Results 1-15 of 15 for destroyed speaker:Jim Walsh

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Foreign Conflicts (21 Jan 2016)

Jim Walsh: ...or serious harming of people because they are part of a recognisable group, which may be national, ethnic, racial or religious. The convention identifies it as acts committed with the intent to destroy the group in whole or in part. The purpose of this Commencement matter is to call on the Minister and the Government to use all the influence at their disposal, at both the United Nations...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Boko Haram Insurgency: Chargé d’Affaires at the Embassy of Nigeria (16 Dec 2015)

Jim Walsh: ...that Saudi Arabia has published another year's worth of public school textbooks that promote hateful ideas against various minorities. A Saudi imam whose public sermons have beseeched God to destroy Christian, Jews, Alawites and Shias is reportedly still employed as a Saudi education official and serves as a frequent guest on Saudi Arabia's State television channel. I have mentioned a...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Jim Walsh: ...treatment with her cohabiting partner who was not her husband. Following the creation of embryos and prior to their implementation, the couple split and her partner requested that the embryos be destroyed. Ms Evans wanted to continue with the implementation. She had, unfortunately, been diagnosed with ovarian cancer so the embryos represented her only chance of having biologically...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Nigeria: Ambassador of Nigeria (28 May 2014)

Jim Walsh: ...first question. Second, the ambassador said it was categorically clear that the insurgency is not a religious war, as both Christians and Muslims have been killed and had their places of worship destroyed. As I said earlier, this issue has not been particularly well publicised in this country and the same is probably the case elsewhere in the Western world. My understanding is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Syria: Dr. Thomas Pierret (16 Apr 2014)

Jim Walsh: ...as bad or worse than the disease? We have seen that in other places in the Middle East. I just read a report in today’s newspaper, for example, that in Maaloula – a town that has been totally destroyed – Christians were driven out and some of them were killed. Moderate Islamists were also killed. I look at what the US did, for example, in Iraq. I doubt there are...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Jim Walsh: ...not happy with the section is it is a misnomer. The Title should convey what the Bill is about. If the Bill is about anything, it is very definitely not about the protection of life. It is about destroying life, particularly the life of the unborn. It may be argued - I accept and concede it may be so argued - in regard to sections 7 and 8, that it will have the effect of protecting...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)

Jim Walsh: ...have are token gestures, such as reducing the number of Deputies by a very small number, a proposal to abolish the Seanad and the abolition of town councils. That is not political reform. That is destroying and dismantling our political structures to no political or democratic benefit. Recently, the Committee of Public Accounts, probably the most important committee of the Oireachtas,...

Seanad: Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (6 Dec 2012)

Jim Walsh: ...and a grandchild. The grandfather acknowledged that he was the result of a rape. I refer to my point about the continuum of life. When the life of the unborn is terminated, an entire lineage is destroyed. In advance of the budget all parties were anxious to acknowledge that we had a duty of care to protect the most vulnerable in society.

Seanad: Privacy Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Mar 2012)

Jim Walsh: ...within the organisation which is the national broadcaster, a complete disregard not only for the truth and good investigative practices, but also for the reputation of those whose lives can be destroyed as a consequence. I know people against whom false allegations were made and who, subsequently, as result of the pressures that were brought to bear on them personally, committed suicide....

Seanad: Unemployment: Motion (1 Jul 2009)

Jim Walsh: ...experiencing the blight of unemployment. In the earlier years of my political life, in the 1970s, I worked at local government level during a period of high unemployment which people found soul-destroying. The problem was even more acute in the 1980s when we had a very high unemployment rate. The effect on the unemployed and their families was devastating. The Government has been...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2009)

Jim Walsh: I was appalled that a pub on the north side of Dublin was destroyed by a group from the Traveller community that ran out of control. We need to debate that issue. Publicans, who have an obligation to run and manage their premises, are not in a position to decide on who they will serve because the equality legislation is not being used as intended.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Jim Walsh: If the agenda of this unrepresentative group started with embryonic stem cell research, where embryos are destroyed and one prevents life occurring, and is moving to involuntary euthanasia and killing people when they get to a stage in life where they are not useful or productive, what is next? Infanticide?

Seanad: Criminal Law (Admissibility of Evidence) Bill 2008: Second Stage (10 Dec 2008)

Jim Walsh: ...on different points of law it must be tempting to engage in the process. However, doing so has sometimes given rise to public confidence in the system being put at risk. It can also be soul-destroying to gardaí who perhaps have put much time, effort and energy into preparing and compiling evidence and presenting their cases to find that on a technicality they are thrown out, despite all...

Seanad: Stem-Cell Research (Protection of Human Embryos) Bill 2008: Second Stage (26 Nov 2008)

Jim Walsh: ...' section. The same full human essence is present everywhere along the continuum. He could have gone further. It is not just a life. We all started as zygotes and developed because we were not destroyed. On a pro-life basis, we must oppose the destruction of the embryo because destroying it would not only affect that life, but also the progeny it might produce. We do not have the...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (29 Oct 2008)

Jim Walsh: ...O'Toole has said regarding our failure to bring legislation through these Houses. I am not persuaded by the spokesman for UCC who argued that it is an acceptable procedure because the embryo is destroyed prior to the removal of the stem cell strips. I see that as analogous to somebody who is caught with child pornography denying his or her instrumentality in the abuse of the children...