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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (23 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I am sure the Minister of State is aware that the defective concrete block crisis has ravaged my county of Donegal and other counties. It has destroyed people's homes, farm buildings and businesses but it is also affecting community organisations across the county. Some of these community organisations are technically being classed as commercial buildings, including organisations like the...

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to say the children are withdrawing such is the impact on their mental health. They have loads of letters from the doctors to say their mental health is in bits, but they have been denied medical priority. Parents are told that their kids may be absolutely destroyed by this experience and their own mental health may be destroyed by it, but that is not a priority because there are not...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: .... Some suggestions from the Opposition today have been constructive and are welcome. However, Sinn Féin’s plans to scrap the help-to-buy scheme, the first home scheme and the €70,000 vacant property grant would destroy the route to homeownership for a generation of young people. Rather than being scrapped, as Sinn Féin is planning, these schemes should be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...cut to €29.80. They must also be ground down to the same subsistence level as the kids in direct provision. The same sort of performative cruelty is on display as when the Government picks up and destroys the tents of vulnerable people who have almost nothing in this world just to show it is taking the issue seriously. How can the Taoiseach justify the cruelty? Are the children...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (21 May 2024)

Tom Clonan: ...set of findings, led immediately to a sustained and robust campaign of reprisal and character assassination, including threats of criminal prosecution for breaches of the Official Secrets Act, which destroyed my reputation and left me in fear of losing my job and being imprisoned. Yet, 25 years later we have a judge-led inquiry that is still investigating what happened. There is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Africa Day: Discussion with African Ambassadors to Ireland (21 May 2024)

...has tried to find a solution but the Rapid Support Forces always refuse to stop. Although they allege they want to bring about democracy, democracy cannot be brought about by killing people or destroying the state infrastructure. In places that are under the control of the Government of Sudan, life is normal life, although there are difficulties. The people living there are suffering...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...on the site at the moment is a presence of security personnel. This is a necessary precaution to protect the site, following attacks at another site in Crooksling, which saw part of the buildings destroyed in a suspected arson attack.

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...wagging the dog, completely, totally and utterly. We can raid this fund any time we like for environmental issues, pet projects of the Minister, Deputy Ryan, and the ideology he is following that is destroying our economy. He fundamentally refuses to consider building road projects. This amendment is about housing, which is a massive crisis. However, the Government - and Fine Gael has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Joan Collins: .... The Garda investigation was famously inadequate and the State's response was callous and uncaring. The investigation was closed after ten weeks. Files relating to the investigation were lost or destroyed. The Barron commission criticised the investigation for ending too soon. Forensic evidence was mishandled. Evidence and files that should have been sent North after 24 hours were...

Road Safety and Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Alan Kelly: ...Silvermines at a place called Capparoe. I will use the L-6066-1 and L-6066-2 as examples because we could all name hundreds of roads. They are not roads. They do not exist. The roads have been destroyed. The past nine months of continuous rain means that many roads have been destroyed. We really need to look at an audit of local and regional roads. I am a big supporter of the...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...it should be used for, which is for a more peaceful, prosperous, inclusive and sustainable future to ensure that Ireland will not be implicated in research and innovation into new ways to take or destroy human lives. These are serious amendments; they are really necessary. We are at a crunch point. I do not want us to fail to pass these amendments today and then in two or four years'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

David Stanton: ...does not impact on the witnesses. This is being created by businesses in many ways. My good friend here could be portrayed as saying something terrible just before polling day. That would destroy his political career and he would not be able to do anything about it. The videos are so realistic. We need to start educating people to think twice before they accept what they see.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: ...with respect to the weapons and ammunition we have. It would be a token gesture. Some of them are at the end of their life cycle and in fact it would be cheaper to have them shot at Russians than to have them destroyed. I just do not understand why we do not hand them over. If we are dealing with the US, there is a standardised system so there is a standard number of weapons,...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Joan Collins: ...a long campaign. The film explains how the Garda investigation was mysteriously disbanded just seven weeks after the attacks, with crucial evidence sent North to the RUC being subsequently lost or destroyed or both, while the official inquest into the 34 deaths was never completed. It also examines the accusations of collusion between British intelligence and loyalists believed to be...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mark Wall: ...that problem gamblers have an impact on a further six people in their lives, be it family or friends. Previously, I have read into the record testimonies from individuals whose lives have been destroyed by gambling. Since those debates, I have spoken to many more people who have lost family relationships, homes and jobs simply because of their addiction. Of course, the vast majority...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Martin: ...is absolutely shocking in terms of the destruction of schools, houses, universities and hospitals so the very essence of any society to live in any humane way. All those essentials have been destroyed by Israel and its continued bombardment. Many of the UN agencies went to Rafah in anticipation that the city would be a safe zone from which to conduct their operations in terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (14 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) who has been forcibly displaced four times in Gaza after the building in which they lived was completely destroyed and whose parents and siblings in Ireland are desperate for the person to join them; if she and her Government colleagues will implement special measures in fast-tracking visa...

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: ...and the Department of children this week in a unified plea from a sector that says it is at breaking point. A few remarks in the report paint a grim picture. According to it, women comprise 98% of the sector and it is soul destroying to see so many women being pushed out of business and, crucially, so many parents scrambling for services. Women and men will have to leave the workforce...

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...within their communities and adequate funding to implement this. Currently, parents are applying to anything up to 20 schools for places for their child and they can receive 20 refusals. This is soul-destroying for everybody involved. The parent of a child contacted me recently. Her child is only in third class and the parent is already worrying about where she will find an appropriate...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...EU has funded very important projects in Palestine. It has funded schools, hospitals, healthcare centres, youth clubs and women's centres. In all instances it has watched as Israel has gone in and destroyed those very buildings which Europe has paid for. Europe shrugged and did not look for even a cent back from the Israeli regime. It is all right on the one hand if we say that we are...