Results 1-4 of 4 for destroyed speaker:Catherine Noone

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2016)

Catherine Noone: ...the House did a lot of work on this area. Everyone knows that online gambling is a big problem. Gambling is hard to detect and online gambling is even harder to detect. As we all know, gambling destroys families. Experts say that gambling is the worst addiction due to it being undetectable. A debate on the matter is welcome. I note with interest and welcome the fact that the Central...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2016)

Catherine Noone: ...to replicate this around the State. Unfortunately, since I raised this matter initially - and I had done quite a bit of work on the proposal at the time - many of the telephone boxes have been destroyed. Local authorities do not always know what to do with unused telephone boxes and this would be a really good use. They could be constructed at a relatively cheap cost. I am sure they...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2013)

Catherine Noone: ...working with Eircom, perhaps under the guidance of the Minister for Health, to retrofit existing telephone boxes with defibrillator machines in towns and villages around the country instead of simply destroying the boxes. This would be a sensible move in two ways. It would allow us to find a useful purpose for the existing boxes and the location of those boxes, which would otherwise...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2013)

Catherine Noone: ...of a broader debate on prison sentencing? This is a country in which people are being sent to prison for not paying their television licence fee, while, on the other hand, bankers and the like who destroyed the economy and the country are walking the streets without any obvious sign of a change in their lifestyle. I read recently about an interesting initiative in France, whereby a tax...