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Financial Resolution No. 4: Value Added Tax (6 Dec 2011) See 1 other result from this debate

Stephen Donnelly: ...increase to VAT is dumb policy making. The only figure supplied is €650 million. A 15 year old studying junior certificate economics could do a better job than this. We know this measure will destroy jobs and that there will be second and third order effects. Where are the calculations? An army of people are paid very well to do these calculations. Where is the poverty impact...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (28 Sep 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...settler violence, demolitions and the forced transfer of Palestinian populations. What we are witnessing is Israel deliberately inflicting on Palestinians actions and conditions of life designed to destroy them within the West Bank. They are designed to destroy Palestinian communities in the West Bank. We need to call these out. To call them negative trends or say they are not giving...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2015)

Denis Landy: ...are held, including Clare, Limerick, Waterford and Kilkenny, to name but a few. Gangs of unscrupulous characters are coming onto lands where open coursing meetings are being arranged, stealing and destroying hares and leaving the land and property utterly destroyed. This matter was brought to my attention by a long-standing coursing enthusiast, Councillor Andy Moloney, from Cahir. He...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Billy Kelleher: ...destruction of the unborn to safe the life of the mother? We can understand that in the event of an intervention prior to foetal viability, while it would not be intentional, the life will be destroyed. From where in the heads of the Bill did Ms McDonagh obtain the perception that there will be intentional interventions in order to destroy the life of the child and after viability as...

Programmes for Government (15 May 2012)

Enda Kenny: ..., economic comment and political comment and business leaders now look at Ireland as being a country that is going in the right direction, difficult though that is. If the Deputy seeks to destroy that level of investor confidence by calling for a "No" vote in our own future, then he destroys the very proposition he is talking about. Jobs will only come from confidence and from decisions...

Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Bill 2009: Report and Finals Stages (Resumed) (25 Jun 2009)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...or civil case is taken into account when making these decisions. I mentioned a case on Committee Stage, which I will not outline in detail now, where the Garda Síochána Complaints Board destroyed all its records despite the fact that there was an outstanding civil case which was dependent on the records. When such a decision is made about material, there should be an effort to ensure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)

Dara Murphy: ..., Ireland is now a cheaper place to conduct business. Commercial rates have not increased over recent years, with the exception of a couple of local authorities. Although the witnesses refer to destroying investment, despite the extremely difficult economic climate, the economy is experiencing modest growth. We should all be more careful in our language and when using terms like...

Covid-19 (Childcare): Statements (4 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...is, the testimonials from the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation and the fact that the commission will be wrapped up on 28 February. We must investigate and see how those files were destroyed. We must ask why survivors did not give their consent for those files to be destroyed and ascertain how it was allowed to happen. Will the Minister extend the remit and time...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Mar 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ..., wearing proudly my remembrance of being a member of the Defence Forces. Thousands of men and women have served this country with distinction and honour. We have a number of rotten apples who destroyed the reputation of those men and those women. I have had colleagues and friends contact me over the last few days who are devastated, their good names and reputations destroyed by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2017)

John McGuinness: ...have told the bank they are almost a beaten docket because of what it has done to them. However, the bank refuses to deal with them. This has been going on in this case since 2010. The bank is destroying this person's life. How many more lives is it destroying and what action can the Central Bank take?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Palestine and Israel: Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (10 Dec 2014)

...aid projects between 2001 and 2011. A parliamentary question at EU level was asked about the funding provided. During that period €49 million worth of EU funded and member state projects were destroyed. A question was raised whether member states and the European Union could claim back some of the money from Israel. A motion to claim it was put to a vote, but the vote went...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Controls (21 Jan 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Noonan: ...by the Revenue Commissioners that goods seized by them in the exercise of their statutory powers which are not returned to the person from whom they are seized may be disposed of by being sold or destroyed or, in the case of motor vehicles, by being allocated for use by the Revenue Commissioners, An Garda Síochána or the Defence Forces. The amounts realised by Revenue from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Engagement with the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Youth (16 Feb 2021) See 3 other results from this debate

Jennifer Whitmore: ...the Minister on the work that was undertaken. The commission's report specifically states that 550 witnesses were asked for permission to record their evidence and then all such recordings were destroyed. Section 43 of the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 says: "all evidence received by and all documents created by or for the commission" have to transfer over to the Minister. We...

Seanad: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (2 Oct 2014)

David Norris: ...that the penalties were not sufficiently severe. The section states, on page 73 line 5: "Where an FOI request has been made in respect of a record, a person who without lawful excuse and with intention to deceive destroys or materially alters a record shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on summary conviction to a class B fine." That is just a slap on the wrist. There may very...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (12 Mar 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...by this House following the publication of the Ryan Report, these proposals will allow the documentation received by the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse to be preserved for posterity and not destroyed. It is also proposed to preserve the documentation of the Residential Institutions Redress Board and Review Committee. I believe that it is very important that these records are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Noxious Weeds (23 Sep 2014)

Simon Coveney: ...are present are subject to the provisions of the Act, including a fine of up to €1,000 on conviction. My Department actively seeks to enforce the provisions of the Act by issuing notices to destroy in all instances where it becomes aware of the presence of noxious weeds. A total of 57 such notices were issued in 2012 and 2013. These notices are issued as a result of inspections...

Health Service Records. (1 May 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: ...constituent accepted this response but it seemed to me a peculiar situation. In 2006, another constituent sought information contained in a particular file only to be told that the file had been destroyed. On 18 December 2006, I put down a question to the Minister on the disposal of files and received a comprehensive and reassuring answer. However, today's development is startling on...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Kevin Humphreys: ...is a good example. The numbers dropped disastrously, quite close to the level of extinction. That happened because of poor science and lack of research. Some 70% of its natural habitat was destroyed. We are now fighting for an endangered species to be brought back again. It is being brought back through good science. There were in-depth surveys carried out between 2008 and 2010 on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...done to people's lives. I live in Buncrana. I look to my right-hand side outside my house and I see the quarry that was predominantly responsible for all the homes. People's lives have been utterly destroyed. People of my generation were good, honest people who built their own homes. We did what we were supposed to do, which is work hard, pay our taxes and build our homes. Their...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Turbary Rights (29 Jan 2014)

Luke Flanagan: ...Forbes has lost 91.6% of its active raised bog habitat. What exactly is the Minister trying to achieve? It is quite clear what is being achieved. The Minister is alienating turf cutters and destroying habitat. Will he deal with the issues? If one reads some of the stuff about us in the media, one would think we are trying to destroy bogs but my bog and that of our group's chairman...