Results 1-20 of 21 for destroyed speaker:Brendan Ryan

Report of Joint Committee on Climate Action: Motion (9 May 2019)

Brendan Ryan: ...one obvious example. Labour called for a just transition task force to be set up, along with a fund, to make sure that we create new good jobs in the midlands to ensure that communities there are not destroyed economically by the loss of hundreds of good jobs in Bord na Móna. The same just transition approach should be taken across the board. Will the Government establish a...

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019)

Brendan Ryan: ...shuttle between Blanchardstown and Dublin city homeless services and filling out endless forms only to receive a phone number at the end of it for self-accommodation. That is demoralising and soul destroying for those people. Single homeless men have been thrown to the wolves due to absurd administration rules laid down by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive. They cannot avail of bed...

Forestry Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2013)

Brendan Ryan: ...damage from disease, invasive species, pests and other organisms. Last week we learned of confirmed reports of ash dieback at a plantation in Leitrim containing imported ash trees. The trees were destroyed in a bid to contain the outbreak and avoid the spread of the disease as has occurred on mainland Europe. Section 29 empowers the Minister to make regulations to protect our trees,...

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (10 Feb 2010)

Brendan Ryan: ...an unemployed person may need to contend as a direct result of losing his or her job. People are forced to deal with social welfare services for the first time, possibly a lengthy process and soul destroying experience. It is a disgrace that it can take up to 22 weeks to receive job seeker's allowance. In the meantime, many of our constituents believe they must go cap in hand to...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...to the United Nations there are one million cluster bomblets in southern Lebanon waiting to be handled by vulnerable civilians who are trying to get back to the homes that were so brutally destroyed. Given that there is a fundamental issue involved, I call for a debate in the near future on the situation in the Middle East to see whether we can assert some moral influence to restore the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...Israel treats the people of Gaza. Israel bombed a power station, and without a doubt, children will die throughout Gaza because electricity is not available to them and because the roads have been destroyed. I have a hierarchy of values and the victims of oppression come at the top of my hierarchy. My great hero of Irish politics is Daniel O'Connell.

Seanad: National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006: Second Stage. (27 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...image from outside the sport is fair game. I do not have a problem with any extra funds they can acquire from appearances, etc. However, as rugby people will affirm, getting paid for playing nearly destroyed rugby. Although one acquires a paid elite, in a country as small as Ireland, such players remain dependent on many voluntary workers. The existence of a paid elite makes it much more...

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (31 May 2006)

Brendan Ryan: ...on benchmarking on which we have a long recorded difference. The fundamental problem with benchmarking was that many of the participants in the private sector demanded that all the records be destroyed because they did not want what they regarded as confidential information about wages to enter the public domain. Senator Brian Hayes is right to say that it is important for trade unions in...

Seanad: WTO Negotiations: Statements. (7 Dec 2005)

Brendan Ryan: ...lose a little but many people in the rest of the world would gain. What we may well get now is simply a world which is even easier for transnational corporations to manipulate and, probably, to destroy.

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report Stage. (28 Jun 2005)

Brendan Ryan: ...they might well be embarrassing. An issue surrounds the retention of this material and a good case can be made for provision, at least in the guidelines for the Garda Commissioner, for securing and destroying this material as it ceases to be relevant. I would like reassurance from the Minister on a point raised by Senator Jim Walsh. I assumed if CCTV was used in private firms it would...

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 May 2005)

Brendan Ryan: ...regarding benchmarking. The last benchmarking report had no background information because IBEC insisted that every scrap of information it submitted about private sector salaries should be destroyed so that it would not become accessible. That is why there was no back-up report. There were only conclusions without any back-up because the employers' group, in particular, was very insistent...

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion. (2 Feb 2005)

Brendan Ryan: ...we are all republicans — an honourable term with an honourable history. I do not propose to hand it over any more than I was ever prepared to hand over a monopoly claim to socialism to those who destroyed human rights all over eastern Europe. In those days I believed that the republican movement, as it called itself, and those who supported it had managed to walk themselves up an...

Seanad: Road Network: Motion. (24 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: .... I was a young person still at school when the ESB decided to knock down a large part of Fitzwilliam Street's Georgian heritage. I was an obstreperous student in college when attempts were made to destroy a large part of Hume Street's Georgian heritage; since then I have changed only my occupation, not the adjective that describes me. Attempts were made to do other things, many of which...

Seanad: Report of National Advisory Committee on Drugs: Statements (Resumed). (3 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: ...be the same as that used in respect of a 16 year old from Farranree or Togher in Cork or the inner city of Dublin. Similar approaches should be used as it is just as wrong, or probably worse, to destroy the life prospects of such a youngster. There is an issue of perspective. On the question of what works, I had the good fortune of spending a few days with Deputies Gregory, Durkan and...

Seanad: International Development Association (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (7 Jul 2004)

Brendan Ryan: ...is perhaps a bad pun, but that is what happened. The pet projects of tyrants expanded while there were cuts in public expenditure. Apparently these institutions seemed to believe that one could destroy primary education and basic services aimed at reducing the incidence of infant mortality and still develop a country. The fact is it has taken a long time and the work of numerous NGOs to...

Seanad: Hospital Services: Motion. (30 Jun 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Six years ago I said he was the worst Minister for Finance this country has ever had and I have been proven right. He is a disaster for this country. He has destroyed the heart of Fianna Fáil and turned it into an extension of the Progressive Democrats.

Seanad: Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Apr 2004)

Brendan Ryan: ...the Opposition has behaved with extraordinary restraint on the issue of immigration. The Government should be grateful that we had, until recently, a consensus on immigration but that has been destroyed. As it has been destroyed, my party will be voting against this Bill in the House and will be campaigning against it in the country.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Oct 2003)

Brendan Ryan: ...that be, the European Union and the United States, must resume a position of clear balance on the Palestinian issue and stop blaming a non-existent authority for the prevalence of crime. Having destroyed the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian security forces, they then turn around and say it is their fault. What do we want? Do we want civil war between the Palestinians? It is time...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: ...people have become inured. It is time the House had a debate on foreign affairs with particular emphasis on Iraq. Donald Rumsfeld is reported this morning as having said he thinks Iraq perhaps destroyed all of its weapons of mass destruction in the period of the invasion. He was asked the reason the Iraqis had not used their weapons and replied that because the war had lasted such a short...

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 May 2003)

Brendan Ryan: ...of relativities in the public service and wanted something based on private sector practice. The problem was that the private sector demanded that all the records of the benchmarking body be destroyed, so we do not know how that body came to any of its conclusions. It is a bit ridiculous to blame the people who have to some degree benefited from benchmarking for the incompetence – or the...