Results 1-18 of 18 for destroyed speaker:Brian Hayes

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Forestry Sector (16 Apr 2014)

Brian Hayes: ...owners to make their applications at the time of storm damage to allow it to be prioritised by the Department. While direct funding is not being provided at present to those whose forests were destroyed in the storm, a task force chaired by the Minister of State, Deputy Tom Hayes, has been established to assess the damage nationally and to quickly identify the various issues arising as a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (25 Feb 2014)

Brian Hayes: .... Promenade, Bundoran €6,000 Existing pedestrian railing badly damaged during Jan and Feb Storms. Replace pedestrian barrier. Trabeg Beach Caravan Park €80,000 Existing coastal protection damaged and washed away during Dec and Jan Storms. It is proposed to build 541m of Rock Armour 2m high along damaged coast to protect the Caravan Park. Clós Phádraig Housing...

Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 May 2012)

Brian Hayes: ...regarded as being so big that they did not need to go into ordinary branches, and speak to ordinary bank workers or ordinary people about lending policy. With their lending policy they totally destroyed the country and they need to rethink how they get money into the real economy. They also need to eat a considerable amount of humble pie in that process. That will require them getting...

Flood Relief (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Hayes: ...the opportunity to express my personal sympathy and concern to the victims of the flooding, in particular those who lost family members, and other members of the public who had homes and businesses destroyed. The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, as the co-ordinating Department, under the emergency management framework is carrying out an in-depth review of...

Seanad: Flood Relief (16 Nov 2011)

Brian Hayes: ...take the opportunity to express my personal sympathy to and show concern for the victims of the flooding. As the Senator Byrne said, it is very stressful to have one's home flooded and belongings destroyed. In the few opportunities I have had to visit other victims of flooding throughout the country, it is evident that enormous psychological damage is done to people when their homes are...

Financial Resolution No. 23: Income Tax - Artists' Exemption (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Hayes: ...was arrived at. With regard to the changes to the artists' exemption, many people have been arguing for some time that we should have been moving in this direction. I hope the change will not destroy the possibility of Ministers on the other side of the House writing their memoirs when they move to this side of the House in the next few weeks or so.

Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (11 Jun 2009)

Brian Hayes: ..., told their parents were dead, ridiculed, publicly humiliated and called every derogatory name under the sun, those children were treated with zero compassion and respect. Their lives were destroyed. We must not gloss over the report - no matter how unpalatable its contents and findings. To read of a child thrown over a banister of a long stairs because she innocently ate a sweet...

Special Educational Needs: Motion. (6 May 2009)

Brian Hayes: It has taken ten months to destroy it.

Psychological Service: Motion (20 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: ...be met. I will return to this issue tomorrow evening. The current system is shambolic and the Minister must be held accountable for not delivering on her promises. Children's lives are being destroyed by a failure to carry out assessments. That is what the motion is about.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Feb 2007)

Brian Hayes: ...could have been avoided had the Four Courts not been burned in the first act of the Civil War. I will say no more except to note that almost 90% of the records, including many ancient ones, were destroyed over a very short period during that episode of our history. I do not underestimate the task faced by the Minister of State and his researchers in the Attorney General's office with...

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: ...could be expedited in this House as soon as possible. We need to do something to help those who put themselves in the front line of hooliganism and vandalism and encounter people who are trying to destroy our society. We need to protect such people and the jobs they do. I ask the Government to accept the amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill 2004 as soon as possible. I hope Senators will...

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Statements. (2 Feb 2006)

Brian Hayes: ...to understand the level of bitterness still there concerning the Troubles. Our history is that we are 80 years from a violent, bloody and awful Civil War that wrecked homes and families and destroyed the early momentum of the foundation of this State. It has taken us 60 years, as it were, to get over that Civil War. We should not underestimate existing feelings in Northern Ireland on the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2005)

Brian Hayes: ...for those young people who have lost their lives to the scourge of drugs in that area over the past 20 years. It is harrowing to hear of the numbers of people who have lost their lives and families destroyed as a result of the peddling of drugs. Yesterday was a very significant day for the Irish criminal justice system. The Supreme Court handed down what I regard as the most significant...

Seanad: Anti-Social Behaviour: Motion. (11 May 2005)

Brian Hayes: ...; human excrement placed on her porch walls; junkie needles posted through the letter-box and thrown in the back garden while her children were playing; a child's bedroom and the mother's bedroom destroyed with blood; and the living-room and kitchen ransacked. All this was done by a small, targeted, well-organised group of thugs in her community. When a friend of hers who had a...

Seanad: Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 1999: Committee Stage. (30 Nov 2004)

Brian Hayes: ...are greatest. There is a need to ring-fence moneys from this procedure so that those communities, which have been ravaged and worst affected by drugs and whose fabric has been virtually destroyed as a result of the drugs trade over the past 20 years, can see tangible proof in this legislation that they will receive money. Psychologically, it is important for a community to see that half,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2004)

Brian Hayes: ...the news that has come from Iraq in the past day or so. This woman was against the war and sanctions. She stood shoulder to shoulder with the Iraqi people for most of her adult life and has been destroyed in the most appalling way. In her memory and the memory of countless other people who have been kidnapped and murdered in this way, there is a responsibility on civilised society and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: ...growing problem, using the argument that it is not emerging at treatment centres around the city. We need to get real on the problem of cocaine abuse. It is the next wave after heroin, which has destroyed so many communities in this and many other cities. Cocaine is a real issue and it must be addressed. I ask the Leader to convey my views on this matter to the Minister of State, Deputy...

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Nov 2002)

Brian Hayes: ...legislation is established? It is vitally important for communities fighting the scourge of drugs that this legislation be upheld in the courts. Criminals have taken huge sums of money from and destroyed the lives of young people in some of the most deprived communities in this and other cities. We must ensure the assets gained through such activity are returned to the communities...