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Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...and causal negative impact on children, especially when it starts early in childhood and persists throughout. It affects everything, including emotional development, educational attainment, mental health, physical well-being, career opportunities and income in later life. It destroys and limits lives. The Government had an opportunity to tackle that and ultimately eradicate it, but it...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...somebody this grotesque level of income, we would somehow have a more ethical banking system? What is his thinking? The public is finding it very difficult to understand, given the lives that were destroyed, the enormous hardship imposed on so many people in this country and the huge social and economic damage done by our out-of-control banks. On what basis did the Minister come to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...in the Minister of State's Department or in any other Department. These were the people who were campaigning and saying we needed to respond and that this issue would get out of control and was destroying people's lives and communities. That was not listened to. Now, here the Minister of State is, in 2022, saying he is allocating €850,000 per year and we know one single task...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: ...their colleagues did in recent years through the introduction of the whole SHD nonsense and the related planning changes in respect of mandatory guidelines. There was not a word of apology for destroying many parts of Dublin city, in particular, and creating what will become the ghettos of the future, namely, the high-rise, low-quality apartment developments that litter our cities. There...

Health (Amendment) Act 2021: Motion (27 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: ...to at that point. As a result of that, however, and as a result of inadequate protections regarding the threat from travel, last year 2,000 people lost their lives, people's livelihoods were destroyed, tens and tens of thousands of people lost their jobs and their businesses and devastation was caused to people's lives. We have to reflect on that and on the opportunities that were there...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: ...market the first time around and Fine Gael then let vulture funds loose on the carcase for a decade with tax incentives and fast-track planning. Now both parties have joined forces in government and have been destroying the housing market. Two weeks ago, my colleague, Deputy Cian O'Callaghan, stood in this House and told the Tánaiste that 435 apartments in Ashtown, Dublin 15, had...

Scrambler Motorbikes and Quad Bikes: Motion [Private Members] (17 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: ...desperately needs to be dealt with. It is all very well to talk about diverting young people into other activities and we need more funding for youth services and sports activities. There is nothing worse and more soul-destroying for football teams than arriving for a match or training on a Saturday morning and discovering that their pitch has been churned up by this kind of activity....

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (7 Mar 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 209. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of dogs destroyed in each of the past three years for which figures are available by local authority and pound. [11332/19]

Implementing the National Drugs Strategy: Statements (28 Jun 2018)

Róisín Shortall: ...expert group, which is fine. I believe that should happen but let us not fool ourselves into thinking that will somehow solve the drugs problem. Some people have serious addiction problems that are destroying their lives. They need to be responded to and that is the hard end of the thing. In addition, let us not fool ourselves that it is all about heroin. Heroin treatment seems to be...

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Róisín Shortall: ...cycles rather than taking a longer term view of the welfare of citizens of the State and the world, whose interests are closely related. We are investing State funds in companies which are destroying our future. The response of the Government to the Bill is shocking and shameful. Late last year the World Meteorological Organization published findings which showed that in 2016 global...

Children and Family Relationships Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2015)

Róisín Shortall: ...a central register where provision is made for joint guardianship, as did the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality. If a statutory declaration for joint guardianship is signed but is subsequently mislaid or destroyed, there is no evidence of the fact the father has guardianship rights. Treoir states this can have dire consequences, such as the father losing contact...

Misuse of Motor Vehicles (Public Spaces) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2014)

Róisín Shortall: ...to play a match the pitch has been all dug up the previous night due to the use of scrambler bikes or mini-bikes. It costs a lot of money and takes a lot of time to reinstate a pitch that has been destroyed in such a manner to a point at which it is playable. The other point is that public parks are where parents take their children to ride tricycles or go to a playground and where the...

Macroeconomic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (28 Oct 2010)

Róisín Shortall: ...and about what the Government will do to them in the budget in December. That fear is a self-fulfilling prophecy as it stops people from living any kind of normal life, stops them spending and destroys consumer confidence. Of course, the mishandling of the economy and the ruinous bank bailout have destroyed confidence in the money markets also. We are asked to participate in this debate...

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Róisín Shortall: The Government has destroyed the country with mistake after mistake. It made a hash of everything and the ordinary people have to pay the price for its incompetence.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)

Róisín Shortall: ...people were not taking the jobs that are available. However, that is not the problem because there are no jobs for young people. The Minister should speak to constituents who have had the soul destroying experience of handing in their CVs doing everything they can to get a job, but the jobs just are not there. A person comes out of college with a good degree but has no chance of getting...

Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (9 Jun 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 96: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Office for Public Works will give due consideration to the funding and rebuilding of a boundary wall (details supplied) in Dublin 11 destroyed during torrential flooding in August 2008. [22108/09]

Departmental Agencies. (24 Sep 2008)

Róisín Shortall: ...office or may simply be abolished altogether. The Labour Party strongly believes that undermining the independence of the Combat Poverty Agency would be a retrograde step. It would completely destroy the objectivity of the only statutory organisation with a specific and all-encompassing role in the eradication of poverty. It would represent nothing less than the silencing of criticism of...

Proposed Aer Lingus Takeover. (5 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is the person who destroyed Aer Lingus.

Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (27 Oct 2005)

Róisín Shortall: ...in each of the past three years; the proposals he has to set down minimum standards for the operation of such pounds; his plans to set targets for the reduction in the percentage of dogs humanely destroyed at such facilities which currently run at a rate of 80% or over in 12 local authority areas; the policy initiatives he is taking at national level, including advertisement, public...