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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...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

James Browne: ...the timelines as well. They are a carryover from what is there but I acknowledge they have probably been honoured in the breach, so we can amend it. This gambling legislation is crucial. Gambling is destroying people's lives every day. The idea that we would not pass gambling legislation is absolutely horrid and would be a failure of this Parliament. However, we can work...

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mattie McGrath: ...will be accused of not supporting the Garda. We are 100% in support of the organisation, but it must not use the tactics in question. In Roscrea, the “soft caps”, as they are called, came in and literally destroyed grandmothers, children and anyone else who was there. It was a totally staged operation for the cameras to further the narrative of the Minister’s...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Rónán Mullen: ...completely ignored all the concerns about precautionary pain relief and the lack of it, the reality of what happens in a late-term abortion and the major moral and social question about what it is to destroy a human life, whether at an early or late stage, in the womb. On all of that, since the repeal of the eighth amendment and the introduction of legislation for abortion, the attitude...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I do not want to speak too much about bullying, but there is an epidemic of it in the workplace and in many instances it is silently destroying people's lives. I am not certain what the answer to that is, beyond education systems and processes. It was not my intention to raise the issue of bullying in the workplace, but I will follow on from the points raised. There is a prevalence of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: Last week, we heard the chilling words of Aoife Johnston's mother, "we told her she would be looked after, but she wasn't. We told her she was in the best place". That has destroyed what little confidence there was in the mid-west in the accident and emergency unit. We are good at addressing the injustices of 40 or 50 years ago in this House. That is absolutely necessary and I commend the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Boylan: ...detect an Apple AirTag. Is there training for the Garda on what to do if somebody contacts them to say they are being tracked by an AirTag and they cannot find it? If they do find it, are they being told to destroy it when, in fact, it could be evidence in a future case? This is an area we need to look at. I want a reassurance that it is on the agenda at the Department of Justice and...

Seanad: Flooding on Lough Funshinagh: Statements (30 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Eugene Murphy: ...background. I told the committee eight or nine months ago that the flora and fauna are dead, the bird life is gone, the wildlife is gone and the tree and bush life are all dead. Stagnant water causes disease and destroys the environment. For the life of me, I cannot understand how people who call themselves environmentalists cannot see this situation. We now have the threat to...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Apr 2024)

...us to manage our day jobs. The three were held to account for every single decision they made and most importantly, they were known to the people of Westport. Since 2001, local government has been destroyed. It was murdered in 2014. At that time, county managers were being described as such. Then the name was changed to "chief executive officers". In my view, they should be called...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Seán Crowe: Like everyone else, I have met families and individuals and seen the impact gambling has had on their lives. I have seen families destroyed by it, marriages destroyed, job prospects destroyed and housing applications rejected. People who are applying to borrow money are not able to get a loan because lenders check to see whether a person gambles regularly. I accept there are problems. I...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael Lowry: ...One farmer was quoted recently as saying he was standing at the window looking out at the rain while holding yet another troubling bank statement in his hand. The mental toll that this prolonged and soul-destroying weather has taken on farmers is enormous. The sense of helplessness they feel is overwhelming. They are victims of something that is completely outside of their control....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

John McGuinness: ...the tribunals, but it applies to the Charleton tribunal in particular because of what happened during it. Will the papers for all those tribunals be stored? Will they be kept for reference? Are they destroyed or what happens to them? There are particular examples within the Charleton tribunal that point to back channels into and out of Government and so on, which I would love to see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

...take some information like that about the vehicle they are driving to be very serious and they would seek to have an immediate remedy carried out. As for the 3,200 vehicles that were ultimately destroyed, the vehicle would have been brought to a workshop and deemed an uneconomical repair where the vehicle was too old for the repair that was to be carried out, and that would be a decision...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: ...but we do need immediate action. This is going on since 2016. It has been years, on and off. The flooding now is at record levels. People out there are really worried. We have an SAC that is destroyed. Everything in it is dead. It is absolutely ruined. We need immediate and urgent intervention to save the homes that can be saved. For some, it is too late but for the rest and for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: ...more than 80 landowners, costing more than €50 million and counting. The cost to the people, businesses and homes is much more, emotionally as well. When that happens, your home or business is destroyed and everything you have is gone. Some people could not get insurance. Some were underinsured, which I ask the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, to look at. They were insured to a...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Mattie McGrath: ...not even go to the Garda conference. The Commissioner was not even asked, nor should he be. I do not blame them for that as they have no confidence in him. Will you stop the rot? Stop trying to destroy our very culture, our fabric, our being, and infiltrating our country and overrunning it with migrants from God knows where. Look after the people who need to be looked after and have...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Pippa Hackett: ...could see the countryside, and in doing so, Tony said, they cut down everything in sight: plum trees, crab trees, cherry trees and the hawthorn. Nature planted those fruit trees, he said, and man destroyed them.Unfortunately, Tony's account, while sad, is a reality we must own up to. By "we", I mean policymakers. For decades, we have been encouraging, training and incentivising farmers...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (23 Apr 2024)

Catherine Martin: ...funding from my Department in Cork County includes funding of €600,000 awarded to Cork County Council, towards rebuilding the of Briery Gap Theatre & Library, Macroom Co Cork after it was destroyed by fire. In 2014, the Department awarded a grant of €1.5m towards the West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen. Proposals for the development local arts centres are a matter...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)

..., we are told we are not good enough, we will never achieve anything, there is no belief in us and we should look at everybody that came before us. The internalisation of this experience is soul-destroying. Nobody talks enough about it, but society needs to hear this and hear it well because being treated like this is soul-destroying and breaks your character as a human. I will repeat...