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Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)

Mary Ann O'Brien: ..., is a toxic by-product of alumina production. It is strongly alkaline to the point of being caustic. In 2010, nine people died when a red mud waste pond at a plant in Hungary burst, and the resulting pollution destroyed the local river and killed all marine life. Since this picture was taken by the Limerick Leader, a second 195-acre pond has started to be filled at that plant. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Industry in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2015)

Mary Ann O'Brien: ...racehorses in the world. We are up there with the top showjumping countries. Bertram Allen is fifth in the world. We are brilliant at eventing. We have many horse fairs. We are at risk of destroying our reputation because, as far as I can see, we still have a major crisis. I would like to put to the witnesses a question we all have to ask ourselves. This House spent a great deal...

Seanad: Master Plan for the City of Dublin: Motion (24 Jun 2015)

Mary Ann O'Brien: They are things we have destroyed.

Seanad: Master Plan for the City of Dublin: Motion (24 Jun 2015)

Mary Ann O'Brien: ...with plastic signs and the great unwashed which are the betting shops.I travel a lot and every city and town in the developed world looks the same. Ever since the ESB, to our everlasting shame, destroyed the unique Fitzwilliam Street in the 1960s, the longest Georgian street in the world, followed quickly by the developers' rape of St. Stephen's Green, concerned citizens are on a...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2015)

Mary Ann O'Brien: ...incineration". He referred to the old Gortadroma landfill site to which tyres from all over the world will be imported which we will incinerate. Goodness knows, the environment will once again be destroyed. I welcome Nuala and Pat Geoghegan who are in the Visitors Gallery and who are from Askeaton, County Limerick. The Aughinish plant and Moneypoint are near their farm. If the EPA...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Services for People with Disabilities (25 Nov 2014)

Mary Ann O'Brien: It is not just the little girl but also the entire family. Her mother, father and four siblings are distraught; their lives have been destroyed.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Mary Ann O'Brien: .... Will the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government come to the House to talk about what is happening in Kilkenny city? I am loath to say it but the fact is that corruption and brown envelopes are destroying one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Apr 2014)

Mary Ann O'Brien: ...a sick child getting out at the Red Cow to get on the Luas to bring the child to hospital. On the heritage note, there is a very fine Victorian church on the grounds of St. James's that must be destroyed. It reeks of the Mater site scenario all over again. The press reports state that the children's hospital will still be ready in 2018, to which my response is "balderdash". We need to...