Results 1-20 of 23 for destroyed speaker:Willie O'Dea

Environmental Impact of Quarries and Incinerators: Motion [Private Members] (4 Dec 2019)

Willie O'Dea: ...be fed for twenty to thirty years, and in order to be economic it needs an enormous input. So, for twenty to thirty years you stifle innovation, you stifle alternatives, just in order to feed that monster which you have built. Even if incineration could be made safe, it could never be made sensible. It does not make ethical or economic sense to spend so much time, money and effort...

Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (31 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: ...for the victims of the sexual and physical abuse suffered in Creagh Lane primary school. The victims in question have fought long and hard. Their lives have been undermined and, in some cases, destroyed as a result of what they suffered as innocent children in the care of the State. Is the Minister prepared to remove the two barriers to gaining access to the redress fund?

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Willie O'Dea: ...fair or just. Amendment No. 19 seeks to ensure a solvent firm that runs a defined benefit pension scheme cannot throw its hands in air claiming it is too much of a costly inconvenience, close it down and destroy people’s futures unless it is funded to at least 90% so that its members will at least get 90% of what they were expecting after paying into the scheme over many years....

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: ...that not a member of the Opposition, a journalist or other outside commentator but a Fine Gael TD, unnamed of course, said, referring to the Minister, Deputy Shatter: "It's his personality that's destroying him."

Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (4 Feb 2014)

Willie O'Dea: ...and I would appreciate direct answers because I am asking them on behalf of my constituents who are asking me the same questions. What will be the position on people whose houses have been destroyed and rendered uninhabitable? These houses fall into two categories, namely, those owned and rented by the local authority and those privately owned. Will the local authority effect repairs to...

Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)

Willie O'Dea: A few minutes ago, the Taoiseach spoke about the importance of hope and confidence in reigniting employment creation. Does he realise that the lack of credit is destroying hope and confidence?

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: ...? There is as much chance of this happening as the man had of finding El Dorado or the people had of finding the Holy Grail, when they all became lost, suffered from disease and illness or were destroyed. That objective has disappeared and the Government's own policies have helped to create this situation. I refer to lack of investment, regressive taxation and cuts in capital...

Microenterprise Loan Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (27 Jun 2012)

Willie O'Dea: ...in a crisis of unemployment and emigration. Everybody in this House, regardless of political ideology, knows the effects of unemployment. It corrodes social cohesion, shatters communities, destroys relationships, crushes hope and engenders despair. It has driven many people, both young and old, up to and beyond the limits of their endurance. I concede that the Government has made some...

Social Welfare Code (29 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: ...employers are already paying illness benefit substantially through employer's PRSI. There is no doubt the cost of such a scheme would be passed on to employees. It has a tremendous capacity to destroy jobs at the very time we least need to do something of that nature. What are the Minister's views on the reasoning put forward that part of the effect of such a scheme would be to combat...

Social Insurance (21 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: ...is to be employment-orientated. If that is the case, can the Minister tell me why the Government has not done anything to date about issues such as commercial rates, which are a guaranteed job destroyer? There is plenty of anecdotal evidence to support that. Why has the Government done nothing about upward only rents despite its pre-election promises? If there is a constitutional...

Action Plan for Jobs 2012: Statements (16 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: ...5% of the people, or one in every 20 families, gets by from one end of the week to the other by not paying gas or electricity bills, which is very serious. The decision to increase VAT is a job destroyer. Another decision taken in the budget was to make it more difficult and expensive for small firms, in particular, to let go people. I know a number of small and medium sized firms which...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Second Stage (17 Jan 2012)

Willie O'Dea: ...that Sundays are different. We have had to put up with an awful lot of guff since this debate started about how the meagre payments workers in this sector are getting for Sunday work are destroying the economy. We are told they are massive payments - people are coming up with the most extraordinary examples - and that the system is totally inflexible and cannot be changed. The hotel...

Workers' Remuneration: Motion (21 Jun 2011)

Willie O'Dea: ...€9 an hour. I know a few of them - they now get €3 an hour extra. Let us say they work four hours on a Sunday - that is an extra €12 before tax. Will interfering with or taking that away destroy the economy? In 1993 the British Government decided to abolish Sunday premiums but this action did not create a single solitary job, as all the studies show. That is the reality. I...

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Willie O'Dea: It is also the party that destroyed its own financial records. The information it failed to give to the Moriarty tribunal was about a $50,000 donation it received from the Norwegian telecommunications company, Telenor.

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

Willie O'Dea: ...in question remains in place and my Department continues to issue Medal certificates signed by me in cases where the 1916 Medal or other War of Independence-related Medal has been lost, stolen or destroyed. Since its introduction in 2006, 1,364 certificates have been issued including 128 in 2008 and 50 to date in 2009.

Written Answers — Disposal of Firearms: Disposal of Firearms (22 Oct 2008)

Willie O'Dea: ...belonging to the Garda Technical Bureau. This arrangement was for the purpose of storage only and lasted up until the closure of Clancy Barracks in December 2001. The Defence Forces did not destroy any weapons or ammunition on behalf of the Garda Technical Bureau during the period from 1 July 2000 and 31 August 2000 and had no involvement in any tender competition for the destruction of...

Waste Disposal. (2 Jul 2008)

Willie O'Dea: ...there could have lethal consequences. In this regard, it decided to exercise its powers under the Waste Management Act 1996 to ensure this material is taken to what it believes is a safe site and destroyed by an agreed and safe process. As regards what any of my colleagues did or did not say about the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, I must confess I did not...

Overseas Missions. (1 Feb 2007)

Willie O'Dea: ...the Irish, but also to civilians in southern Lebanon who have suffered quite enough. Some 1,000 civilians were killed directly in the conflict, more than 4,000 were injured and 30,000 homes were destroyed. I hope more co-operation will be forthcoming. The sooner this co-operation is forthcoming the more quickly we can get the job done.

Written Answers — Hearing Impairment Claims: Hearing Impairment Claims (16 Nov 2006)

Willie O'Dea: ...complaints, the Society has been informed that, as cases were concluded more than six years ago, the solicitors' files, including the documentation necessary to answer the complaint, have been destroyed. In such circumstances, the argument has been made that it would be contrary to natural justice and fair procedures to proceed with investigations where the solicitor complained of did not...

Overseas Missions: Motion. (11 Oct 2006)

Willie O'Dea: ...going to Lebanon and I am happy to provide such assurances. The Deputy also referred to the enormity of the physical damage, a point with which I concur. Approximately 30,000 buildings have been destroyed and as estimates of the damage come to between €3 billion and €6 billion, an enormous rebuilding job remains to be done. Deputy Timmins also asked whether, on the conclusion of the...