Results 1-7 of 7 for destroyed speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...violence in their lifetime and 18% of adult women reported being raped. That is absolutely horrifying. This type of crime is insidious, it involves betrayal, relationships breaking down and trust in someone being destroyed because of their actions and people feeling isolated. It is not the only crime like this, but it is one that has consequences that last for many years, if not a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Feb 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...and online harassment evolve and change at a rapid pace and the Government's and the previous Government's response has been far too slow. This is an enormous social issue, and the Taoiseach knows that. Online bullying and online harassment destroys lives. It is bad enough for children to be bullied at school or for people to be bullied at work but it then follows them home. That is...

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...institutional investors. Workers who are paying rents that are through the roof are competing with these international funds that can buy up whole estates and gazump them completely. It is soul-destroying for people of my age who feel they have no hope of ever having a permanent home. For them, income limits for social housing have not been changed in years and many of them do not...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legal Aid (6 Feb 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...of a fair trial that there be a fair balance in the opportunities afforded to each of the parties involved in litigation. The changes to the legal aid rules brought in last Friday have absolutely destroyed that balance for families making insolvency applications and who may be facing repossession of their homes. They will make it much easier for banks and vulture funds to repossess...

Gambling Control Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...account at the touch of button. The current legislation does not reflect the protections we need. It is an enormous social problem creating very serious situations for individuals and families across the country, absolutely destroying some families. We have sat on this for too long. The Bill contains strong proposals and we owe it to the public to act.

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...them because there needs to be a firm commitment from the State that it will not allow the truth relating to the locations and settings to which I refer to be interfered with or, potentially, destroyed or obscured. That is a very important point. All contributions emphasised the need to listen to survivors. I agree with and wholeheartedly welcome all those contributions and that...

Commission of Investigation into the Grace case: Motion (7 Mar 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...my colleague, Deputy Ó Caoláin, said on the points raised in the Dignam report, which has largely been followed in the terms of reference and rightly so. The extraordinary and quite shocking allegation that files may have been destroyed, that there was a fear that files would be destroyed or that threats were made about funding on the back of what the whistleblowers were coming...