Results 1-7 of 7 for destroyed speaker:James O'Connor

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

James O'Connor: ...fast forward nine years to October 2023 when some parts of Midleton were under more than 5 ft of water. Nothing had been done and hundreds of homes were flooded. Businesses were totally and utterly destroyed. People's lives were turned upside down. In some homes, the walls have still not been repaired. The floodwaters rose to hip height and homes flooded not only in Midleton but also...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

James O'Connor: ...Delivery and Reform. This came into effect in terms of Rathcormac and Castlemartyr and when we go up the stream from Castlemartyr to Mogeely. Gleann Fia got absolutely battered. That estate was destroyed. The residents were very lucky that nobody was injured there. It was awful, and the ramifications of that still are. That tranche 2 system is the height of administrative stupidity....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (24 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: ...;Sullivan, in their words on the devastation in east Cork and the Minister of State’s area of west Waterford. It caused hundreds of millions worth of damage. We have a hospital and a Garda station destroyed. Hundreds of homes are flooded. Midleton Main Street is devastated. In Mogeely, Killeagh, my home parish and community, Inch, Castlemartyr, Ladysbridge, Whitegate,...

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

James O'Connor: ...very lucrative contracts, has been despicable. If I were to use one word following last week's proceedings of the Committee of Public Accounts, it would not be "anger" but "upset" at seeing careers being destroyed by the contents of that meeting, and the reputation of some of our most well-known broadcasters in the State being tarnished, unfortunately. It was not pleasant and the sad...

Energy Security: Statements (27 Oct 2022)

James O'Connor: ...energy bills and, in some cases, their bills are well in excess of €100,000 per annum. They have seen drastic increases in the cost of gas and electricity and their profit margins have been utterly destroyed. We need to be very mindful of the knock-on consequences and damage this could cause, particularly in rural Ireland where the situation for business and enterprise is already...

Common Agricultural Policy: Statements (16 Jun 2021)

James O'Connor: ...involved in selling energy back to the grid. The people of rural Ireland would much prefer to get their electricity on a local basis through microgeneration than to be blighted by large wind farms that destroy the countryside and should all be offshore. I feel very strongly on this particular issue. I am interested in the Minister's reply to my points about microgeneration and...

Covid-19: Statements (24 Nov 2020)

James O'Connor: Many people will not forget 2020 for a very long time. It started out as a bright new decade, but was destroyed by this pandemic. I feel for what many business owners across the constituency of Cork East, whom I am paid to represent as a new Deputy in the House, have gone through throughout the year. I concur with some of the comments made by Deputy Cowen on the rounds of applause....