Results 101-120 of 122 for destroyed speaker:Mick Wallace

Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...populations. People are probably tired of listening to us raising this issue but, sadly, we will have to keep raising it until something changes. Another act of terrorism is seriously destabilising or destroying the fundamental political, constitutional, economic or social structures of a country. Nobody has done it better than the US military machine. One can also be deemed to be a...

EU Council Decisions on Measures in the Area of International Protection: Motions (1 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...help more than others. Two countries not prepared to take in refugees are Saudi Arabia and America, yet the part they are playing in the destruction of this region is unbelievable. Yemen is being destroyed, with refugees being created every hour there, but no one has said a word about it. Shannonwatch, through freedom of information requests, got the statistics on the planes coming...

European Council: Statements (26 Oct 2016)

Mick Wallace: ...as to why we allow Shannon Airport to be used by the US military's war machine. There is just no end to this. It has been getting worse and worse since 2001. The whole region has been destroyed. The EU, in its infinite wisdom, tried to do a deal with Afghanistan a few weeks ago. The EU is going to send people back to Afghanistan. It just so happens that the majority of the people...

Children (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...the majority of people who are locked up are serving short-term sentences for minor crimes. What about the crimes that hurt all of society? What about corruption, environmental policies that will destroy the planet and the passing of neoliberal legislation that will further deprive those who are already deprived? One in eight children is now living in consistent poverty as a result of...

International Protection (Family Reunification) (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...him out and put in their own fellow, Hadi. The internationally recognised government of Yemen is ruled by an American puppet, supported by the Saudis and the UN. Two years ago, when Yemen was being destroyed by the Saudis, with support from the US, UK and France, the UN told us almost 10,000 people were dead. It was the same the following year, and the year after that. They said again...

Companies Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2013)

Mick Wallace: ...alone the national economy. In fact, not all regulations are bad for business. Sometimes, it is in the long-run interest of the business sector to restrict the freedom of individual firms so that they do not destroy the common pool of resources that all of them need, such as natural resources or the labour force. Regulations can also help businesses by making them do things that may be...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...about the effects that climate change was having on her country, not tomorrow, but today. She described how just one of the now normal mega-typhoons in 2013 took the lives of 10,000 people and destroyed the homes of 2 million others. She pointed out that, while the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, had agreed on the safety limit of a 2° increase in the global...

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...as the best little country in which to do business, ALEC has its own version of the much-loved Doing Business report which similarly grades states on their ability to take away rights from workers and destroy the environment through lack of regulation and in which "costs" imply laws to protect workers, "difficulties" are understood to mean regulations and human rights and "environmental...

Report on the Outline Heads of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Motion (23 Jan 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...what proposal there is in this Bill, or in the Government's imagination, even to begin to deal with this problem? I refer to the problem of the unfettered power of the fossil fuel companies to destroy any chance of reaching the targets alluded to in the Bill. Why is the Corrib project even going ahead? Why is the Government even entertaining the idea of fracking in Ireland? Does it...

An Bille um an gCearthrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Síocháin agus Neodracht) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Peace and Neutrality) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...conflict would be over by Christmas. The motion of March 2003 also states that Dáil Éireann "declares its commitment to the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Iraq". How is it possible to invade and destroy a country while at the same time respecting its sovereignty and independence? It is not possible. It beggars belief that the motion to which I refer...

Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Oct 2013)

Mick Wallace: ...between the lines of the Bill, this possibility exists. Also, in certain cases, there seems to be an emphasis on the responsibility of the owners of the DNA to make requests that the DNA sample or profile be destroyed. Ultimately, given the general lack of transparency, which the Government intends to enshrine in the provisions contained in the new freedom of information legislation, and...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] - Thirty-Fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2016)

Mick Wallace: ...are higher than they have been for a number of years. An incredible amount of aerial bombing is going on by the US and its sidekicks, and much more is planned in the coming months. It is soul destroying when we see the images of destruction in the Middle East, knowing our Government helps it happen and we help to kill people, including women and children, and the Government does not seem...

County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...if the 2012 figures are anything to go by, it is only a fraction. We are eagerly awaiting the 2013 Forfás employment survey. What is excluded from the public relations effort is a discussion of the number of jobs the Government has destroyed. The position on the ground is quite stark and certainly does not provide scope for self-congratulation. In October Mr. Michael Taft collated...

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)

Mick Wallace: I imagine being in the Government is a difficult job and I do not presume for a second that it would not be very challenging. What is most soul-destroying for me here is the number of times that people on the Government side say something but do or think something else. They are pretending. I do not know how the Irish public in general feels about that but it does my head in. The spring...

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...of:(i) seriously intimidating a population, (ii) unduly compelling a government or an international organisation to perform or abstain from performing an act, or (iii) seriously destabilising or destroying the fundamental political, constitutional, economic or social structures of a state or an international organisation;In March, a report authored by the Physicians for Social...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...-ticking maze of unclear terms and conditions, waiting times and general grinding alienation that is the hallmark of the neo-liberal mode of managerialism that successive Governments have used to destroy the notion of public services, be it social housing, education, social welfare and health services? I do not know whether the Minister has seen Ken Loach's film "I, Daniel Blake", but it...

Establishment of a Commission of Inquiry into the National Asset Management Agency: Statements (1 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...I see this Committee as having a very important role in assisting NAMA to meet its objectives on both sides of the border". Then NAMA told us that Cushnahan had no access to confidential information, so why did it ask him to return or destroy it if there was no value in it? Frank Daly was still trying to distance himself from Cushnahan. When asked about joining the board of the...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...put forward by Government is accompanied by the political will to actually use it; otherwise there will be no change. Speaking of no change, Sergeant Maurice McCabe is not at work today nor was he there yesterday. He is suffering from harassment and abuse. He has been told by senior officers that he has destroyed the force. He has reported the abuse through the proper channels and...

Inland Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...% of that land devoted to grass for cattle grazing. This is a big industry. Perhaps that is part of the problem. How many farms have ever faced prosecution for the nitrogen and phosphorous pollution destroying our rivers, waterways, lakes and fish stocks? How many surprise inspections are carried out into bad practices on farms? The State certainly has a responsibility for the fact...

Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...would grant the ability to "big business to sue the living daylights out of governments which try to defend their citizens. It would allow a secretive panel of corporate lawyers to overrule the will of parliament and destroy our legal protections. Yet the defenders of our sovereignty say nothing." I find it incredible how little coverage there has been of the TTIP in Irish mainstream...