Results 61-80 of 117 for destroyed speaker:Mick Wallace

Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)

Mick Wallace: ...coped in the post-Depression years. He states: "Crucially, it focused very heavily on the human and social consequences of the crisis. Its primary insight was that you can't save an economy by destroying a society. Jobs, housing, pensions, healthcare and education were at the very heart of the response to the crisis, not as the areas to be attacked but as the springboards for recovery."

Allegations Regarding Sexual Abuse by Members of the Provisional Republican Movement: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...they refused to do anything about it. More than 200 people have come to us with their stories. However, these people have not had an independent hearing of their case as they would wish to have. Their lives are destroyed, just as the life of Maíria Cahill has been destroyed by her experience. I have no doubt but that Maíria Cahill feels for the people who have suffered like...

An Bille um an Ochtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2018 : An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...to the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Iraq". Deputy Clare Daly and I visited Iraq last year and that is not the impression one would get of what happened because the place was destroyed. One cannot invade and destroy a country and at the same time respect its sovereignty and independence. That is not the way it works. The same motion welcomed the arrangements...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Jan 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...shifts without proper periods of rest. Some doctors are working 36 hours without a break. All this has been taking place against the backdrop of austerity cuts to the health services that are destroying people's lives. As noted by Michael Taft yesterday, since the beginning of the crisis, health expenditure has been cut by 12.6%, with a further 2.6% cut planned this year. Health...

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...Governments on climate change has been pathetic and I do not see any change in mindset. This is a good moment, but it is a drop in the ocean towards the bigger picture, while we continue to destroy the environment. This could be described as the perfect example of how the Government could not care less about climate change and the environment and the enduring duplicity of the Department...

Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (28 Mar 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...east and I have spoken to many fishermen who are very concerned about huge Dutch multinational corporations with boats that are registered in Northern Ireland coming down to the south coast and destroying the mussel seed stocks. They use a Northern Irish register as a flag of convenience. How can we guarantee that boats registered in Northern Ireland are in fact Northern Irish owned and...

European Council: Statements (29 May 2013)

Mick Wallace: ...much more interested in using this conflict as a little bit of escapism from the realities of their political problems at home. It should be pointed out that much of the western involvement in the Middle East has helped to destroy secular politics in the region and has unleashed the Shia-Sunni conflict that is tearing it apart. If one considers what the West has been up to in the region...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Policy (6 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...by American-owned companies and run millions of people out of their land in the region, many of whom end up on the Mexican-US border, trying to make new lives somewhere else after their lives have been destroyed. Do people realise that Mike Pence phoned Juan Guaidó on 22 January? The next day, Guaidó appointed himself President of Venezuela. The US, which advised the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...radical. It is not the ESB or Aer Lingus. It promises to be crony capitalism at its finest. This is the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, mark 2, exactly what we do not need. It is soul destroying that the Government would appoint a former NAMA individual as chief executive officer. That is like getting the fox to mind the chickens. I will give an example of how crony...

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...ána and the Department of Justice and Equality. While it is an incredible honour to be in this place and to be put here by the people in one's own area, I also find it incredibly frustrating. It is soul destroying watching the games that are played in here by all sides, not just the Government side. Are we ever going to change how we do things in here? We have lost two...

Common Fisheries Policy Reform: Statements (20 Jul 2011)

Mick Wallace: ...dealing with landing the fish or going out on the boats, but this has been dwindling over time. The rules were changed, but not in the favour of these communities. Not only is an industry being destroyed, a whole way of life is threatened all along our coastline and it should instead be treasured. Getting the Europeans to start treating us fairly, accepting that things were not done for...

Situation in Syria: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: .... Prior to the conflict, Syria was known for being relatively self-sufficient in domestically produced medicines. Today, the majority of pharmaceutical factories are reported as either non-operational or destroyed. In the small number of instances where domestic production is still possible, major difficulties in procuring the raw materials required for local production of medicines have...

Pensions and Retirement Lump Sums: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 Nov 2012)

Mick Wallace: ...are angry that the recession has gone on for so long and over youth unemployment. They are also very angry about the excesses of the bankers. What annoys them most is inequality. This is the most soul-destroying phenomenon of all. Inequality is increasing and there are many reasons therefor. In 1980, the average chief executive in the developed world made 40 times an industrial...

Ratification of EU and NATO Status of Forces Agreements: Motion (5 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...the creation of immigrants. A minimum of 36 million people have been displaced by war. We helped to bomb those people and now we want to put up walls to stop them coming into Europe because we have destroyed the communities in which they lived. It is horrific. All of the rationales fail to register the policies that have given rise to all of this. I refer to all of the efforts at...

Prohibition of the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Oct 2016)

Mick Wallace: ...sudden? If we are to care about climate change, address it and honour our responsibilities, will we even start following the recommendations of the European Commission? Will we stop investing in people who are destroying the planet? Will we take this seriously or will we play games with it? That is what we want to know.

Topical Issue Debate: Shannon Airport Facilities (27 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...to our self-respect as a nation. It matters to our respect for international law and the institutions set up to implement that law. When the then leader of Fine Gael was arguing that Fianna Fáil was about to destroy our tradition of neutrality and rip-up international law while we were at it, Fianna Fáil Deputies shouted across the Chamber that he was a Saddam supporter....

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...of euro. As we spend our time looking at the potential for short-term returns on public infrastructure projects, climate change will cost us an increasing amount in financial terms and human lives destroyed. The idea that the State should operate like a private for-profit entity may be a central tenet of neoliberalism, which has facilitated the advance of the climate change disaster to...

European Council: Statements (24 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...businesses, for instance, at an early stage, can try to block rules intended to prevent the food industry from marketing foodstuffs with toxic substances, laws trying to keep energy companies from destroying the climate, or regulations to combat pollution and protect consumers." On top of this, laws and regulations that affect trade will have to pass an impact assessment. If it is...

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...employing almost 1 million people. One of the first things that the Free Syrian Army, Al-Nusra Front and Jaysh al-Islam did when they reached Aleppo was not to attack the Syrian army, but to destroy the industrial infrastructure. They had control over much of the plant in those factories. They looted them and moved the plant to Turkey. For confirmation, Dr. Ed Horgan of Shannonwatch,...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...about terrorism, we seem to forget that state terrorism is the biggest form of terrorism on the planet by a mile. There is no comparison with any other form and the number of people killed and communities destroyed by what the Americans do through their military operations is frightening. We tolerate American terrorism while we introduce draconian laws to deal with acts that are far more...