Results 1-16 of 16 for destroyed speaker:Seán Fleming

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Seán Fleming: ...universities, leaving them with no access to education or safe places. Some 80% of school buildings in Gaza have sustained damage, including 142 schools that have sustained major damage or were destroyed. Against this backdrop, the Government continues to use all relevant possibilities and engagements to urge international progress at the highest political level towards an immediate...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: United Nations (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: ...peace and security around the world, including on the African continent. The recent UN report referred to by the Deputy makes the case clearly that terrorism and violent extremism, in addition to destroying lives, undermines development gains and threatens to hold back progress for generations to come. The report also notes the unique role for development projects in addressing...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disaster Response (9 Feb 2023)

Seán Fleming: ...the ground. To date, thankfully, we have not heard of any casualties among Irish aid workers on the ground who have been in those countries. I am aware that some of the buildings they live in have been destroyed. I am conscious that some aid workers are sleeping in cars with their families with temperatures of -6°C at night and trying to do work to help the rescue mission on a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Fleming: ..., the Department of Justice and many people in wider society. It is not fair that one side of litigation can be disadvantaged by not having access to information that it had but was required to destroy, or is not allowed to use in a case to defend itself. I take the Senator's points and we will look into it.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 219 of 3 July 2018, if approval is required from his Department or the Irish Prison Service before prison records can be destroyed in a prison by a governor or staff on the governor's behalf; if records are kept of such requests and approval in his Department; if a governor has the authority to make unilateral...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: This is the second time Ms Barry has said no records are available. She mentioned this during her previous appearance. Were the records destroyed or misplaced? What is the Department's policy on records? Are these not State papers?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 – Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Department of Defence
Chapter 8 – Disposal of the Government Jet (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: -----but they are very useful to many other people for other voluntary work and activity by charities. Is Mr. Quinn saying that the Department would rather destroy them than let somebody else use them?

Public Accounts Committee: Policy on the Retention of Contemporaneous Notes in the Preparation of Board Minutes: National Asset Management Agency (14 Dec 2016)

Seán Fleming: ...not fully reflect how a decision was arrived at. Am I right in interpreting Mr. Daly as saying that one of the reasons these notes are not retained is because they might be discoverable? They are destroyed so that they cannot be discovered.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...businesses that have been flooded while reminding the owners of those businesses to pay their commercial rates at the beginning of 2016? I suggest he needs to be in a position to say to those whose businesses have been destroyed that the Government understands that this is going to cost them a great deal of money, regardless of whether they have insurance cover. The Government needs to...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: ..., in future, transfers of information about tenants to Irish Water under section 26 happen only with the written consent of the person involved and any information given to date without such consent be destroyed, subject to the verification of the Data Protection Commissioner. We had such a situation last year when Irish Water sought PPS numbers. Fortunately, light prevailed and people...

Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...our culture for people to want to own the roof over their heads, not just for themselves but for their families. That is the essence of this motion. The Government is doing everything it can to destroy the basic philosophy of many Irish people, which is to own their own homes. The response of the Government to this motion is like something out of never-never land or Disneyland. I do...

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...On page 3 of yesterday's press release, it is stated that Irish Water charges will have to take into account the quality of services provided and due regard will have to be had to these matters. What about the issue of limescale destroying household electric kettles and shower units and clogging up pipes? It is stated that these issues will be referred to the regulator. As the Minister...

Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Second Stage (16 Apr 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...time. The serious impact is not being dealt with. When a supermarket buys containers of drink to sell below cost, it gets a VAT refund from the Government. This is absurd. Not only are supermarkets destroying the young population by making the drink so readily available, they can in turn get a VAT refund because they sell below cost. The matter is very simple. If a supermarket sells...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (10 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...Regarding fees, a great falsehood was told about changes to the freedom of information legislation. When fees were introduced for requests for non-personal information, people claimed that doing so destroyed the original Act. A large proportion of freedom of information requests are from people seeking personal information, in respect of which no fee has ever been charged. While I...

Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: ...by and worked on by the Ministers with responsibility for financial measures. I suspect they would get to the brass tacks of the problem much quicker than their prime ministers. Some claim the IMF destroyed Ireland. It must be recognised it is only providing one quarter of the programme funding. The rest is provided by the National Pensions Reserve Fund, the European Central Bank and...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: ...that it wanted to place one of these monstrosities on the lovely green in Durrow, we all reared up and asked what was going on. We told the engineer that the works were not on because they would destroy the village. We said smaller signs would be more appropriate to a little urban area. We got the run-around before the job was eventually stopped because it was going to be a shambles. At...