Results 1-20 of 40 for destroyed speaker:Peadar Tóibín

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...are centres of antisocial behaviour, drug-taking and potentially fires as well. There are also cases where businesses are significantly devalued as a result of being next to vacant buildings destroying their towns.

Gender Recognition (Amendment) (Prisons) Bill 2023: First Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...their gender. Gender affirmation can put young people on the pathway to chemicals, puberty-blockers and irreversible surgery. Those co-morbidities that are causing the problems never get treated at all. They can destroy a person's fertility, cause serious health damage and in many cases lead to people to de-transition after that damage has been done. Ireland remains wedded to the...

Protection of Children (Online Pornographic Material) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...;That the Bill be now read a Second Time.” As the Minister will be aware, Ireland has become a very violent place in recent times. Sexual violence is increasing at a shocking rate and lives are being destroyed day in, day out, in Irish society. In 2011, 1,958 sexual offences were recorded whereas that figure had increased by 75% to 3,433 in 2021. In 2011, 447 rapes were recorded...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Today, thousands of early years education and childcare workers went on strike and protested outside the Dáil. They did this because their sector is being destroyed by the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman. He is literally closing down childcare services in this State. He actually said the strike was unwarranted. Is it not a bit rich for a Minister on a salary of €183,000 per year to...

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...asylum. If we extrapolate this to the 5,000 people who are without documentation or have false documents, it adds up to €141 million a year. At present, 14,000 people have applications for processing pending. Those who destroy travel documents to confuse the system or slow it down should be sent home. It should not be controversial to state that a person who breaks the law...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Jan 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...real investment into these issues. The asylum application process also needs to be speeded up. It should not take more than six months. Those who are not genuine asylum applicants or who have destroyed their travel documents to confuse the process must be sent home. Services that are designed to help asylum seekers, such as housing services, must also be available to Irish people in...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...version of the quote is: "I may not agree with what you have to say, and I may put you in jail for actually saying that." That is the opposite of what pluralism means. Words can defame, inflame, divide and destroy, they can rob a person or an organisation of a good name, and words can and do lead to violence and death. In our modern society with its social media, those words can be...

An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...locations where the founders of the State were. Another issue relates to a site not too far from here, namely, the Moore Street battlefield site. I refer to the Hammerson planning application which seeks to destroy not in its totality but elements of the Moore Street battlefield site. It would radically change the nature of that location. This is the birthplace of the Republic. It is a...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...understand, of embryos of children with disabilities. As we know from science, an embryo is a living individual human being and this Bill will allow for the regulation of those embryos being discarded and destroyed. For many people living with the complexities involved in assisted human reproduction it is important we have an honest, frank and open debate here. We must ensure that at...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...may not be too far away from the event and I would ask him, if he can, to go along to that event, listen to the needs of fishing families in this country and guarantee that their livelihoods will not be destroyed.

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

Peadar Tóibín: ...the Police Ombudsman report identified eight British informants linked to the murders and attempted murders of 27 people. A police gun was used in the hands of loyalists. The RUC deliberately destroyed files. It failed to investigate CCTV footage. It failed to search houses of suspects. The RUC failed to conduct a full forensic test on blood. It failed to test a getaway car for...

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

Peadar Tóibín: .... A police gun was in the hands of loyalists who were involved in these murders. The ombudsman identified eight British informants linked to the murder or attempted murder of 27 people. The RUC destroyed files. It failed to investigate CCTV footage. It failed to search the houses of suspects. It failed to carry out forensics on blood. It failed to test a getaway car for gunshot...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and New Decade, New Approach: Statements (1 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...the actual effect the British are trying to achieve here. The murders of Irish people in Ireland by British soldiers were the actions of a rogue state. There were no proper investigations, evidence was destroyed, there were few or no convictions and there was no accountability. These were the actions of a rogue state. In many cases, the people who carried out these murders got...

Pyrite and Mica Redress Issues: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...work to make sure today has happened and I pay respect to it. I understand why the frustration is there because people have been battling for years for justice with regard to their homes. Families' lives have been absolutely destroyed in Donegal. It is incredible. When you speak to the families, as I have done, the level of damage done to their lives is enormous. Their life savings and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Strategic lawsuits against public participation, or slap lawsuits, are used against citizens who are trying to ensure that companies do not destroy the environment or break environmental laws. They tie up citizens in terms of money, time and energy. They may not be successful but their job is to silence or chill efforts by citizens to protect their environment. The Aarhus convention states...

Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...xe1;il just before that, the Taoiseach responded by saying, "Given the significance of The O’Rahilly in terms of the war for independence and his historic significance, to go in yesterday at dawn to destroy the building is absolutely shocking and unacceptable." Those are the Taoiseach's words. I also thought the Minister would have investigated it because I raised the issue...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Collection (21 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 1529. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek to destroy the files amassed on children with autism by his Department. [18150/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Collection (21 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...families upon whom dossiers have been compiled by his Department will be able to request that the files amassed by his Department on children with autism involved in legal proceedings be deleted or destroyed. [18151/21]

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...for one minute what student nurses are enduring mentally, physically and psychologically on a daily basis, he would not be putting forward the amendment he is bringing before this House today. That amendment has the objective of destroying the opportunity of paying student nurses and student midwives a proper wage. I ask the Minister, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party to...

Environmental Policy: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: ...the planet and the environment like never before. For all the greenwashing, the photo opportunities and the hollow language about sustainability, we are unsurpassed as a generation in actively destroying the environment. The numbers of insects, reptiles, amphibians and mammals are all in retreat. We are also poisoning our own citizens. This has been discussed here in the context of the...