Results 1-15 of 15 for destroyed speaker:Seán Haughey

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Haughey: ...including the US and Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Qatar. What is clear is that there is no role for Hamas in such a long-term solution given its stated intention to destroy Israel. Similarly, it is very difficult to see any role for the current Israeli Government under Benjamin Netanyahu. The recent remarks by US Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer...

Second Anniversary of War in Ukraine: Statements (20 Feb 2024)

Seán Haughey: The brutal invasion of Ukraine by Russia two years ago was unprovoked, unlawful and unjustifiable. Thousands of civilians have been killed and critical infrastructure has been destroyed on a massive scale. It is clear that Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine and it must be held accountable through the international courts, specifically the International Criminal Court, the European...

European Council Meeting: Statements, Questions and Answers (12 Jul 2023)

Seán Haughey: ...Palestinian territory continues to escalate out of control. We recently witnessed the brutal Israeli raid on Jenin in the West Bank, where civilians were attacked and critical infrastructure destroyed. Israeli demolitions, settlement expulsions and forced transfers in the occupied Palestinian territory are unrelenting. All this activity is clearly a violation of international law and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Haughey: ...protection applications, to ensure deportations actually take place, to deal with applicants coming from so-called safe countries of origin and to address the problem of applicants losing or destroying their travel documentation. What approach did the Taoiseach take at last week's special EU Council meeting?

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (7 Dec 2022)

Seán Haughey: ...snow and sub-zero temperatures arrive, fighting is now concentrated around the Donetsk region. Much of the country has been plunged into darkness as power plants and critical infrastructure are destroyed by Russian missile strikes. The EU, the G7 and Australia have agreed to cap the price of a barrel of Russian oil delivered by sea at $60. This is an attempt to hinder Russia's ability...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)

Seán Haughey: ...the European Research Group in the Tory Party, to win his recent no-confidence vote. The legislation can be seen in that context. Boris Johnson is, in effect, setting aside international law, destroying British-Irish relations and EU-UK relations, weakening the Good Friday Agreement and risking a trade war between the EU and the UK. The British Government has said that it is setting...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and Reports of Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Seán Haughey: ...between the RUC and the UDA-UFF in these cases. The report also showed that the police gave weapons to these paramilitary organisations. It outlined how records about loyalist informants were destroyed, and it highlighted how warnings were not passed on to those known to be under threat. In January the Police Ombudsman issued another report into the RUC's handling of paramilitary...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)

Seán Haughey: ...between the RUC, the UDA and the UFF. The report outlines how the police provided weapons to these paramilitary organisations. It highlights how records regarding loyalist informants were destroyed and shows how warnings were not passed on to those known to be under threat, such as in the case of Jim Clinton and his wife and family. The term "collusive behaviour" was used by the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Haughey: ...'en starts earlier and earlier. I am referring to illegal fireworks and bonfires being lit on our public open spaces. People and animals are being terrorised and public open spaces are being destroyed. It is the same every year and it has to stop. I note the Minister for Justice has launched the fireworks awareness-raising campaign for 2021 in association with the Irish Society for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (20 Feb 2019)

Seán Haughey: ...backlogs. It is a major piece of transport infrastructure for the city and the country and if there is any hold-up whatsoever in the movement of trucks and other traffic through the tunnel, it will destroy traffic flows generally. It will disrupt traffic completely. I hope the line Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport is conscious of this. It is the first thing people will realise...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (24 Oct 2018)

Seán Haughey: ...of all the problems is to be found in the small group of Brexiteers in the Tory party who continue to campaign against the EU with almighty ferocity. They seem determined to cause chaos even if it destroys the economy of their own country. Added to this, there is the complicated scenario in which the DUP is adamant that Northern Ireland cannot be treated any way differently from the rest...

National Monuments (The Moore Street Battlefield) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2018)

Seán Haughey: ...to Chartered Land. Had we yielded to that pressure, planning permission would have been brought into force, there would be a huge shopping centre now in place there, and much of the terrace would have been destroyed. It was not the finest hour for city management but thankfully there were enough of us Dublin City councillors to prevent the disposal of 24 and 25 Moore Street. We are...

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Seán Haughey: ...the centre under pressure. Extremism and hatred pose real challenges for our liberal democracies. This vote was divisive in many ways for the United Kingdom and the EU. It has the potential to destroy unity and consensus at a European level. The leave campaign was ugly and nasty. It was negative and angry. This ignorance and intolerance is on the rise in other EU states as well. Old...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (12 May 2005)

Seán Haughey: ...areas and into the inner city suburbs. A policy of high density development is being facilitated which I welcome in some respects. Nevertheless, we must be careful in our planning that we do not destroy the traditional neighbourhood communities which have characterised Dublin North-Central and neighbouring constituencies over the years. That is a digression from the subject of the Bill,...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (26 Jan 2005)

Seán Haughey: ..., Heritage and Local Government if he has considered the new development plans for Wicklow, Kerry and Donegal; if those plans will facilitate an increase in one-off rural houses which may destroy environmental and tourist sensitive areas in these counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1273/05]