Results 1-5 of 5 for destroyed speaker:James Heffernan

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Oct 2015)

James Heffernan: People's livelihoods have been destroyed. I have seen evidence of questionable practice where people's health has been put severely at risk by that polluter in that area. The Environmental Protection Agency gave it a licence requiring a bond in case of a major catastrophe involving its waste ponds. That section of the licence agreement was subsequently deleted and a licence without any...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Sep 2015)

James Heffernan: ...is a conflict between the Departments of Environment, Community and Local Government and Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in respect of wind energy. The Government seems to want to destroy our country with wind farms and wind technology that is obsolete. The latter are a stain on our landscape, which is the only thing we have in rural Ireland. In the area of County Limerick...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motion (11 Jun 2015)

James Heffernan: ..., that one of the biggest criminal gangs operating in this country is the Provisional IRA. It is raising large sums of money through fuel laundering, protection rackets and so forth and has absolutely destroyed communities in the Border area. It rules those communities through fear and intimidation. One only needs to look at the case of young Paul Quinn to see the savagery these animals...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

James Heffernan: ...involved have no place in modern, civilised Ireland. They are animals. They are callous, murdering, sadistic animals who need to be put out of business. As Senator Mary Moran said, they are destroying people's lives. When I met the Donohoe family, it struck me that their lives had been destroyed, but it is not only their lives which have been destroyed. Adrian Donohoe was the coach of...

Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency: Motion (9 Jul 2014)

James Heffernan: ...the matter was the same inspector who recommended the known polluter for an IPPC licence ten years earlier, and the same person who supervised the premises for years as it continued to pollute and destroy the environment. This is not good enough. It is unacceptable. An outside investigator or independent ombudsman should be appointed to investigate possible breaches of the licence....