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Bríd challenges Varadkar on pensions inequality

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

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.

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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Admission to schools Bill – Bríd argues remove the baptismal ban now.

In the Dáil yesterday Bríd argued for full equality in the Admissions to Schools Bill, urging the Minister to remove the baptismal ban, which allows schools to discriminate against children who are not baptised into the Catholic faith. Education is a

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Support for formal recognition of Irish sign language

Brid speaking in support of Bill for formal recognition of Irish sign language

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Immediate action needed – Legalise it!

  Brid seeks immediate action on Deputy Gino Kenny’s Bill on ‘Cannabis for medicinal use’, to alleviate pain and suffering.

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Pensioners (in particular females) will loose, not gain, from Budget 2017

Bríd explains how the government, by changing the rules, will take more from pensioners than it gives them, particularly female pensioners. She annouced her intention to propose an amendment that will go some way towards addressing the injustice done to

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No privatisation of water – not now, nor in the future!

Bríd speaks in the Dail, Nov 9, 2016, supporting the bill for a referendum on the privatisation of water services now and  into the future and places the issue in an international and global context

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Public and Private sector workers both need pay increases

TV3 Sunday Nov 6 2016, Brid defends the rights of both public and private sector workers to pay increases or pay restoration, and says both groups of workers have more in common than deviding them

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Brid Smith TD speaking in the Dail on the purchase of sex

  Brid speaking against a bill that proposes criminalising those who buy sex, arguing it would drive prostituion further underground and that it would put sex-workers, who are already vulnerable, in a worse situation. We should instead consult with the

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