Results 1-20 of 45 for destroyed speaker:Martin Conway

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Rural Schemes (15 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: ...Clare, right along the Wild Atlantic Way and the N67 stretch, probably well over 100 roads service some 1,000 individuals, and certainly hundreds of homes. Those roads are in an appalling state and people's cars are being destroyed and damaged on a regular basis. In one scenario brought to my attention recently, a car was written off. People could potentially be hurt when they are out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Martin Conway: ...work they do with how bad and how difficult it is and how people in the mid-west feel they are completely isolated and completely left behind? I engaged a lot with various parents and it is soul destroying to see how long people are waiting for any kind of intervention in Clare. For these young people it is the formative years of their lives. We try to achieve something in politics and I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Martin Conway: ...sure everybody will join me in expressing solidarity and support to the unfortunate people in Midleton, Waterford and other parts of the country who found that their homes and businesses had been destroyed as a result of floodwater. I commend the Government on putting a substantial and comprehensive package in place. It does everything, including ensuring that people have enough...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Citizens' Assembly (29 Nov 2022)

Martin Conway: ...the lifetime of this Government. I struggle to understand why there were citizens' assemblies on biodiversity and having an elected mayor of Dublin ahead of a citizens' assembly on drugs.Drugs destroy lives; the Lord Mayor of Dublin does not. While biodiversity is an important issue, the more immediate issue is how to help save our communities from the ravages of drugs. When can we...

Seanad: Vaping: Motion (16 Nov 2022)

Martin Conway: ...vaping was like playing with Christmas lights. We do not yet have the figures or statistics in respect of vaping but my colleagues should be in no doubt that in 20 years' time, vaping will have destroyed people's health and resulted in fatalities. There is no doubt about it. The liquidised substance in these products cannot be healthy. What is proposed in this motion can be summed up...

Seanad: Vaping: Motion (16 Nov 2022)

Martin Conway: ...report published last year was very constructive and fair. It has to be acknowledged that the people who own these awful vaping shops have to make a living too but they cannot do so at the expense of destroying our streetscape up and down the country or selling this awful product to under 18-year-olds. They can make a living in a plainly designed shop, without packaging or advertising,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2022)

Martin Conway: .... The first is the women who took the drug and the guilt they felt and still feel as a result of what happened to their children. The second tragedy is the thousands of lives that have been destroyed throughout the world and the people left with no compensation, apology or recognition. I call on the Acting Leader to organise a debate in the House with the Minister for Health, Deputy...

Seanad: Report of Joint Committee on Agriculture and the Marine: Motion (16 Feb 2022)

Martin Conway: ...situation in my county, Clare, in which it has engaged in significant felling. It gets permission to do this. The lorries are overloaded with timber and the roads, which are mainly built on bog, are destroyed. Coillte makes its money, moves out and then the people living in the area have to navigate roads that destroy their cars and are, frankly, dangerous. I believe the licensing...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Forestry Sector (2 Feb 2022)

Martin Conway: ...in Clare County Council. It would solve a lot of problems and would ensure that the local authority funding provided for roads is used for the roads for which it is needed, not roads that are destroyed as a result of tree felling.

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (15 Jul 2021)

Martin Conway: ...at which they require residential nursing home support. It is incumbent on us to streamline the system, to make it easy to understand and to give older people reassurance that the scheme will not destroy an asset that has been built up over a lifetime. This legislation goes a long way towards addressing that. As time goes on, as the Minister of State evolves into her brief, as the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Nursing Homes and Development of a New Model of Care for Older People: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Martin Conway: ...of cases of people whose absolute desire is not to be in nursing homes. I agree with them that it is not appropriate they should be there. It is going on for years and is totally wrong. It is destroying them mentally. They feel hopeless, that they do not have any future and that nobody really cares. It needs to be a top priority to take people out of those wrong settings and give...

Seanad: Crime: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Martin Conway: ...since it came into existence. That is because we changed the legislation. Small-time drug dealers are causing raic just as big-time drug dealers are, and are feeding into big-time drug dealers and are destroying the lives of so many decent, honest, hard-working, genuine families. A young person just gets caught up in recreational drugs and some, unfortunately, end up taking heroin and...

Seanad: Illegal Drugs: Motion (13 Nov 2019)

Martin Conway: .... It should, instead, be a health-led approach and we are moving in that direction. Another approach has to involve educating middle Ireland. We should let the people going out on Saturday night, who are snorting cocaine and taking other drugs, know that they are, ultimately, destroying their own health.I am convinced that in 20 or 30 years, there will be medical conditions as a...

Seanad: Crime Policy: Motion (2 Oct 2019)

Martin Conway: ...assumptions when one reads something in the newspaper about people who are caught with class A drugs and sentenced. They are the victims, to a large extent. The dangerous people, who prey on and destroy the lives of vulnerable people, are further up the food chain. The kingpins and bosses live on yachts, often out of the country, totally removing themselves from any responsibility. I...

Seanad: Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018: Second Stage (24 Oct 2018)

Martin Conway: ...I believe to be an important Bill. One learns a good deal with these types of Bill. I had thought there was significant sanction in the case of perjury being committed. People committing perjury have destroyed other people's lives. Certainly, it calls into question the integrity of the justice system having listened to Senator McDowell and his reflections on the last analysis. The...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Foreshore Licence Applications (10 Oct 2018)

Martin Conway: ...matter. As we all know, applying for a foreshore licence is a long, difficult, slow and tedious process. At 6 a.m. on 4 January 2014 the shoreline in the village of Lahinch, County Clare was destroyed. Millions of euro worth of damage was caused and the incident had a significant impact both on the lives of the community and businesses in the village. To be fair, everyone rallied...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009 and Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motions (14 Jun 2018)

Martin Conway: ...to the State and our citizens is as prevalent today as it was then. It has probably become even more prevalent in recent times. We have seen the situation with dissident republicans trying to destroy what has been achieved through the Good Friday Agreement and the work of many people. We see what is going on on the streets of Dublin, where people are being gunned down week after week....

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Funding (1 Feb 2018)

Martin Conway: ...of euro worth of damage was caused at the time and Ministers and others visited, including the then Minister of State with responsibility for the OPW, Mr. Brian Hayes. Homes and businesses were destroyed and serious damage was done to the streetscape in towns along the coast, particularly Lahinch. Subsequently, the Government committed €17 million to deal with the issues in...

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Martin Conway: ...advertisement. They have three or four years to pay people to come up with another creative advertisement to capture the imagination of the public.I would go so far as to say that Guinness has destroyed the lives of thousands of people at Christmas time and it has some nerve to try to use that advertisement to try to block the Minister from curtailing advertising. When I saw the proposed...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Martin Conway: In many ways it was pounds, shillings and pence that destroyed this country in the early noughties.