Results 1-10 of 10 for destroyed speaker:Tom Shehan

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (8 Dec 2015)

Tom Shehan: ...to insuring the house, it will cost the same if the value is between €150,000 and €250,000. That is the way bands are applied for home insurance. If somebody had the misfortune to have his or her home destroyed, could the insurance company say, "You had your home insured with us for €250,000, yet it was only valued at €150,000 for the purposes of the LPT"? Is...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Forestry Sector (16 Apr 2014)

Tom Shehan: I thank the Minister of State for providing this substantial reply. I am glad that forestry payments will not be affected for those whose plantations have been destroyed and that there will be no trimming of that. Much of this forestry is 15 or 20 years into a 30-year lifespan and so the value is minimal. The cost of the harvesting will probably be as much as will be achieved in selling...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Forestry Sector (16 Apr 2014)

Tom Shehan: I have been contacted by many private forest owners whose plantations were destroyed in the storms earlier in the year and who are not in a position to replant them. It is unfortunate that the Minister of State with responsibility for this area, Deputy Tom Hayes, cannot attend the House this evening. I am aware he had a prior engagement in Tipperary. If grants were made available for...

Seanad: Flooding and Flood Prevention Measures: Statements (20 Sep 2012)

Tom Shehan: ...when deciding on a planning application is to protect the skyline, and people often had to build their houses in hollows. Subsequent flooding has occurred and many of these houses have been destroyed. Women, in particular, will tell one that if a house has been flooded it is never the same. Local authorities always seem to worry about protecting the skyline although nobody speaks about...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2011)

Tom Shehan: ...Leader. The harp is the emblem of our State. I see it on Seanad paper, on Dáil paper and on the office of Uachtaráin na hÉireann. The same emblem is also the logo of Fianna Fáil, which has destroyed our country-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 Sep 2011)

Tom Shehan: ...Regulator in committee that he had done this before in another jurisdiction, he went pale. He came to the committee with a naive approach that he knew nothing about the credit union movement. He destroyed the credit union movement in Burma and he is trying to do the same here. He is a banker who is destroying to destroy the credit union movement.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2011)

Tom Shehan: ...400 jobs. It will cost the company €2.5 million to excavate 5,000 tonnes of waste. As I stated earlier, I am not an environmentalist but digging up ground to remove waste causes pollution and destroys our road network. Would it be possible to invite bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, which to my mind are not responsible to any Minister, before the House in order that...

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Jun 2011)

Tom Shehan: That is the progress which has been made and the way the Minister will get the country, which Senator Darragh O'Brien's party destroyed and brought it to its knees, back on track.

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (1 Apr 2009)

Tom Sheahan: ... the compensation package in place following the precautionary closure of Kenmare Bay, due to toxins being found in Bantry Bay recently; if toxins were found in Kenmare Bay and shellfish had to be destroyed under the food health directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13618/09]

Consumer Issues: Motion (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)

Tom Sheahan: ...industry and this impacts negatively on foreign direct investment. The tourism, hospitality and food sectors, which include restaurants, hotels, delicatessens and butcher shops, are being destroyed by over regulation. They are being hammered by environmental health officers, EHOs, week in, week out. When such regulation was needed over the past few months to save the pig industry, it did...