Results 1-20 of 38 for destroyed speaker:Tommy Broughan

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Armenian Genocide (12 Nov 2019)

Tommy Broughan: ...what happened to our people between 1845 and 1852, which was effectively a genocide as well? According to the 1948 UN genocide convention, the crime is defined as acts "committed with intent to destroy, in whole or part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group". Between 1915 and 1917, after Turkey entered the First World War on the side of the central powers, the Armenians, a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (17 Oct 2019)

Tommy Broughan: ...work. There are huge problems here, particularly with regard to the pupil-teacher ratio. I thank the Minister for visiting Scoil Chaitríona Cailíní yesterday, where a terrible fire has destroyed nine classrooms, the library and the hall. The Minister has already sent an architect. I know he will do his very best for all of the children. It is a fantastic school and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Illegal Dumping (11 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: ...of litter and illegal disposal of waste. The absence of such a regular waste collection service cannot be used as an excuse and should not be exploited by illegal businesses to wreak havoc on local residents, destroying their environment and endangering their health. The Minister recently told me that under section 60(3) of the Waste Management Act 1996, he was precluded from...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Illegal Dumping (11 Apr 2019)

Tommy Broughan: ...problem has been going on for too long. This type of activity is very disheartening for residents who have organised and submitted their streets to the tidy districts competition. It completely destroys their confidence. The Minister must direct Dublin City Council management to immediately remove all of the illegally dumped rubbish and the huge mounds of earth moving like a tsunami...

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Tommy Broughan: ...and the Minster for Finance are attempting to adopt the guise of fiscal prudence and responsibility in the run-in to budget 2019. Of course, they and their Fianna Fáil partners took the opposite road when they destroyed our national finances from September 2008 and decimated our key public services. The expenditure benchmark table, on page 18 of the report, shows net fiscal space of...

Markets in Financial Instruments Bill 2018: Second Stage (3 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: ...in the financial crash of 2008 where leadership of banks such as Lehman Brothers in the US, Royal Bank of Scotland in the UK, Anglo Irish Bank and the Irish Nationwide Building Society in Ireland destroyed the credit and pensions of whole nations and in the case of the UK and Ireland had to be propped up at terrible and enduring cost to ordinary citizens. As a country we have been plagued...

Other Questions: Greyhound Industry (26 Apr 2018)

Tommy Broughan: The Greyhound Rescue Association told us that, between 2010 and 2015, almost 3,000 of our greyhounds were surrendered to dog pounds, of which 2,500 were destroyed and 400 were, thankfully, homed or collected by welfare organisations. These are bad figures. In 2016, 284 greyhounds entered pounds, of which half were euthanised. The Government needs to address what is a major welfare issue. ...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Tommy Broughan: ...colleagues on the disgraceful homelessness figures from yesterday. I want to raise a matter which also affects homeless families. Last week, the upper floors of the 16-storey Metro Hotel were destroyed by fire. While residents were made homeless, thankfully there was no loss of life and no one suffered any injuries. As always, the Dublin Fire Brigade, the Garda and other first...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Digital Archiving (28 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 36. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the research being conducted to digitally restore the contents of the Irish Public Record Office which was destroyed at the outset of the Civil War; the extent to which such records can be gathered again and restored; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9847/18]

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Feb 2018)

Tommy Broughan: Reckless and criminal misbehaviour in the financial sector destroyed the Irish people's pension fund, exploded our national debt by a factor of eight and inflicted untold suffering on the most vulnerable of our fellow citizens. Like the Greeks and Portuguese, we have had a lost decade of cuts and suffering. It is particularly galling to citizens that only a tiny number of bankers have been...

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Tommy Broughan: ...employment, the majority of which is low paid, part-time and precarious employment, they also led to over 30% of recipients of the new payment losing over 10% of their weekly income. Losing 10% of one's weekly income when one is already in poverty is soul destroying and the previous Government should have done everything in its power to reverse changes that meant this cohort of families...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jul 2017)

Tommy Broughan: The Fine Gael Party voted to slash public services when a few of us stood alone. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil got us into this and destroyed our public services.

Welfare of Greyhounds (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (21 Mar 2017)

Tommy Broughan: ...were also returned to Ireland from the UK after being stopped en routeto China. There are reports that in the canidrome unless a greyhound finishes in the top three in five consecutive races it is destroyed. In response to the public outpouring of anger at the treatment of these greyhounds, Bord na gCon, the Irish Greyhound Board, issued a statement saying it had no control over events...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: What, however, if that monetary policy, which may suit the Benelux and Germany best, is destroying the industrial base of Italy, the second industrial power in Europe, as Italian politicians have been saying, or destroying large tranches of Greece's economy in the process? Are the alert mechanism reports picking this up? Will those reports include Brexit and its uncertainty? It will affect...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Tommy Broughan: ...They have not done this. They have gone, gently, quietly, into the good night of oblivion which will happen to them, sadly, in the coming general election, instead of condemning these measures, as they should have done, before the Rabbitte-Gilmore leadership eviscerated and destroyed the heart and mission of the Labour Party as those gentlemen and their colleagues tried so hard and so...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Tommy Broughan: ...as social housing in this city. The reason we have the crisis in this city in places like Parkgate Street is because the Progressive Democrats influenced, Thatcherite Governments led by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael destroyed our social housing programme. I know this Bill is intended to tinker with some minor aspects of the organisation of site levies and that Part 2 brings in the...

Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2014): Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2015)

Tommy Broughan: ...and we took a valuable step in establishing the Criminal Assets Bureau and giving it powers, which have been sustained by the Supreme Court, to ensure that the viciously ill-gotten gains that destroyed communities in this and other cities would be brought back to the community. From its establishment in late 1996 to the end of 2011, the Criminal Assets Bureau successfully froze some...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: We stood together and we defeated and destroyed Bertie Ahern's whole system of water charges in the mid-1990s. We stopped it. To be fair, Mr. Ahern later went to Europe and said "this is something the Irish do differently because we live in a rain-sodden country where water is freely available".

Topical Issues: Special Amenity Areas (17 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: ...surfaces on the East Mountain to be removed and the changes to the fauna and landscape to be addressed forthwith. Many thousands of my constituents are desperately upset at the illegal attempt to destroy the historic right of way at Heather Cottage. As I said, Fingal County Council has a new manager, Mr. Paul Reid, whom I understand has come from the Department of Public Expenditure and...

Topical Issues: Special Amenity Areas (17 Apr 2014)

Tommy Broughan: ...seeking further clarification of its decision, reference RL 3131, which clearly showed the erection of this large gate structure is not an exempted development. My constituents fear that this outrageous attempt to destroy an historic right of way in Howth may well be a prelude to landowners like Allenspark and Treasury Holdings alienating the amenity lands of Howth and turning the East...