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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Noel Grealish: ...on Sunday night and Monday morning, 12 and 13 November, with the storm doing extensive damage to a number of businesses in Galway and, in particular, in Clarinbridge. Shops and businesses were destroyed when a 4 ft high storm surge swept in in ten minutes and out in 15, destroying everything in its path. While these businesses have welcomed the emergency fund relief scheme of up to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Data (6 Apr 2016) See 2 other results from this answer

Frances Fitzgerald: I propose to take Questions Nos. 347 to 349, inclusive, together. I can inform the Deputy that no prisoner telephone calls were destroyed during the capital works at the new Cork Prison as a result of the building works. The policy of the Irish Prison Service in relation to the retention of telephones calls provides that the retention period for recorded phone calls on the Irish...

Seanad: (4 Mar 2009)

Alex White: ...said that clearly and did not seek to moderate the point he made in respect of the word "destructive", which he used again at the end of his speech. The word "destructive" derives from the word "destroy" so, essentially the argument is being made that if we are to permit adoption by same-sex couples, as contemplated by these amendments, it would destroy something. Would it destroy...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Dec 2019)

Seán Crowe: ...quad bikes. Will the Taoiseach discourage parents who might be thinking of buying these bikes for their loved ones at Christmas from doing so? These vehicles bring mayhem into communities and are destroying our parks. They are also making parks exclusive places. While parks, by their nature, should be inclusive, people are terrified to go into many parks because of young people using...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Michael McGrath: I do not believe it is legal for anyone to destroy records that are the subject of an FOI request. I am aware of one of the provisions in the Private Members' Bill to which the Deputy refers that provides for a referral to SIPO. One of the issues that arose when we examined that was it was not clear what SIPO would do with that or what powers it currently has. That issue could not just be...

Seanad: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 14: In page 13, line 7, to delete “6 months” and substitute “1 month”.This amendment deals with the case of a forest being destroyed or removed, which is a very serious matter. We are all agreed in this House that if a forest is removed by any means, including fire or natural causes, the owners should notify the Minister in writing of the...

Written Answers — Pest Control: Pest Control (7 Feb 2006)

Mary Coughlan: ...New Zealand flatworm has been recorded in Britain and Ireland over the last ten years. These flatworms are predators of earthworms and there is no control method other than trapping and physically destroying them. As they do not affect plants or vector plant diseases they are not covered by plant health legislation that comes within the remit of my Department. There was a considerable fear...

Seanad: Stem Cell Research: Statements. (19 Nov 2003) See 6 other results from this debate

.... There is already a ban on cloning and on the production of embryos specifically for research purposes. We are dealing here with entities which already exist. If they are not used, they will be destroyed anyway. In the balance with that one must place the capacity to create cures for some of the most terrible and debilitating diseases. I heard people speak about this on the radio during...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Flood Damage (8 Nov 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...to relay to the Minister the request I have made in support of the issue I have raised. There is frustration because the unprecedented levels of water that accompanied this remarkable act of God destroyed the amenities I have mentioned. On that basis, we are asking the Government to intervene. This should not be treated as a regular application for funding. The extraordinary events of...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)

Nicky McFadden: ...I also raise the issue of stray dogs and our desperate disregard for dogs. I ask the Leader to invite the Minister to come into the House to discuss this topic. In County Westmeath last year we destroyed more than 600 dogs while in the whole of Scotland last year that number was not destroyed. It is all about awareness and lack of funding. There were two dog wardens in County Westmeath...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (12 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...Taoiseach that the reason the then Minister, former Deputy Michael Noonan, brought in real estate investment trusts, REITs, in 2011 or 2011 was because the Taoiseach and his colleagues damn well destroyed this country with their housing policies. They were in bed with developers. The Taoiseach should not come in here and start throwing out commentary like that without reflecting on the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Frances Black: ...had two debates on mother and baby homes, I feel I have to raise the issue again. We learned over the weekend that the audio recordings of the testimonies of survivors of the institutions had been destroyed. Many survivors have expressed anger at this latest development, saying they were not informed when giving their testimonies that they would be destroyed. It was shocking to hear...

Seanad: Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Statements (Resumed) (19 Feb 2021)

Micheál Carrigy: ...teddy bears at my private home, which is unacceptable.We voted to protect the database and the related records. We were there to protect them and now we are being told that the recordings have been destroyed. The commission's report states that 550 witnesses were asked for permission to record their evidence and that all such recordings have been destroyed. Section 43 of the Commissions...

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Sep 2011)

Tom Shehan: ...Regulator in committee that he had done this before in another jurisdiction, he went pale. He came to the committee with a naive approach that he knew nothing about the credit union movement. He destroyed the credit union movement in Burma and he is trying to do the same here. He is a banker who is destroying to destroy the credit union movement.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (2 Feb 2006)

Michael Ahern: ...might be considered dominant. If we change the law to say that a firm with a 30% market share is automatically dominant and one with less than that is not, we will eliminate the flexibility and destroy the law beyond redemption. Worse, we would run the risk of destroying all vestige of competition in the economy. Deputy Howlin criticised a former chairman of the Competition Authority for...

EU Sugar Market Reform: Statements (11 Nov 2010) See 1 other result from this debate

...was its scheme and plan, after which it moved on and it was only a matter of time before the company adopted the same process in respect of Mallow. It drew the rug from under the people there and destroyed an industry that had supplied this country from 1926 onwards. It destroyed an industry that had provided so much employment for so many people and which had been one of the main makers...

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: ...year even though that would not be the case for anyone else. I hope that not too many people will be affected, but for those in this situation, it is not a marginal issue. Their futures have been destroyed by this. Due to getting hit with a €5,000 tax bill every year, they will be stuck in a two-bedroom apartment, stuck renting or stuck avoiding tax and hoping that they never...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drugs Seizures (27 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: ...are subsequently made the subject of a court destruction order, or in circumstances where no offender is, or is likely to be, prosecuted in relation the seizure of the controlled drugs, they are destroyed in a safe and secure manner. In the event of a conviction, the prosecution apply to the court for an order of destruction for the controlled drugs seized. I am further informed that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Eamon Ryan: ...attention is the Blackwater flood management near Bandon where, on a daily basis, we see trucks driving up and down rivers in the middle of the sensitive spawning season. The whole river has been destroyed. Why is the OPW doing flood management in a way that is destroying rivers? The Blackwater is not an unimportant river.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (10 Apr 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...Redress Board and the Residential Institutions Redress Review Committee.  Under the legislation establishing these bodies the bulk of their records would, on the dissolution of those bodies, fall to be destroyed. The records held by these bodies represent the personal testimony and stories of many survivors of residential institutional child abuse and a range of related...