Results 1-20 of 122 for destroyed speaker:Mick Wallace

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...about terrorism, we seem to forget that state terrorism is the biggest form of terrorism on the planet by a mile. There is no comparison with any other form and the number of people killed and communities destroyed by what the Americans do through their military operations is frightening. We tolerate American terrorism while we introduce draconian laws to deal with acts that are far more...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...export almost €4 billion worth of arms to that area. Terrible things have happened in Libya lately. Those troubles began not with Gaddafi but with his overthrow in 2011 and the NATO bombing which destroyed the country. France has played a poor role of late. It was bad enough that France, the UK and the US led the bombing in 2011, caused untold destruction, ended up killing...

A Better World: Ireland's Policy for International Development: Statements (11 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...believe that aid is a commensurate, let alone honest and meaningful, solution to this kind of problem. The aid paradigm allows rich countries and individuals to pretend to fix with one hand what they destroy with the other, dispensing small bandages at the same time as they inflict deep injuries, and claiming the moral high ground for doing so. A few years ago I had the opportunity to...

An Bille um an Ochtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2018 : An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...to the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Iraq". Deputy Clare Daly and I visited Iraq last year and that is not the impression one would get of what happened because the place was destroyed. One cannot invade and destroy a country and at the same time respect its sovereignty and independence. That is not the way it works. The same motion welcomed the arrangements...

Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (28 Mar 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...east and I have spoken to many fishermen who are very concerned about huge Dutch multinational corporations with boats that are registered in Northern Ireland coming down to the south coast and destroying the mussel seed stocks. They use a Northern Irish register as a flag of convenience. How can we guarantee that boats registered in Northern Ireland are in fact Northern Irish owned and...

Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...dust, cement dust and crushed bleach crystals. It could be virtually anything. When a person takes contaminated heroin, it clogs up the veins, damaging one after another around the person's body and destroying it as it travels. This is the reason heroin addicts on the streets look in ill health, more so than just the heroin itself. One of the most important actions proposed in the...

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: .... That does not come close to dealing with the problem. As I stated previously, I was very disheartened when the Government came up with the idea of the Land Development Agency. It was soul destroying. I do not understand why the Government would turn over State land to developers. The sites will provide 10% social housing and 60% private housing. The Government states that 30%...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Policy (6 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: They allowed Shannon Airport to be used in destroying hundreds of thousands of lives in Afghanistan. Will Fianna Fáil ever learn anything? Is it any wonder the Taoiseach is not afraid of that party?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Policy (6 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...by American-owned companies and run millions of people out of their land in the region, many of whom end up on the Mexican-US border, trying to make new lives somewhere else after their lives have been destroyed. Do people realise that Mike Pence phoned Juan Guaidó on 22 January? The next day, Guaidó appointed himself President of Venezuela. The US, which advised the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Data (6 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...for profit. It is not safe to enter a forest because of the dependence on chemicals, despite what the Minister said. One would not want to anyway, as they do not support any flora or fauna, they destroy water quality and they acidify soils. Why does the Department not support more sustainable native tree cover initiatives, which are better at absorbing pollution and converting it to...

Ratification of EU and NATO Status of Forces Agreements: Motion (5 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...the creation of immigrants. A minimum of 36 million people have been displaced by war. We helped to bomb those people and now we want to put up walls to stop them coming into Europe because we have destroyed the communities in which they lived. It is horrific. All of the rationales fail to register the policies that have given rise to all of this. I refer to all of the efforts at...

International Protection (Family Reunification) (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...him out and put in their own fellow, Hadi. The internationally recognised government of Yemen is ruled by an American puppet, supported by the Saudis and the UN. Two years ago, when Yemen was being destroyed by the Saudis, with support from the US, UK and France, the UN told us almost 10,000 people were dead. It was the same the following year, and the year after that. They said again...

Climate Change: Statements (6 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...global warming as coal. This is why we are building infrastructure and planning to put commercial vehicles on our power plants. The Government is working for the extraction industry, which is destroying the planet, and not for the people who are suffering as a result. It is not just perpetuating an injustice on the Irish who will suffer tomorrow as a result of this inaction. The...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...me and said the place was hell on earth. Of late Deputy Clare Daly and I have been working with a number of refugees in direct provision centres. From what we are being told, they seem to be soul-destroying places in which to live. The Minister says improvements are being made. Am I right in thinking most of the facilities are still being run by the private sector? Who is making the...

Older People: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: .... The 550 additional packages would not even clear the 578 waiting in Wexford alone. The Fine Gael-Labour Party Government - it is interesting that the Labour Party did not turn up today - destroyed home care hours. The reported additional 550 care packages need to be seen in this context. Using the original 2011 HSE service goals for home care as a baseline, Care Alliance Ireland...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Deployment (21 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...law, we will be obliged to bring them to Italy. As we know, the last ship brought nobody there. The NATO mission that started all of this, with a UN mandate and the support of the Government, destroyed Libya which is now a dysfunctional state and out of control. Only last year CNN footage showed young black boys being sold as slaves for $400. France and the United Kingdom drove it with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Deployment (21 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...by interrupting smugglers but he is sending people back to violence. They would rather be killed than go back. He spoke of a UN mandate but we should not forget that the UN gave the mandate to destroy this place to begin with. There is no sense in what is going on. We should have nothing to do with this military mission. We are crucifying people by sending them back to Libya. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...radical. It is not the ESB or Aer Lingus. It promises to be crony capitalism at its finest. This is the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, mark 2, exactly what we do not need. It is soul destroying that the Government would appoint a former NAMA individual as chief executive officer. That is like getting the fox to mind the chickens. I will give an example of how crony...

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Instruction to Committee (19 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...thought the funding would be given to the builders. I find the Government's failure to deal properly with the housing crisis and the dysfunctional nature of how housing is supplied in this country soul-destroying at this stage. We have had a problem for a long time. It did not start under the Government. It started a long time ago, but it is continuing under the two Governments there...

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...employing almost 1 million people. One of the first things that the Free Syrian Army, Al-Nusra Front and Jaysh al-Islam did when they reached Aleppo was not to attack the Syrian army, but to destroy the industrial infrastructure. They had control over much of the plant in those factories. They looted them and moved the plant to Turkey. For confirmation, Dr. Ed Horgan of Shannonwatch,...