Results 1-20 of 23 for destroyed speaker:Patrick O'Donovan

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (11 May 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...flooding ran into the billions of Euro and in the Wallonia region in Belgium alone was estimated at €5.2 billion. In this area 45,000 houses and buildings were damaged, 11,000 cars were destroyed and 150,000 tonnes of debris was generated and 3,000 people ultimately had to be rehoused due to the destruction and damage to their homes. It was described as one of the greatest natural...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Monuments (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...luminaries go in and scratch their names on national monuments. So and so was here. Fair play to them but in a 1,000 years their name will be scratched on to it but the monument will have been destroyed. I will use this opportunity again to mention that the OPW has asked people, where possible, to engage with An Garda and the local authorities but I will certainly ask that a further...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...Council or the Garda that is responsible for all of this. Also, we do not own the property outside. We will keep an open mind about this matter. I am not satisfied with the fact that yobs destroy national heritage and use them a public lavatory, which is another problem. Clare Abbey is located close to a motorway. Some people, after they come off the motorway, tip all of their...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Apr 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...why they did not clap. One can see in his face and from his facial expressions, by his demeanour and from photographs that have been taken of him, how this war has run President Zelenskyy down and how it has destroyed his country and his people. They used these mar dhea excuses, together with their colleagues in the European Parliament in some sort of warped ideology, not to support him....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Flood Risk Management (19 Jan 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...go up to the High Court for judicial reviews and challenges and everything like that. In the meantime, the flood waters continue to rise and people's houses, businesses and lives continue to be destroyed. They cannot get insurance. It is a hamster wheel, with the same thing happening repeatedly. I keep coming in here with the same reports and answers. These people deserve better and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implications of Brexit for Transport, Tourism and Sport: Discussion (31 May 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...use such as communions, weddings and so on. The Senator is correct to say that the development of any town in the country requires a basic piece of infrastructure such as a hotel. It is soul destroying for a town when a hotel goes. The locals see that they cannot hold a meeting, a wedding or a wake for a funeral. There is no doubt that it is very difficult. Part of what the Senator...

Topical Issue Debate: Public Service Obligation Services (1 Oct 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...a greater determination of what is considered public service broadcasting. Let me cite two examples. The Fr. Kevin Reynolds situation was a scandal because his reputation could have been absolutely destroyed. The other example concerns the debate broadcast in advance of our most recent presidential election. I was never going to give Seán Gallagher a vote and do not make any bones...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...lorries and moved south of the Border. It has been ongoing for years and, to be quite honest, is not being taken seriously. Cars of people who buy diesel in good faith from garages are being destroyed all over the country, from County Cork to County Donegal. The latest figures show that the Exchequer is happy to fork out €3.7 million to Louth County Council, €1.18 million...

Independent Planning Regulator: Motion [Private Members] (12 May 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...estates in some parts of this country and wonder to oneself was there any planning authority supervising what was built. One can travel through towns where Georgian facades to buildings have been destroyed. Again, one wonders was there any planning authority in the area. Was it because the group of people involved in this particular element of building were above the law that they could...

Mortgage Arrears and Repossessions: Motion [Private Members] (28 Apr 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: .... Some of the comments made by previous speakers were nauseating. Some of the Opposition speakers belong to a party which left the country with a rotting carcass of an economy, one which had been destroyed by their actions, while others belong to a political party which believed until recently that the solution to our problems lay in following the path of the Greek Syriza party. I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Tourism Industry: Discussion (17 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...the people who work for them to criticise in a constructive way Opposition proposals regarding pre-budget submissions, because some of the Opposition's proposals are so off the wall that they would destroy the industry. It is talking about wealth taxes, increases in employer's PRSI and jacking up service charges and commercial rates because they do not want people paying for domestic...

Nursing Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (11 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...forget what it did. The motions that appear before the House every three weeks lack credibility. Fianna Fáil’s research office would want to do something about that. Coming from the party that destroyed this country the motions have no credibility-----

Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (24 Sep 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...spoke about a friend of his who was asked why he did not get involved in sports like Johnny up the road. His parents wanted to know why he was not bringing home the cup. As a teacher, I know that such comments can be soul-destroying for young people. We need to reflect on how we articulate our desire for people to get involved in sport, especially at a young age. Teachers are conscious...

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...in Dublin is out. In some instances, it is the case that even with a good job, being able to rent an apartment or house in Dublin is out. We are slowly but surely reverting to the situation which destroyed the country. We must take it very seriously. We cannot allow a situation to re-emerge where people must commute to Dublin from Kilkenny, Mullingar, Longford and places like that due...

Topical Issue Debate: Flood Prevention Measures (13 Feb 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...it virtually impossible for anything to be done with the river and the rivers and streams draining into it. If we have learned anything in recent weeks, when people's private property has been destroyed, it is that we need to examine this issue in a far more succinct way. I wish to put some proposals to the Minister of State in this regard. In the context of the new rural development...

Northern Ireland: Statements (Resumed) (5 Feb 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...To that end, we must all, through any engagement we have, no matter how low the level, encourage the parties to ensure the outstanding issues of the agreement are discussed further. I do not accept the prophecy of those who want to destroy this agreement that these issues cannot be resolved. For the most part, these are the same people who said there would never be an agreement. They...

Topical Issue Debate: Public Sector Allowances Payments (5 Dec 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...Departments because what has been unearthed in the Central Remedial Clinic is symptomatic of what was wrong with this country for the previous 14 years in the type of cronyism and nepotism that has destroyed the country. Support needs to be given to the Minister for Health but, in addition, space needs to be given to ensure the investigation is proper.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (7 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a gun licence is removed from a person and is not renewed within a number of years can the Garda have the gun destroyed. [12119/13]

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jan 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...with tobacco plants today, this substance would be banned. That is the point from which we need to start to look at this issue. It is a highly addictive toxic carcinogen. It has the potential to destroy people's lives. I have a concern from a public health point of view. We are talking about minimum pricing. I appreciate that the decision of the Scottish Executive to introduce...

Other Questions: National Monuments (3 Oct 2012)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...'s predecessors in regard to the development of the Dublin city development plan? Moore Street is not the only area affected. The entire historical legacy of the northside of Dublin has been destroyed as a result of bad planning permissions granted by Dublin City Council over a number of years. We are currently in the middle of the decade of commemorations. What did the Minister's...