Results 1-16 of 16 for destroyed speaker:Ruairi Quinn

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Deaths of Irish Citizens in Tunisia: Expressions of Sympathy. (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: ...countries like Tunisia. There has been a systematic attack, first on the Bardo museum and subsequently on Tunisia's tourist industry which employs an enormous number of Tunisian people. If one destroys the economies of those fragile, semi-developed countries, one inevitably precipitates an exodus of refugees desperately trying to get to the northern shores of the Mediterranean. This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: ...the balance when politicians, such as the former US President George W. Bush and the former British Prime Minister Mr. Blair, have the audacity to intervene on humanitarian grounds and completely destroy a fragile or stable dictatorship and unleash such chaos as we have seen in recent months. In Mr. O'Gorman's view, has any significant progress, on the ground as distinct from the...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: ...the records relating to child abuse will ensure that the most shameful part of our history is never forgotten. The 18 religious congregations only consented to participate in the process on condition that the records would be destroyed. I have written to the congregations and informed them of my intention to preserve those records through legislation passed with the consent of this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (15 Oct 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: ...this information in relation to awards by the Redress Board. While I understand that the July RISF Board meeting was presented with a very preliminary analysis of the data, this analysis is being destroyed. Following discussions with my Department, the RISF has confirmed that the information received from the Redress Board will only be used for the purpose set out in the Act and that...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Ruairi Quinn: ...The Minister, Deputy Shatter, is a member of Fine Gael working closely with colleagues from the Labour Party in this coalition that is attempting to rebuild this country that was so systematically destroyed by Fianna Fáil, as the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan has described. We are having a three-hour debate on a motion of confidence in this man here beside me who has worked...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: ...is no family, no small business and no country can run a permanent budget deficit. The cycle must be balanced over a period of time. Unfortunately, because the tax base of this country was destroyed when the boom economy went bust, revenues plummeted. As the Deputy knows, the gap between revenue and expenditure is still there and although it is narrowing, we must still reduce...

Financial Resolution No. 7: Stamp Duties (6 Dec 2011)

Ruairi Quinn: ...questions have been asked and many issues have been raised about property. These will be for another day. I will be more than happy to come to the Chamber to describe in detail how Fianna Fáil destroyed the original tax breaks.

EU-IMF Programme of Financial Support: Motion (15 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: ..., as we have done in the past. I hope the Irish people, particularly this generation, will realise that the people on the other side of this House, who proclaim their virtue of republicanism, have destroyed the Republic that was proclaimed in 1916.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: ...This is not parish pump politics; it is a question of national solidarity with an institution that works and whose existence has evoked an extraordinary loyalty. Yet the Minister of State wants to destroy it. I urge him to accept our amendment. If necessary, the Minister, Deputy Harney, can introduce the change in the Seanad. I ask the Minister of State to do a "Noel Treacy" on this...

Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: ...not know whether I have the courage or the capacity to do so, but the bits I have read are such that no matter how horrific they are, the last thing that should ever happen to them is that they be destroyed. The last thing that should ever occur to them is that they disappear as some files have disappeared in the Department of Education and Science. The last thing that this republic...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (17 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 379: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the measures he is taking to ensure that the wildlife habitats in Toomes, County Louth are not being destroyed by the building of the proposed 450 megawatt turbine plant nearby; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5615/09]

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: ..., but he can reflect upon it. With the infrastructural constraints we had in the economy at that time, the boost in economic activity to that extent was such that the construction industry was destroyed in the following way. We all remember it. People were saying that they did not want to know how much it would cost, they just wanted to know when the builder could start. That was the...

Written Answers — Natural Heritage Areas: Natural Heritage Areas (19 Oct 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: ...the work being undertaken by his Department and the Office of Public Works regarding the restoration and reconstruction on the south peak of Skellig Michael, the way, a 9th Century altar came to be destroyed; if UNESCO were informed of the work being undertaken; if not, the reason for same; the further reason there is no world heritage management plan in place for the site and no...

Written Answers — Election Management System: Election Management System (30 Mar 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: ...of each machine; if this information will be made available to Deputies in electronic format as well as on Dáil Éireann record; the details of these machines which have been damaged, repaired or destroyed; the number of machines purchased by the State; the number currently in the possession of the State; his plans to scrap or recycle these machines; and if he will make a statement on the...

European Council: Statements. (29 Mar 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: ...of an historic debate on democracy. There was a time when journalists were not allowed into democratic assemblies and it was forecast that civilisation, as it was then known, would be ultimately destroyed if they were allowed listen to our proceedings. We have some crazy relics of that past. A member of the public in the Visitors Gallery is not allowed to take notes. Anyone doing so will...

Roads Infrastructure: Motion. (23 Nov 2004)

Ruairi Quinn: ...Island in Galway that it will not stop here. Not just Irish citizens but also European citizens, aware that the European heritage lying beneath the soil in County Meath will be damaged, if not destroyed, by this intemperate and precipitate action, will use the institutions of the courts at national and European level and the delays the Minister dreads will become real. The costs that he...