Results 1-20 of 151 for destroyed speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the need to protect nature, biodiversity, water quality and all those things while meeting the needs of people and having a commonsense approach that is also respectful of the environment, which we destroy at our peril. We cannot build stuff and then find we do not have clean water. We have to get things right, but I empathise with the sentiment in that if planning does not really...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...protest that has brought us to this day. It should not have taken seven months of a genocidal massacre being inflicted on the people of Gaza, with 35,000 people slaughtered, 15,000 children, Gaza destroyed and famine conditions imposed on the entire population for us to get to this moment. The horror of the past seven months is a direct result of the impunity that has been granted to...

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...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... How could it be – the State surely has some information about this – that the investigations here were closed down after ten weeks? Why are the Garda files missing? These have never been seen and are generally believed to have been destroyed. Why was the forensic evidence of the bombing sent North and the person, Dr. James Donovan, the Garda forensic technical expert,...

Report of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...This second emergency is often less focused upon but it is arguably as urgent as, if not more urgent than, the climate crisis because the possibility of whole ecosystems collapsing because we are destroying biodiversity - in this case, marine life - and not paying enough regard to protecting the marine means that we could end up cutting off our nose to spite our face. I mean that very...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...getting into the water and poisoning whole communities. Those same chemicals were being used. Paint strippers that are banned elsewhere are still being used in the Irish Defence Forces. Contaminated clothing was supposed to be destroyed or treated in a very particular way but soldiers were not warned about this and were going home to their kids with this stuff. It was being mixed in...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...at Goodbody Stockbrokers saying it a week or two ago. The latest, very ironic, news is that Michael Stanley of Cairn Homes, whose company made €667 million in revenue from these unaffordable houses, is now saying we are destroying our economy because of the housing shortage and the unaffordability of housing. This is the guy who is profiteering from the market. He is saying his...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...away tragically. Approximately 15 years ago, he was giving out to me about the cutting of the grass and hedgerows on his estate, which is a council estate in Shankill, saying this was absolutely destroying the birds and the bees. He was a person who looked after birds and all of that kind of thing; he was mad into nature. He said that what we needed were urban meadows. Up until then, I...

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...that we cannot displace one industry with another. Where there is an industry and where people are making their livelihood and living in a particular area it is prohibited to displace them and destroy their industry and livelihood in order to make way for another industry. That is precisely what they see as coming down the line as the private corporations - they are all private...

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...offshore wind, we cannot put these in different locations now. We have the technology. There does not have to be a trade-off between the imperative of developing renewable energy resources and destroying existing livelihoods in industries or, for that matter, doing other things that may damage our marine and coastal environment. I hope the Minister will look into that east coast side of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...top of mountains in order to build wind turbines and then the mountains collapse as a result with incredible destruction following. Turbines may also be built in the wrong place where they might destroy marine life biodiversity. We know the sea and the oceans are some of the big sinks for dealing with climate emissions. If we do not have the references to protection, conservation and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...by the Minister, Deputy Coveney, and others today, mean nothing, as the Taoiseach rightly said, to Netanyahu, Smotrich and Ben-Gvir. Ministers today in the Israeli Government are saying they want destroy Gaza, adding to the litany of incitements to genocide made by that government over the past four months. Why do they continue? Why do they think they can do it again? It is because...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...children, mothers and innocent civilians to bits, blowing up residential buildings, schools, hospitals, churches and mosques, starving the people of water, food and electricity, and systematically destroying the infrastructure necessary for the sustenance of human existence. This is a genocide. Much of the fury of those who are protesting is directed at the Government and the European...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...had been murdered by Israel. There are now 25,000. That is 14,000 more people dead. There were 1 million people displaced at the time. There are now 2 million displaced. Some 75% of all homes in Gaza have been destroyed. Israel is levelling Gaza in front of the world. It is ticking every box under the genocide convention for the commission of genocide. Every single government,...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...week saying the Israelis should not give the Gazans water and that he wanted all of them to get lice. This is sick. We have TV presenters in Israel saying on national television they are going to destroy all the Palestinians, that they are going to come after Lebanon and come after anybody who even shows sympathy with the Palestinians in the West. There is a multitude of evidence from...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...looking at when we look at the slaughter and massacre that Israel has pursued against the people of Gaza over the past five weeks. It is not just us who are saying that. Academics, experts and people who are knowledgeable about international law and human rights have said that what Israel has done in Gaza over the past four or five weeks fits all of the definitions of genocide as set out...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...convention requires states to do absolutely everything in their power to prevent a genocide taking place. The definition of "genocide" is: any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...; That has been the entire history of the state, which is one of ethnic cleansing, apartheid and occupation. I ask the Taoiseach why he says this state is defending itself when it is clearly involved in a genocidal war to destroy the Palestinian people. I ask the Taoiseach again - I asked him this before - if a regime built on ethnic cleansing, apartheid and illegal occupation has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...responsible. Before 7 October, Netanyahu appeared in front of the UN General Assembly with a map of Israel that had removed all references to Palestine. It was a clear declaration of intent to destroy the Palestinian people and steal all their land. A total of 6,000 Palestinians were killed between 2008 and 7 October this year. Thousands of Palestinians are held hostage, without trial,...

Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Motion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Palestinians to animals, and further notes that such characterisations of Palestinians by Israel long pre-date the recent escalation of violence; — notes that the health authorities in Gaza believe that as many as 1,200 people are trapped beneath the rubble of buildings destroyed by the Israeli bombardment, and that because of the Israeli blockade, the Gazan authorities do not...