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The brown envelope brigade fights back!

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Amazing how upset FF and FG got in the Dáil today when reminded of their ‘brown envelope’ past. €150 million of taxpayers money went on the Mahon tribunal and how many corrrupt politicians got done? One. At the very least…

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Real risks ignored in National Plan

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Brid questioned the Taoiseach about some real risks ignored in the Draft National Risks Assessment Plan, especially in the light of Trump’s election. She focusses on two issues, climate change and multinational corporations and argues that we greatly underestimate the…

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Pension inequality – a serious issue to be addressed

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Brid insisted on revisiting this issue because many pensioners, most of them women, stand to loose about 30 Euros per week in pension entitlements if the government is let get away with their plan to discriminate on an planned ‘ageist’…

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Unfair ‘unfair dismissals’ laws and the Dunnes Stores strike.

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Brid offers an example – an historic case of the Dunnes Stores strike 30 years ago – where unfair ‘unfair dismissals’ practices were used against the shop steward Karen Gearon.

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Bríd begs for IMMEDIATE intervention to save Ibrahim Halawa

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There is the opportunity in the next 2 days, to get Ibrahim Halawa released from unjust detention, if our Taoiseach wills it. Bríd Smith TD begged him to do so in the Dáil today.

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Democratise the council before making a new Lord Mayor job!

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The Greens and FF Bill want a new job created – elected Lord Mayor – this was debated. Brid argued that this is putting the cart before the horse – democratise the council first, then worry about a lord mayor.…

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Caligula’s horse was better than Trump’s appointees!

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Brid slates the US president elect and his appointees, and asks Kenny how low does Trump have to get before we renounce him.  

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Bríd challenges Varadkar on pensions inequality

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Leo Varadkar has no real answers when Brid pushes him on the unfair way in which he stands over pensions inequality planned for in the Social Welfare Bill 2016. This exchange was on the Select Committee on Social Protection, Nov…

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Defending women rights against bigotry in the Dáil

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Brid responds to attacks upon the services available to women regarding contraception and abortion advice in the Dáil, and reiterates the call to repeal the eigth amendment.

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Save our Services! Rural post offices under threat.

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Bríd reiterates the importance of rural post offices to their local communities and the vital social role they play. She points out there are initiatives that could be taken, for instance a role in local banking services, that would ensure…

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