Results 1-20 of 40 for destroyed speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...homes and be cast into poverty if they sought an independent legal route. This is how the State behaved towards families who had suffered enormous loss and incalculable grief. The lives of victims' families were literally destroyed by the Stardust fire; destroyed lives of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, friends, and a child. Gertrude Barrett, the mother of Michael Barrett, who was...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...is on the line in Gaza. With every Palestinian killed in Israel's genocidal war, with every innocent Gaza child whose beautiful life is horrifically extinguished, with every family wiped out, home destroyed and hospital decimated, and with every refugee camp bombed, the humanity of the world slips further into the darkness. Ireland must now confront that darkness. Ireland must confront...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (‘Genocide Convention’) obliges parties to that Convention, including Ireland, to prevent genocide, which is defined in Article II as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of 75 years of oppression, occupation and apartheid. Israel's relentless onslaught means nowhere in Gaza is safe. Homes, hospitals and schools have been obliterated, places of worship destroyed and refugee camps bombed. Not even babies are safe. Newborn babies have died because incubators stopped working. On Sunday, 31 premature babies were evacuated from the decimated Al-Shifa...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..., including more than 4,500 children and more than 3,000 women. A child is killed every ten minutes in full sight of the world. Gaza is a graveyard of innocent children. Israel's bombardment has destroyed Gaza's health infrastructure. Hospitals are running out of fuel and the electricity needed to power vital equipment. Maternity care and cancer care, all care, is decimated. As the...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (25 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...with confidence, and by refusing to shout "stop", the international community has given it a licence to massacre the people of Gaza under the perverse pretext of defence. How can deliberately destroying hospitals be considered defence? Hospitals in Gaza are running out of the power they need to function. They are struggling to keep intensive care units going. In Gaza, incubators are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a brutally violent offensive military campaign. Hundreds of schools in Gaza have been destroyed. Its health infrastructure has been obliterated. The hospitals that remain functioning are quickly running out of fuel to keep generators going. As food runs out, the people of Gaza face starvation. As clean water runs out, they face the prospect of cholera. As they run out of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...despair the world watches the terrible violence and devastation in Israel and Gaza. Seared on our minds are scenes of civilians killed, wounded and taken hostage. There have been scenes of homes destroyed and entire neighbourhoods wiped out by military bombardment. Lives have been lost and shattered beneath the rubble. The scale of human suffering and the depth of grief is...

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...law sees Palestinians killed, jailed and tortured, Palestinian homes demolished, families driven from their villages, Palestinian schools bulldozed into the dust and Palestinian health clinics destroyed. Beleaguered, besieged and impoverished, Palestinians struggle for their very survival against an onslaught that is relentless. Annexation and the illegal settling of Palestinian lands...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the Taoiseach; and €1,100 per month for a bedroom, use of the kitchen and a utility room, but the rest of the house, which is in County Kildare, is off limits, which is the one I am now showing the Taoiseach. This is soul-destroying stuff. The rent crisis has had a devastating impact on the lives of an entire generation. People in their late 30s and 40s are stuck in house shares...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...their lesson? Did they hell. No, they did not. We only need to look at the tracker mortgage scandal, with thousands overcharged for their mortgages. Hundreds of people lost their homes and lives were destroyed as a result. Even when the banks were caught red-handed, they continued to do harm. This year alone, AIB and Bank of Ireland were fined over €197 million for regulatory...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...in the tent and how his children are coping, he said: It was a game at first. It’s not so much anymore. The last couple of nights haven’t been good. Wind, rain - that type of weather has already destroyed one tent. This one is holding up, but I don’t know how long it will last. I haven't got much sleep because I still have to be looking after the tent when the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..., says it is costing her and her partner an extra €50 a week each for fuel. This is a total of €100 a week in total. She has calculated this at €5,000 a year just to travel for work. She describes her situation as soul destroying. Ní théann an chéim seo sách fada. Ní mór dúinn an praghas ag na pumpaí a fháil...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and Reports of Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...puts it: They were merely a protected species as information about their involvement in killings was not shared with investigating officers and information regarding their involvement was routinely destroyed. Collusion was a structured, organised process that orbited the eventual act of murder. At the centre sat the British state every single time. I refer to the cover-ups, the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...for a procedure to which they are entitled, but now it is too late for them. Orthopaedic consultant Dr. Connor Green told the Joint Committee on Health in November that children's potential is being destroyed, physically and psychologically, because of all of this. Due to the wait, children who once walked independently are now in wheelchairs. This is a failure of vulnerable children. ...

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...refuses to hold the Minister, Deputy Coveney, to account. The Minister sought to make up a job for a friend and former colleague and, when caught red-handed, he went about covering his tracks. He destroyed records he was obliged to keep under law and twice fed a cock-and-bull story to a committee of the Oireachtas. This is by any standard an abuse of office. Sinn Féin was left...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Jun 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...homes, medical facilities, media centres, Covid-19 testing centres, schools, and a police station. It also heard that there is no evidence that any of these buildings that were targeted and destroyed had a military function, as had been claimed by Israel. The motion passed last week by the Dáil marks the most explicit and united call by any parliament in Europe against the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Feb 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 521. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation destroyed audio recordings of 550 interviews given to its Confidential Committee; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that section 43(2) of the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 provides...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Dec 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...attempt to cope with the global pandemic, the Israeli Government continues to compound the challenges faced by Palestinians through daily acts of aggression. This year alone, Israeli authorities destroyed more Palestinian homes than at any time in the last five years. These vicious acts of destruction are not confined just to residential homes; humanitarian infrastructure has also been...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...in Cork yesterday with Deputy O'Brien and our colleague, Councillor Thomas Gould, where I heard at first hand about the impact of this lack of Garda resources on communities in the city. Playgrounds have been destroyed, people are fearful to socialise in their own areas and there is desperate carry-on on the streets of the city, with intimidating and threatening behaviour from a small...