Results 1-20 of 49 for destroyed speaker:Gerry Adams

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2019)

Gerry Adams: ...a massive spike in deforestation in the Amazonian rainforest. There was a year-on-year 88% increase in deforestation. What this means in practice is that 4,565 sq. km of rainforest were destroyed. That is an area five times the size of County Louth - gone in less than a year. Climate change is not the only threat from the deal. Farming organisations have already expressed their...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Organised Crime (27 Mar 2019)

Gerry Adams: ...family who extinguished the fire before anyone was hurt. They are working closely with An Garda Síochána and have praised gardaí highly. Other families have also been targeted and other homes attacked. Cars have been destroyed, while families have fled their homes. Last Friday I spoke to the chief superintendent of the Louth division. I commend An Garda...

Future of the Post Office Network: Motion (18 Sep 2018)

Gerry Adams: ...a vital social hub for local people, particularly older citizens. It is a vital public service and the Government has broken the social contract it made with these citizens. Local services should be enhanced not destroyed. Additional services could and should be delivered to all post offices as the 2016 Kerr report outlined, such as extended financial services, Government services and...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2017)

Gerry Adams: ...of Justice and other European Union institutions need to be a central part of any agreement? If so, this needs to be a central plank in his negotiations as otherwise the Good Friday Agreement will be destroyed. The Taoiseach must not let that happen on his watch.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)

Gerry Adams: ...the Taoiseach has just said the Government inherited problems created by Fianna Fáil and others but when Fine Gael took over from Fianna Fáil it followed its policies to the letter and managed collectively to destroy the largest Fine Gael mandate in the history of the State, as well as the Labour Party. That is because people elected Fine Gael to do something different from...

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)

Gerry Adams: ...farming organisations across this island have quite rightly opposed this move. Farming organisations agree that there must be a commitment to remove beef and poultry from the agreement or risk destroying one of our biggest and most internationally reputable industries. If the reports of the 70,000 tonne quota are true, then our beef sector and livelihoods of farmers are being sacrificed...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Gerry Adams: ...because the ruling elites in this State have no affinity with the egalitarian message of the 1916 Proclamation and its promise of, and commitment to, equality for all citizens. Moore Street was to be destroyed and replaced with a shopping mall but this was prevented by public outrage. Last year, during the centenary commemorations of the 1916 Rising - the Taoiseach should consider the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Gerry Adams: ...that, according to the Minister, the money that will be used to fund the appeal will more than likely come from the 1916 commemorations fund? Public money set aside to preserve our history will be used to destroy our history. As I do not have time to repeat my questions, I ask the Taoiseach to drop the case and confirm his support for the consultative report.

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to Disability Service in the South East and Related Matters) (Revised): Motion (9 Mar 2017)

Gerry Adams: ...; it has all the elements of a criminal conspiracy. There is an urgent need to know who is responsible and find out who knew what was happening. There is an urgent need to investigate allegations of a cover-up and claims that files were deliberately destroyed. The most glaring question is why no one was disciplined, sacked or charged with a criminal offence. Our main focus must be...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: ...a significant number of citizens, particularly in rural Ireland, rely on Bus Éireann services. People have the right to a public bus service. The Government's priority should be to create that service, not destroy it. I call on the Taoiseach to get off the chaos carousel, get on the right track - just for a minute - and ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy...

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: ...a new name, "new politics", in the centenary year of 1916. However, this new politics represents the type of politics that is prepared to accept an alleged criminal conspiracy by senior gardaí to destroy the character of a decent man doing his duty, and expects the Government that allowed this to happen to remain in office. In their world, political power is not a means to an end,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (15 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: ...in the Government's case is it has yet to ask for it. It is the only reasonable alternative to the British position. I warned the Taoiseach three weeks ago the British approach to Brexit will destroy the Good Friday Agreement. The British dismissed it, as did the Taoiseach, who quotes all the soft words he hears, but the fact is the British Government is intent on doing away with the...

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: ...and homelessness? Does Fianna Fáil think the Government is fit for the challenges presented by Brexit? Does it forget that at the heart of the current controversy is an alleged criminal conspiracy by senior gardaí to destroy the character of a decent man doing his duty? Yesterday, the Taoiseach told me it was irrelevant when he became aware of the false accusations against...

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: ...Fianna Fáil representatives about so-called fantasy money and Ireland acting as a tax collector for the world but arguments around selectivity and tech sovereignty were forensically dismissed and destroyed, point by point, by the Commissioner. She made it clear that the more than €13 billion back tax is due to the citizens of this State. It appears to me also that she...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (16 Nov 2016)

Gerry Adams: ...of this year, 252 Palestinian homes in the West Bank have been demolished by the Israeli authorities and 1,062 people, including 553 minors, have been made homeless. The Israeli authorities have destroyed approximately 150 internationally-funded development projects, which has cost the EU an estimated €58 million. There has also been an increase in the number of UN and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2016)

Gerry Adams: ...does not have defences in place. Teachta Quinlivan just reminded me that on the banks of the Shannon in Limerick city they got two rows of breeze blocks. Homes in Mount Hamilton in Dundalk were destroyed. I met representatives of the local authority this week and was advised that no defences will be put in place this year. The residents are living in dread, as are people living along...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2016)

Gerry Adams: ...frequent storms and flooding. That certainly has been the experience here. We are all very familiar with what happened particularly in the Shannon river catchment area, where homes were totally destroyed by floodwaters. The same thing happened in my constituency, in Louth, particularly in Dundalk. I have maintained contact with the families involved since, and they face a winter filled...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Oct 2016)

Gerry Adams: ...campaign within An Garda Síochána to discredit a whistleblower. We have a very senior former head of the Garda press office saying there was an organised campaign in senior Garda management to destroy the reputation of one of these whistleblowers. As I understand it, he is properly admitting his role in this and also implicating other senior managers, including, apparently, the...

European Council Meeting: Statements (5 Jul 2016)

Gerry Adams: ...with the EU institutions and for the Taoiseach and the Government to support that proposition. I request that the Commission be asked to establish a fund to assist small Irish export businesses that may be destroyed by the consequences of Brexit. Many of these businesses, as the Taoiseach is aware, are tied into contracts and may have to shut down if they do not receive assistance....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme (6 Apr 2016)

Gerry Adams: 425. To ask the Minister for Health to provide assurances that documentation associated with the symphysiotomy payment scheme will not be destroyed and will be returned by the Health Service Executive to its owners. [5415/16]