Results 1-18 of 18 for destroyed speaker:Dan Neville

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

Dan Neville: .... The previous housing model was unsustainable and its legacy is ghost estates. There are repossessions and an increase in homelessness because of it. There are people who have really been destroyed due to the levels of borrowing they were able to obtain and not support. The waiting list increased from 43,000 in 2005 to 98,000 in 2011, and then dropped down to 90,000 in 2013. It...

Education (Welfare) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2013)

Dan Neville: ...back. Ask any student about bullying and he or she will have a story. Each story is unique and tells us a great deal about bullying and the pain it causes. When a child's self esteem is destroyed and he or she takes an overdose to get away from the pain, one can clearly see that the issue of bullying is not to be taken lightly. Bullying is a negative and, often, aggressive...

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Dan Neville: ...as to default and not be able to bridge the €12 billion deficit, to which previous speakers referred. The debate on default is ongoing. It might be an economic solution but for a start it would destroy our international reputation, on which we depend as an open economy. There would be serious implications for life opportunities and the standing of our citizens. Were we to default it...

Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)

Dan Neville: ...have on the social fabric of the State and how it would affect the people. It could be debated that default might be an economic solution, but what would be the social implications? It would destroy our international reputation and there would be serious implications for life opportunities and the standing of our citizens. We might decide to leave the eurozone, but if we were to...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 May 2011)

Dan Neville: ...analysed the effect a default would have on the social fabric of the State and how it would affect people. Default may be an economic solution but what are its social implications? It would destroy our international reputation and there would be serious implications for life opportunities and the standing of our citizens. We may decide to leave the eurozone, but if we default we are...

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Dan Neville: ...see are trucks and cars. I went to take a photograph there a number of years ago at 11 a.m. and I had to go away. One could not take a photograph of the village as all the cars and heavy traffic destroyed it - I took it at 7 o'clock one morning as there was less traffic. It would be of enormous benefit to the region. It is 25 years since the first line was drawn for the bypass of Adare...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2009)

Dan Neville: ...are at fault but only some bankers are at fault. The bank officials on the desks doing their daily work are not responsible for what has happened. They do a good job and many of them have been destroyed by the actions of a few powerful people in the bank. Their morale and job satisfaction has been destroyed by a powerful elite who became very greedy. The Government nationalised Anglo...

Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)

Dan Neville: ...high levels of income and high standards of living. Many professional people, along with people from other socio-economic groups, are losing employment and their expectations for their futures are destroyed. The level of pressure on them is accentuated due to the level of income and economic activity they experienced during the years of the Celtic tiger economy. The unemployed are six...

Flooding at Newcastle West. (8 Oct 2008)

Dan Neville: ...radar images indicate that the rain began at around 7.30 p.m. on 31 July and continued until approximately 1.30 a.m. on 1 August, giving a storm duration of six hours. Premises and houses were destroyed. The committee reckoned that up to 200 houses and properties, including business properties, were damaged. The damage cost for that single night is estimated at up to €40 million. ...

National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)

Dan Neville: .... The representatives admitted that they have seen the traffic in Adare, which can be backed up for three to four miles at peak times. Adare is a brilliant tourist product, but it is being destroyed by the level and congestion of traffic going through it. Not alone were the representatives not able to give me any encouragement that the bypass, which was mooted many years ago, would be...

Anti-Social Behaviour: Motion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2008)

Dan Neville: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion and congratulate Deputy Charles Flanagan on tabling it. Anti-social behaviour must be tackled as a matter of urgency. It is destroying many communities and this is very evident in many towns and villages. I am regularly approached about it in my constituency. People in Newcastle West almost feel under siege at certain times of the weekend....

Establishment of Committees (11 Oct 2007)

Dan Neville: ...to make a strong case about an issue only to have a Minister or Minister of State read a script pre-written by the responsible Department, which script he or she might not have read. It is soul-destroying, yet we persist with this method. I hope the difficulties we have been experiencing with committees can be resolved very quickly. I assure the Minister of State that we will help in...

Company Closures. (27 Sep 2006)

Dan Neville: ...competitive area and the Minister must take this on board. Growers have invested substantially in their enterprises. Many of them have heavy borrowings. Many will see most of their livelihoods destroyed. They will have to meet their borrowings regardless of what happens. I took a call from a poultry producer today who simply asked me whether he would need planning permission to knock...

Criminal Law (Home Defence) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2006)

Dan Neville: ...are on shift duty, who are frightened due to the level of burglary and the sometimes associated violence. In all our parishes, there are elderly people who have had the remainder of their lives destroyed and shortened because of muggers or intruders who need money for drugs or whatever. Such intruders enter homes, beat up people and sometimes take their lives for €20, €30 or €40....

Written Answers — Animal Diseases: Animal Diseases (8 Dec 2005)

Dan Neville: Question 178: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the poultry disease that caused the Department to destroy a flock of turkeys and chickens on a farm (details supplied). [38566/05]

Written Answers — Civil Registration: Civil Registration (3 Nov 2005)

Dan Neville: Question 67: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there is a procedure to register a death that took place in County Limerick in 1960 when the record of the cause of death is destroyed and not available. [32290/05]

Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (2 Nov 2005)

Dan Neville: ...unregulated situation and the opportunity for untrained people acting as psychotherapists or counsellors to do damage is frightening. Vulnerable people in crises who need professional help can be destroyed. This situation has been exposed by some practising alternative medicines where people have been duped out of life savings. Is the same happening in the area of psychotherapy and...

Natural Disasters in Asia and Central America: Statements. (13 Oct 2005)

Dan Neville: ...phase in a remote region with enormous logistical difficulties where landslides have cut off many roads. Access is possible only by foot and helicopter. More than 80% of buildings have been destroyed in some areas. Priority needs include shelter, winter size tents, plastic sheets, blankets, mattresses, nutrition, pre-cooked can food, high energy biscuits and survival rations, medicines,...