Results 41-60 of 109 for destroyed speaker:Mick Wallace

European Council: Statements (27 Mar 2013)

Mick Wallace: ...because otherwise, no one would put their money in banks. Shareholders and bondholders may be investors and speculators but depositors are not. The plan is to take the depositors' money, thereby destroying all confidence and the presumption of security or insurance, in the language of these politicians, in order to recapitalise and restructure our banks. Translated into simple English,...

Topical Issue Debate: Prison Committals (21 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...these countries were being invaded in order to bring democracy and nation building to them but the bombs dropped on Kabul, Baghdad and Tripoli did not build much. They did not replace what they destroyed and they did not replace the people they killed. Sadly, we have played a part in bringing this about. Margaretta D'Arcy has been put in jail at the age of 79 years for highlighting that...

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...to Malta, I suggest that if the Government is seriously concerned about refugees, the first thing it should do is stop allowing Shannon Airport to be used by the US military as an airbase from which to destroy communities worldwide. I remind the House that 2.1 million citizens have been killed by US military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. Many of the troops who killed those...

Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (3 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...Chechnya. The Russians raped and absolutely pillaged the place and the US and the EU had no problem with it. Can the Minister of State not see that they play games with this stuff and lives get destroyed? We are taking sides now. Why are we not neutral? I have no time for how Putin or Russia behaves nor do I have time for how the US behaves. We should not take sides with either of them.

Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...Europe is something I find hard to take, given the reasons that they want to come here. Sadly, we too have played a part. People want to come to Europe because we have gone to their countries and destroyed them. They are being driven out of their homes through economic policies, trade tariffs and military intervention. 3 o’clock More than 33 million people have been...

Palestine: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Dec 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...Israel could carry out genocide to the extent that it does in Gaza was because the US let it do so and supported it without qualm. People might forget but, in 1948, the Jews expelled, massacred, destroyed and raped in Palestine. As a result of that campaign, 500 Palestinian villages and 11 urban neighbourhoods were destroyed. Some 700,000 Palestinians were expelled and several thousand...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...hear the argument that other Europeans are working with the Americans as well and that the Americans are our friends. It is almost as if the fact that they bring arms, bombs and so on through to destroy places like Yemen is none of our business. Deputy Pearse Doherty mentioned that we were robbing the Third World with our behaviour. ActionAid Ireland made the same point recently,...

European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Mick Wallace: ...rate and the parents were delighted with them. Now, however, they are back at square one and regressing. I know the Government inherited a poisoned chalice from the previous Government which destroyed the place. However, surely it must believe the primary purpose of any Government is to look after those in society who most need our help, but that is not happening. We will vote on the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...me and said the place was hell on earth. Of late Deputy Clare Daly and I have been working with a number of refugees in direct provision centres. From what we are being told, they seem to be soul-destroying places in which to live. The Minister says improvements are being made. Am I right in thinking most of the facilities are still being run by the private sector? Who is making the...

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: .... That does not come close to dealing with the problem. As I stated previously, I was very disheartened when the Government came up with the idea of the Land Development Agency. It was soul destroying. I do not understand why the Government would turn over State land to developers. The sites will provide 10% social housing and 60% private housing. The Government states that 30%...

Adjournment Debate: Garda Reports (17 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: If Maurice McCabe had not made a recording, the judge would have been compelled to believe the two officers and Maurice McCabe would have been destroyed. This development was not even mentioned in the O'Higgins report. Surely, that undermines the report's integrity. We still do not know whether Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan's legal team, under her direction, handed documents to the...

Topical Issue Debate: Syrian Conflict (13 Oct 2016)

Mick Wallace: ...expelling 3 million refugees back to Afghanistan and the west does not give a damn. Who invaded Afghanistan in the first place? It was the US in 2001, with our help through Shannon Airport. We destroyed the place. God help us and save us, do not tell us Calais is an unofficial camp. So many Irish people have been there trying to help these people survive. I have text on my...

Wind Turbine Regulation Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...require the turbines to be anchored to the sea bed, which is an expensive system. We have a significant resource in the seas around the west coast, and this project should be considered before we destroy the landscape for all and sundry.

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)

Mick Wallace: ...the debate over the household charge was taking place, we held many public meetings. The thing that annoyed people the most was the level of inequality they were witnessing. They find it soul-destroying. Maybe I am living in a fantasy world but I believe a Government's priority should be to take the best care of those who most need its help. I do not believe this is happening. If the...

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...we are for peace and neutrality, we would not allow one of our airports to be used as a military base by anybody. We are allowing Shannon Airport to be used as a US military base to bomb the homes of people and destroy untold lives and countries. A total of 33 million people have been displaced today because of war and whether the Tánaiste likes it or not, the US military machine...

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (6 Jul 2016)

Mick Wallace: ..., talcum powder, coffee, brick dust, cement dust, gravy powder, face powder, curry powder, crushed bleach crystals - pretty much anything. When a person takes contaminated heroin, it clogs up veins and destroys them. When heroin is illegal, street heroin addicts need to raise large sums of money. They can rob or prostitute themselves or, more easily, buy their drugs, take what they need,...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Offences (11 Dec 2012)

Mick Wallace: ...recipient, the confidential recipient said to him that he believed the garda and thought the Commissioner had a case to answer. He said he thought the garda had the evidence. He said they had destroyed the garda, that a man only has his reputation and that if he, the recipient, was asked, he would say the garda was only standing up for what was right. Obviously, the confidential...

European Council: Statements (24 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...The arms race and the militarisation of the planet is causing untold disaster for millions of people. Old people, women and child suffer the most because they occupy most of the buildings that are destroyed by bombs. Able bodied men are not usually in the buildings when the bombs drop on them. Women, children and the elderly are the ones who most commonly die. It is crazy. I urge the...

Estimates for Public Services 2014 - Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Supplementary Estimate) (7 May 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...and trauma caused to Mr. Douch's family by the delay. It appears that the State's conduct was a primary factor in that delay - there were delays in providing important documents, primary evidence was destroyed and there was a long delay in payment to Ms McMorrow for her work. Last June, it was noted that she had not been paid in more than three years, most of which time was during the...

Topical Issue Debate: Syrian Conflict (13 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...they have left behind them. As bad as Saddam was, things were not as bad as they are now. As bad as Gaddafi, was, things were not as bad under him as they are now. The whole region has been destroyed in so many ways by military intervention. It is nonsense and it does not work. There is not going to be a military solution in Syria. It is possible to get everybody talking but those in...