Results 1-5 of 5 for destroyed speaker:Susan O'Keeffe

Seanad: Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Statements (2 Feb 2016)

Susan O'Keeffe: ..., I believe this banking inquiry is part of the growing up of this nation. We are so used to deference, patronage and secrecy, which I believe is a very damaging cocktail whose legacy is ours to destroy. For me, the inquiry is another piece of that work.We were not experts but we were there on behalf of the people. That is the important part and that is what parliamentary accountability...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Dec 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: Mr. Wright talks a lot about the importance of written documentation and so on. Was he made aware at any point by anybody that relevant documents might have been deleted or destroyed or removed from the Department?

Seanad: Establishment of Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Motion (14 May 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: ...more questions and more confusion while, rapidly, we saw the country appear to go down the proverbial. It was a difficult time and it has been followed by people's lives being, in some cases, destroyed permanently and, in many cases, scarred completely. My colleague, Senator Cummins, referred to people leaving the country, losing their jobs, losing their houses and losing their lives....

Seanad: Death of Nelson Mandela: Statements (10 Dec 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: .... It seems difficult to understand in a modern Ireland, in a modern world, that a whole country ran its system deliberately to exclude one group with a particular skin colour, to patronise, bully, destroy, ignore, neglect – and kill if necessary – those who were black or coloured and to allow white people to have the best of everything. South Africa ran its apartheid system...

Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: ...the newly bearded Senator Norris that this is a PR exercise, but I must do so. It is easy to say that it is part of a PR exercise, but the Government has a responsibility to try to restore the destroyed political fabric and trust in political life. If the Government did absolutely nothing at all, then certainly nothing would change and the attitude and public respect would not alter....