TnaG interviewed Deputy Brid Smith regarding water charges – guess what she said!
They can commission all the reports they like, and Fianna Fail can be for and against at the same time, in their usual two-faced way, but bottom line is what I said on the news tonight. We are not paying…
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.
Brid endorses an amendment to Social Welfare Bill 2016. The costs incurred by the State should be returned to the State, by an employer who acts illegally regarding unfair dismissals, as many do.
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.
Brid slates the US president elect and his appointees, and asks Kenny how low does Trump have to get before we renounce him.
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…
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.
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…
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…
