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Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Eamon Scanlon: .... There should be help available to support them. I am aware of cases where families have been wiped out because of a member of the family gambling, especially online. I have seen families destroyed and businesses people had worked extremely hard to build up wiped out practically overnight because it was too late when the other spouse heard about it. The damage was done. It had gone...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: ...faith with our pre-election promises. Fine Gael, which has been in government since 2011, has stood idly by while rural Ireland, agriculture and farming are going through a very bad patch. The beef genomics scheme, which was referred to earlier, is destroying the beef herd. It is not working. Farmers in the scheme get paid €80 a calf or cow but farmers outside the scheme are...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: ...is trying to do about alcohol. I fully understand, as does everyone in this House and outside it, the damage alcohol does, whether it be fatalities on the road from drink-driving or families destroyed. No one likes this and no one wants to see it, and we are not trying to protect it. What we are trying to do is protect the jobs that have been created in a reasonable manner in order that...

Supporting the Suckling Sector: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2018)

Eamon Scanlon: ...cow will produce, whether it is Aberdeen Angus, Hereford, Charolais or Limousin. There is absolutely no comparison in the wide earthly world to what a Friesian cow will produce. This is wrong. We will destroy our beef industry. I know cases of Friesian cows with five stars and good suckler breeding stock, well-bred over many years, with one star and two stars. What is going on does...

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (24 May 2017)

Eamon Scanlon: ...and so on but in which schools had closed and people had moved away. We are not talking about one well in an area and we could be talking about 50 or 60 wells within 2 square miles. It absolutely destroys the environment from a visual point of view and also from a health point of view. That programme showed someone turning on a tap and then lighting a match, and the water coming out of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Policy Issues arising from the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016 and the EPA report on Hydraulic Fracturing: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Eamon Scanlon: ...are environmental disasters, quite honestly. I have talked to people who live close to these sites. Often there is not just one pad; there could be 150 or 200 pads within a small area. This destroys the whole area and the quality of life for the people who live there. I see that CDM Smith has been in business for 70 years and is a big company with 5,000 staff and 140 offices globally....

Topical Issue Debate: Nitrates Usage (4 Oct 2016)

Eamon Scanlon: ...than usual. The recent bad weather had devastated tillage farmers' crops in some counties. Fianna Fáil has called for an emergency fund to be created to cater for farmers who have seen their farmland destroyed. A fodder scheme is needed to support farmers who have lost hay, silage and straw. I urge the Minister to take a reasoned approach to this issue and to accommodate farmers...

Seanad: Animal Diseases: Statements. (20 Oct 2005)

Eamon Scanlon: ...State to the House and I am glad of the opportunity to address this important issue. With regard to avian influenza, the Minister of State has stated that 150 million chickens and turkeys have been destroyed. If it came into this country it would have a devastating impact. We must be exceptionally vigilant. The Minister is very much aware and has set up an early warning system supported by...

Seanad: Suicide Incidence: Statements. (19 May 2005)

Eamon Scanlon: ...because doing so makes it better understood. Young people should know there are structures available to help them. If we start there it may be of help. Alcohol is a problem, of course, and drugs destroy lives, which we all know. I wish the Minister of State well in whatever he does. This is a serious and difficult problem that will not be solved easily. All we can do is continue to try to...

Seanad: Tsunami Disaster: Statements. (2 Feb 2005)

Eamon Scanlon: ...Affairs, Deputy Dermot Ahern, visited the disaster zone with our main agencies and has spoken movingly of the devastation he witnessed in the affected regions. Whole towns and communities have been destroyed, particularly in Indonesia and Sri Lanka. The Irish agencies and their counterparts in the region have responded, as they have done so many times in the past, to the enormous...