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Bríd speaks in Dáil on housing and rent controls

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Cluid have raised people’s rents with little control or regulation from the Govt. We need to be able to control what agency’s do when using public money and of course we need a lot more public housing in the first…

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Brid Smith TD queries unfair rent hikes by housing associations. Dáil 13.7.17

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I queried the very unfair method used by housing associations, specifically Cluid Housing, for setting rents. Some have rent rises up to 38%. The associations receive hefty state funding, so the government needs urgently to sort this out

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Bríd on bin charges – issues raised in Dáil

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Bin price hikes raised in Dail; The new panda contract shows whats happening; price hikes and fines

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Brid Smith TD: demanding justice for women pensioners. Dáil July 5.17

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I raised the issue of pension equality today in the Dáil. If the issue is not adequately and speedily addressed, there are many, many women in this country who are prepared to take to the streets and the government knows…

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Brid Smith speaking in the Dail, July 5, on bin charges.

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BIN CHARGES: ‘DIG DEEPER IN YOUR POCKET’…THE CHEEK OF THEM! I spoke in the Dail last night and reminded the Minister of the rotten history of these charges…privatisation, loss of waivers, increasing costs and illegal dumping, and crucially – the…

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Bríd on Dáil Jobs committee

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WE HAVE MORE DOG WARDENS THAN LABOUR INSPECTORS. I’m on the Dail committee that deals with jobs. I spoke today on the underlying reasons for the abuse of foreign workers, especially those outside the EU. Government’s policies make them appear…

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Brid Smith TD in the Dail 29.6.17 on Clery’s and industrial relations laws

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JOBSTOWN DEFENDANTS and CLERY’S BOSSES. What have they got in common? Very little – a point I made today in the Dáil. Jobstown defendents could have ended up with a Life sentence – the State spent millions trying to frame…

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FEMPI – THE NEVER ENDING EMERGENCY:Brid Smith TD in the Dail 29.6.17

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Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest  OR FEMPI is now the longest lasting piece of emergency legislation in the history of the State – despite the ‘recovery’. And the government wants to make it permanent. FEMPI ensures discrimination against…

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Brid Smith TD speaking in the Dáil on the appointment of judges

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There’s a Bill before the Dáil about changing the way judges are appointed, which is by each other, and by the establishment political parties (though they like to pretend otherwise). We want a role for lay people in the process…

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Brid Smith TD: HELL-BENT ON PUTTING WILD-LIFE AT RISK. WHY?

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This was my second time to address the proposed Bill by Heather Humphries FG, which would extend the time for burning off heather and gorse in the countryside. It carries enormous risk to our natural heritage, our tourist potential and…

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