Results 1-12 of 12 for destroyed speaker:Fiona O'Loughlin

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

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...it to be held the week after next. The recent flooding has been horrendous. The images on television screens and mobile phones and in newspapers of businesses, roads and family homes that have been destroyed are shocking. Many Ministers, cross-party, have been to the affected areas to show solidarity. There are several schemes available for businesses and homes. As the Senator noted,...

Seanad: Gambling (Prohibition of Advertising) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ..., as such, others become aware of the issue and can help, intervene, encourage and support. However, gambling is different and it is a silent addiction. It is a serious problem that can silently destroy lives. I mention Richie Power, the Kilkenny hurling wizard who had the game at his feet. Little did any spectator know the complete turmoil he was experiencing. He spoke about a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Feb 2022)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...an overdose every day this year". That just shows us the huge urgency regarding this matter, and that is without all of the other impacts on people's lives. We all know lives that are absolutely being destroyed by addiction and by drugs. We need to put a huge focus on this matter. I disagree that there is a lack of urgency because there is work happening behind the scenes and we need...

Seanad: Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel: Statements (17 May 2021)

Fiona O'Loughlin: .... In less than a week, 60 more fathers have lost their Smadars and Abirs, with that weight of grief and loss. Today, we heard about 50 airstrikes. We know four hospitals and 60 schools have been destroyed, aside from the press buildings and journalists who lost their lives. Many of us have heard the stories emerging over the past few weeks on social media. The most recent and notable...

Seanad: Future of Gambling Regulation: Statements (23 Apr 2021)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...and, as such, others become aware of the issue and can help, intervene, encourage and support. However, gambling is different. It is a silent addiction; a serious problem that can silently destroy lives. Sometimes loved ones do not know about the problem until the bank manager comes calling, a person loses his or her job or members of the Garda come to the door. Some of the statistics...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (8 Mar 2021)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...many people who are only a wage packet or two away from the risk of homelessness. Watching home ownership slipping away from an entire generation over the past number of years was absolutely soul destroying. That is why I am glad that Fianna Fáil, the party which has always put home ownership at the centre of government when in government, has the opportunity now to make that...

Seanad: Local Government (Use of CCTV in Prosecution of Offences) Bill 2021: Second Stage (5 Mar 2021)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...this important issue before the Oireachtas. Many of us have struggled with the issue of illegal dumping in our areas and the frustration of seeing repeat offenders not being prosecuted for destroying our lovely local environments. The Curragh plains is an area I have often spoken about in this House as the problem of illegal dumping there has been a major scourge for many years. I...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (16 Dec 2020)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...and difficult disease if it had not affected somebody that I know very well. Pat Tinsley is a well known and well loved member of the Newbridge community whose life has been absolutely destroyed by this degenerative disease. This debilitating and fatal illness attacks the heart and nervous system of patients.As it progresses, it causes loss of sensation, limb weakness and pain. The drug...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Oct 2020)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...what the Minister says and by his commitment to ensure that the records are to be preserved intact and will be available in the future in an appropriate way. We must preserve this information, not destroy it. The Bill provides for the transfer of the records, as opposed to their destruction. I have been contacted by numerous women who object to this legislation because they feel it...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...the eighth amendment can be hurtful and insulting to those who are faced with the horrors of losing a child before or after birth. I battle with what I feel is right and wrong. It is wrong to destroy a life, but it is also wrong to refuse a choice to a woman, who is in a crisis situation, about what is right for her. It cannot be right to insist that a woman must carry a child who will...

Calais Migrant Camp: Statements (2 Nov 2016)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...that enable us to live in freedom. We should give these 200 children the equality, freedom and dignity they deserve. They have fled from homelands rich in history and culture which have been destroyed in their wake. They have talents and dreams, and they now want to be part of a new society.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2016)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...the necessity for prenatal palliative care: incompatible with life but not with love. My honest opinion is that I battle with what I feel about what is right and what is wrong. It is wrong to destroy a life but it is wrong to refuse a choice to a woman who is in this situation about what is right for her. It cannot be right that a woman has to carry a child that will not survive if...