Results 1-18 of 18 for destroyed speaker:Darragh O'Brien

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...an absolute disgrace. It was wanton thuggery and violence perpetrated by a very small minority of people. They were not on the streets to legitimately protest anything. They were there to loot, to destroy, to cause harm and to serve their own selfish needs. Let us be very clear: they do not represent Dubliners nor do they represent our city. What we saw with the riots on Thursday...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (22 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Restrictions on cutting hedgerows are set out in Section 40 of the Wildlife Act 1976, as amended. This Act stipulates that it is an offence to destroy vegetation on uncultivated land between the 1 March and the 31 August each year. It is a significant legal protection for our hedgerows and recognises the importance of this habitat for many bird and other species and as wildlife corridors. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (21 Mar 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Restrictions on cutting hedgerows are set out in Section 40 of the Wildlife Act 1976, as amended. This Act stipulates that it is an offence to destroy vegetation on uncultivated land between the 1st of March and the 31st of August each year. It is a significant legal protection for our hedgerows and recognises the importance of this habitat for many bird and other species and as wildlife...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (22 Feb 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Section 40 of the Wildlife Act 1976 creates two prohibitions that apply between 1 March and 31 August annually. - Subsection (1)(a) makes it an offence for a person to cut, grub, burn or otherwise destroy, during that period, any vegetation growing on any land not then cultivated. - Subsection (1)(b) makes it an offence for a person to cut, grub, burn or otherwise destroy, during that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (3 Mar 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...in respect of such an application may be appealed to An Bord Pleanála. Section 193(1) of the Act contains a special provision for structures substantially replacing structures demolished or destroyed by fire. Compensation may be claimed from a planning authority where there has been a refusal of permission for the erection of a new structure substantially replacing a structure...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (8 Mar 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: ...The Minister has received correspondence on that and it was raised previously. Have we or UNRWA received any compensation from the Israelis for UNRWA-funded or Irish Aid-funded schools that were destroyed recently?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: EU Foreign Affairs Council (25 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: .... Has the EU Foreign Affairs Council discussed the issue of the destruction of EU funded property by Israeli armed forces? Medical facilities, schools and other EU funded facilities have been destroyed, which is a big issue on which the EU should speak with one voice. I have engaged with departmental officials in recent weeks to try advance further Ireland's position with regard to the...

Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: ..., the Bill provides for offences to protect cultural property in the event of armed conflict including the exporting, removing, attacking, stealing, pillaging, appropriating, vandalising or extensively destroying cultural property. Under the Bill, there are penalties for committing offences with harsher penalties for extensively destroying or appropriating cultural property or for...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: ...The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has already spent €30 million on desktop audits for the greater Dublin drainage programme. It will apply to the Minister shortly for a foreshore licence to destroy the east coast with a sewage treatment plant that will be four times the size of Croke Park. Up to €1 billion has been scheduled to be spent on this project. Will...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: ...a close relationship with the Minister, that none of this was ever mentioned in conservation between the two of them? The Attorney General has claimed she intervened by stopping the recordings from being destroyed. When did she make this known to the Government? Does she at the Cabinet table and say nothing? There are many unanswered questions on the role of the Attorney General in...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: .... I attended a meeting last night in Rush with our agriculture spokesperson, Deputy Ó Cuív, which was attended by over 50 producers of vegetables and other crops. The Christmas period nearly destroyed this sector. Many of the multiples were selling carrots for €0.09 and broccoli for €0.06 - all below cost. This industry is effectively on its knees. We welcome...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: ...information, which they spouted before the election. Senior people in NAMA got it into their heads that they had to make a profit and they nearly drove me to suicide on valuations. They were hell bent on destroying the banks on valuations so that they could be shown in a good light later. There were perfectly good loans written down on the banks to keep the NAMA dream alive. I was the...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: Fracking destroys the countryside too.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: ...market. That is just one aspect and there is also the issue of what the Government is doing in charging private patients €800 per night for the use of a public bed, which will also help to destroy the private health insurance industry. Perhaps this is the Government's move towards universal health care in that nobody will be able to avail of it. This measure is regressive and...

Seanad: Garda Resources: Motion (6 Feb 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Burglary is a crime and while it may not be a crime on the person in every case, we must consider the after-effect on families whose homes have been violated and whose property has been stolen or destroyed. I hope the suggestion is not true and I ask the Minister to comment. Regardless of party, we all support the Garda Síochána 100%. We need a Minister in the Department to show the...

Seanad: Symphysiotomy: Statements (16 May 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Lourdes Hospital. I certainly know what a joy it was to have a child on 11 September 2008 when my daughter was born and what that meant to my wife and our family. That such a joyous occasion was destroyed in the main with the consequent pain that lives on, the knock on effect on women's lives, their husband's lives, and their children's lives, is an issue with which the State needs to...

Seanad: Tourism Amenities (21 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: ...in Malahide which is currently vacant, and I think the Minister of State would agree with me on that given his portfolio. We saw what happened in Belcamp College. It was stripped bare thus destroying a €250,000 building. We have agreed contracts with NAMA of €600,000 and have ample money - €1.5 million - to purchase the building and to restore the 1.9 acres around it as well as...

Written Answers — Military Medals: Military Medals (6 May 2009)

Darragh O'Brien: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Defence if his Department is still issuing certificates in lieu of lost or destroyed 1916 and War of Independence medals; the number issued in 2008 and to date in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17657/09]