Results 1-20 of 23 for destroyed speaker:Willie Penrose

Environmental Policy: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2019)

Willie Penrose: ...collective environmental health. A total of 1,500 people is not a manufactured figure dragged up out of someone's head. It is a figure from the Environmental Protection Agency. Lives are being destroyed and lost because of this. There is a more general point for the midlands. Carbon emissions from Irish homes are almost 60% higher than the EU average. We are the worst in the EU. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)

Willie Penrose: ...x20ac;1.10 or €1.11. Depreciation of 2% or 5% will increase the value of the euro to €0.90 or €0.91. Regardless of the outcome of Brexit, there will be a depreciation in currency, although I accept a hard Brexit would destroy the sector. How will the ICSA account for currency fluctuations of that level? It is best not to focus too much on the 53% of the British...

Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Willie Penrose: .... There is a clear need for the implementation of exceptional mitigation measures because of our particular situation and unique circumstances. Tariffs are a tax on trade and commerce. These impositions will effectively destroy a significant volume of our agrifood exports to the UK. Tariffs are taxes. They are collected and go into central funds, be they Exchequer or EU. Clearly they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Sector: Discussion (28 Mar 2017)

Willie Penrose: ...of it. We are the direct opposite of that. We have excellent quality beef with green image, including organic beef, going out. We are competing against that with our certification standards while they are destroying us on price and may well undercut us and destroy our market. What is the level of exodus from the farm organic scheme at the end of each cycle? We were given to understand...

Topical Issue Debate: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Administration (7 Feb 2017)

Willie Penrose: ...town councils. I accept there were some councils where one got elected with only 40 or 50 votes. However, we rushed to regionalise town councils which represented 4,000 people and in the process destroyed local government. I admit we did not keep our eye on that ball. This is the same. I have my eye on this ball, however, and I am not going to allow the same mistake happen. Once...

Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)

Willie Penrose: ...hard to improve their homes, to maintain them and discharge the substantial mortgages associated with them. Then they return from an evening out or wake up the next morning to find their home has been destroyed, burgled or ransacked, sometimes damaged beyond repair with their valuables taken.

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Willie Penrose: ...so. Their contribution to the nation's needs will be joyously measured when they resume their central role in family life, which is so dear to the well-being of this nation but which has been all but destroyed by fear, anxiety, loss, loathing, emigration and mental stress. Let us place to one side the predictable response of the ill-informed and ignore the crass suggestion that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land: Coillte (3 Apr 2014)

Willie Penrose: ...for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Coillte will be aware of the importance of this situation in a context in which the British Government will not allow its rural landscape to be devastated and destroyed. The UK Minister for Energy and Climate Change, Mr. Davey, MP, has had to change course. The UK Prime Minister, Mr. Cameron, MP, has changed course. They are now looking at fracking...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2013)

Willie Penrose: ...run small businesses, shops, garages and post offices and also farmers are all self-employed and they provide much-needed employment in rural areas in particular. What is proposed would deal them a hammer blow and would destroy their plans and projections. Business people have informed me that the implementation of this proposal would lead to a rise in unemployment. It would even have...

Promissory Notes Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2013)

Willie Penrose: ..., has one objective only, that is, the control of inflation. Therefore, the ECB cannot create money and when it advanced emergency liquidity to IBRC, it insisted that the money be repaid and destroyed. It is difficult to believe that this is what the promissory notes involved but effectively what occurred was that every year the Government would hand over €3 billion of taxpayers'...

National Minimum Wage: Motion (14 Dec 2010)

Willie Penrose: ...table they are being hit with three cuts, namely, a cut in the minimum wage, a cut in child benefit and a cut in social welfare benefit. Cutting the minimum wage is counterproductive as it will destroy jobs and damage consumer spending.As I stated, the cut represents a possible reduction of as much as €150 million, which is all the more pointless when we know it is the lower-wage...

Farming and Agri-Food Sector: Statements (25 Nov 2009)

Willie Penrose: ...have caused untold damage, particularly along the Shannon basin and catchment area, with torrents of rain wreaking havoc and devastation across wide geographical areas and people's houses being destroyed and so on. We have seen the picture of desolation arising from this natural disaster. I congratulate the many emergency workers and volunteers who continue to work hard to ensure that...

Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Willie Penrose: ...? Why did the HSE steal money which was due to the hospital? Some €1.5 million was to be provided to it but only €0.5 million was received. The monster must be emasculated because it is destroying the health service and the people of Longford-Westmeath will not stand for it. Hundreds of patients are now very worried. This is a matter of life and death. Acute beds are being...

Government Charges on Businesses: Motion (20 Oct 2009)

Willie Penrose: ...one of the biggest problems for businesses was not rates but rents. Rents are a multiple of the rates bill for many businesses, and it would not be a profitable solution for small businesses to destroy the local government funding base and local authority jobs. The Labour Party has been always to the forefront in trying to protect local authority and public service jobs. These workers...

Small Claims (Protection of Small Businesses) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Jun 2009)

Willie Penrose: ...? A person with an idea for a business should have his or her grant topped up with a social welfare payment. That payment would then subsidise a job. No one wants to be unemployed. It is soul destroying. We no longer have the safety valve of emigration. People used emigrate to England or Australia and, sadly, never come back. Now we do not even have that safety valve. Approximately...

Order of Business (23 Apr 2009)

Willie Penrose: It has destroyed the farming community and it will hear a lot more about that.

Order of Business (23 Apr 2009)

Willie Penrose: Farmers cannot get burial licences, but must go to the nearest vet. It is a disaster that will come back to haunt the Minister. The Government may save €28 million, but it will destroy the environment.

Estimates for Public Services 2007 (31 Oct 2007)

Willie Penrose: ...where this idea emanated from as the existing equal opportunities childcare programme is excellent and benefited 62,000 children through 33 city and county child care providers. This change could destroy villages and there has been an eruption against it that crosses the urban-rural divide. Only four weeks ago the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Smith,...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (20 Feb 2007)

Willie Penrose: Question 542: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is grant assistance available to persons who wish to remove and destroy asbestos from their general housing environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5985/07]

Social Welfare Code. (10 Oct 2006)

Willie Penrose: ...and returning to education. I was given an assurance by the Minister in this House and I consider such an assurance to be equivalent to a solemn oath. The Minister's predecessor, Deputy Coughlan, destroyed many schemes. She was the worst ever Minister for Social and Family Affairs and tried to emasculate every scheme she got her hands on. She increased the qualifying period of...