Category: Videos

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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Shameful record on refugess is slammed in the Dáil

Speaking to the Dáil, Bríd Smith TD outlined the record of our government. We promised to take 4,000 refugees, we agreed 500 under the Resettlement programme; so far we’ve taken 69 under the Relocation programme. 600 children alone, died so

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Bríd defends ASTI as Gaeilge

Brid interviewed by TG4, an Nuacht, Nov 1, defends the striking ASTI teachers

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Government plans for supporting An Post – split your head and give you a plaster!

Brid questions the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, 27 Oct – why do the government departments remove business from Post Offices while claiming to support them

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Walkinstown schoolkids protest ‘big numbers-tiny rooms’

Children, teachers and parents of the School of the Assumption in Walkinstown, this morning protested outside the school. Their issue is the fact that they will loose a teacher on Friday. Why? because they are loosing seven children from the

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