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International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...Institutions) Bill. This Bill seeks to ensure records and all relevant documents relating to certain institutions are preserved and protected and that it would be a criminal offence to alter, destroy or dispose of any of them. This would be a really good International Women's Day if the Government were to take a similar approach and follow the good example of our counterparts in Northern...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: ..., to ensure records and all relevant documents relating to Magdalen laundries and residents of those institutions are preserved and protected and that it would be a criminal offence to alter, destroy or dispose of any of these documents. There is an ongoing context to this, but the reason I raise the issue this morning specifically is related to the launch of a book yesterday, entitled A...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...that all records be given to the National Archives. I am not asking the Taoiseach to do anything except to protect these records and ensure anybody who tries to interfere with, damage or destroy them will be guilty of a criminal offence. We can have the discussion and debate afterwards. Will he give the commitment this morning that those records will be protected by this State?

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: ...so disheartening that Government have still not acknowledged Covid as Occupational Illness. I got this illness because of work and I feel like HSE and Government are leaving me to rot. Its soul destroying and a awful way to treat the very ones who had no choice but to go to work with no vaccine and inadequate PPE. That is the strongest case that can be made for recognising long Covid...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: My time is limited but I want to say a few words on energy prices and energy supply. We are aware that Russia is using drones to target people in their homes - killing, maiming and destroying - and now we see the systematic and targeted bombing of energy installations across Ukraine. This is further evidence, not that we need it, that Russia is blindly determined to destroy Ukraine and to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2022)

Marian Harkin: Just over two years ago there was a serious mudslide at Shass Mountain, Drumkeeran, County Leitrim when approximately 55 ha of agricultural land was completely destroyed. It is unusable. Approximately 15 farmers were affected. The Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Noonan, set up an effective working group, for which I thank him. It was...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: ...to pursue those who actually caused the problem in the first place and, in certain instances, whose salaries and bonuses were paid on the backs of the misery of families whose homes are damaged and destroyed by deleterious materials. The taxpayer, and that includes the affected homeowners, will end up footing this enormous bill unless the Minister and his successor exercise their...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (1 Mar 2022)

Marian Harkin: 866. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the compensation package that he committed to when he met with farmers whose lands had been damaged and or destroyed by the Shass mountain landslide which occurred almost 20 months ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11679/22]

Climate Action Plan 2021: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Marian Harkin: ...We need to see agro-forestry that sequesters carbon, provides income, protects biodiversity and provides areas where people, animals and plans can interact in positive ways instead of the community-destroying Sitka spruce we have marching across the landscape. The debate around the national herd is fraught. It is crucial to point out that suckler herd numbers are decreasing year on...

Access of Competent Authorities to Centralised Bank Account Registries: Motion (19 Oct 2021)

Marian Harkin: ...our responsibilities are also to our young people and to protect them from the claws of criminals and organised crime. If we do not act now, laws will be broken and more importantly, lives will be destroyed. I ask the Minister of State to consider what I have suggested.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Jul 2021)

Marian Harkin: ...is rendered useless, and we are talking about 170,000 tonnes of peat that was deposited across lands in Leitrim, is completely up in the air. There have been similar schemes previously when land was destroyed, for example, in Inishowen, but, so far, there has been nothing about the situation in Leitrim. I ask the Tánaiste to look into this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (15 Jul 2021)

Marian Harkin: 53. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the packages that have been put in place to compensate landowners that had lands damaged or destroyed by the Shass mountain landslide, Drumkeeran, County Leitrim in June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38325/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Jun 2021)

Marian Harkin: Like the Taoiseach, I have met families whose lives have been destroyed by the scandal of mica and pyrite. We have all seen the gaping cracks in the side walls of houses and the holes appearing under windows and doors. We know that the level of financial distress and stigma is huge. I raised this issue with the Tánaiste nearly five weeks ago because Sligo County Council had written to...

National Autism Empowerment Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2021)

Marian Harkin: ...to social work, physiotherapy and occupational therapy. It is not as stark, but somewhere between 10% and 25% vacancy. These vacancy rates must be dealt with as a matter of urgency. It is soul-destroying for those who need to access the service and it places intolerable burdens on those who are trying to provide the service. Before I came in, I got three phone calls because people knew...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (21 Apr 2021)

Marian Harkin: 2442. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the packages that have been put in place to compensate landowners that had lands damaged or destroyed by the Shass Mountain Landslide in Drumkeeran, County Leitrim in June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18211/21]

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Marian Harkin: ...can ensure that we enforce that legislation. Once again, the Minister said that he is protecting this information and that the Bill needs to be passed by 30 October or some information could be destroyed. It has been made very clear that we do not know precisely what information the Minister is talking about or what might happen to it. Something bad might happen to some of the...

Employment Rights: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2020)

Marian Harkin: ...their rent in six months' time or their mortgage in two years' time? How can they plan for their or their families' futures? I agree with Deputy Louise O'Reilly, who she said that precarious work destroys people's lives because it takes away their ability to plan. It undermines people's hopes for the future and leaves them on a treadmill. No matter how fast they run, they do not make...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Areas of Conservation (8 Jul 2020)

Marian Harkin: ...very familiar with both directives but the species under threat in the context of this disaster that is heading into an emergency are the people who live in the area and those whose lands have been destroyed. I hear what the Minister of State is saying regarding having people on the ground looking at the situation and assessing it, but I speak to people from Drumkeeran every day and they...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Areas of Conservation (8 Jul 2020)

Marian Harkin: ...the Diffagher river which then goes on to flow into Lough Allen. Several homes are in danger and one house already has about 9 in. of bog at its back door. Vast swathes of land are being completely destroyed. The only thing holding back half the mountainside is the Dawn of Hope Bridge which was built in the late 1800s. It is absolutely astonishing that this bridge is still standing and...

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Marian Harkin: ...for communities to meet, flourish, integrate and create their own sense of identity and pride of place. Communities need adequate child care and recreational facilities. Otherwise, we are actively destroying them. In this House we speak of children on the street and childhood obesity, yet we are guilty by omission. We have community and voluntary groups and local associations raising money...