Secours order, which was responsible for a significant amount of this pain, hurt and abuse, is the biggest provider of private healthcare in the country and has lots of coffers, land and profits and we are still looking at a meagre system of redress that excludes almost 40% of the people who suffered under this system. The Minister is signalling a complete failure of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Local Authorities (1 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...way, they are beautiful buildings, designed by Herbert George Simms. They would have won prizes back in the day. However, there have been hints from the council that these flats might go to the Land Development Agency. The LDA would love to flatten them because Emmet Buildings is surrounded by 12- and 14-storey high-rise vulture fund built accommodation. These are either aparthotels,...

Building Defects: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...Fáil and Fine Gael to treat builders and developers with kid gloves, allow them to self-regulate and, therefore, put these people into this position. Those parties do not stop there. They have rezoned lands for them and they have more or less married the developer and the building industry in a way that is shocking and unbelievable. We must move away from that legacy. The...

Abuse at Certain Educational Institutions: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...and State. We doubled down on it recently with the move of the National Maternity Hospital from Holles Street to St. Vincent's. Many of our hospitals are still under the control of religious orders on land owned by those orders and are subject to Canon Law and Catholic ethos. In recent years, Catholic religious orders worldwide have transferred their assets into Vatican-approved...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sequestration and Land Management-Nature Restoration: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...based on having read one of the submissions and I have completely different questions now. I have found the meeting interesting. This is all connected. We seem to be in trouble with our land use and we urgently need to do something. I appreciate the optimism, particularly from Dr. Moran, about how we can do this and what we can do. I would like to share it but I am a little more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sequestration and Land Management-Nature Restoration: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: This question is a bit like asking how long is a piece of string. It is worrying that we either need legislation or we need to incentivise farmers and those who live on the land in a proper way, and it does not seem that either of these things are being done. We seem to be hanging somewhere in the middle. Perhaps we need a bit of both approaches.