Results 1-16 of 16 for destroyed speaker:Gino Kenny

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: .... This is ongoing. However, there must be accountability. One of the schools mentioned by the Tánaiste, in a village called Khirbet Zanuta, was funded by Irish Aid and was completely destroyed. There must be accountability not only for settler violence but also for violence by the Israeli state. There must be sanctions. I ask the Tánaiste to consider the Control of Economic...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Welfare (26 Apr 2022)

Gino Kenny: ...in the Clondalkin area. Horse owners got together more than ten years ago to appeal to the council and the authorities to prevent a type of revolving door system whereby horses were impounded and destroyed, which resulted in animosity. The club has brought all the educational and safety guidelines to bear on the project. The money we are talking about is a pittance relative to what...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: ...of the poorest countries in the world, and that juxtaposition of having one of the wealthiest countries in the world bomb Yemen into the Stone Age. The world looks on because the bombs that are destroying Yemen are American made and American funded. There has to be sanctions. There has to be justice and some sort of accountability regarding Saudi Arabia.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 May 2021)

Gino Kenny: Today, thousands of taxi drivers are assembling in Dublin city. Over the past 15 months, their industry and livelihoods have essentially been destroyed. This industry has suffered hugely in that period. Taxi drivers are calling on the Government for extra supports for their industry and their livelihoods, and also for a moratorium on new leases in respect of taxi plates. They met the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Middle East (11 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: .... If one looks at this picture very carefully, it says, "Humanitarian Support to Palestinians at risk of forcible transfer in the West Bank." It can be seen that the structure is completely destroyed. If one looks very carefully, one will see the logos of agencies of a number of countries that have donated these materials to the most vulnerable people in Palestine. One of the countries...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Refugee Resettlement Programme (23 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: ...thank the Minister of State for taking this important issue. I raise the issue of the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos in Greece. As the Minister of State is aware, a fire two weeks ago destroyed the camp and people were left destitute. All their belongings were destroyed and thousands of people are now without any kind of shelter on the island. This is a humanitarian crisis...

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2019)

Gino Kenny: ...area and then there is middle management and a floor of factory workers and people beneath them who do all the work and must take all the slack. The collateral damage of that is communities being destroyed by drugs. There is no way of getting around it. There is no glamour involved in drugs yet people still take them. As Deputy Curran said, the demand for drugs has never been so...

Illegal Drugs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2019)

Gino Kenny: ...Ireland has matured and is more liberal in its outlook, particularly with regard to the use of drugs. I am not trying to glamorise this in any way because I have seen from my own family how drugs can destroy lives but we need a completely different approach. It is not necessarily going to be nice because there is a dark side to all of this but we need to do something different....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)

Gino Kenny: ...has a smartphone. In some ways, we love them because they are so useful and permit human beings across the world to communicate. However, they have also become dangerous weapons that can destroy someone in the blink of an eye. There have been other incidents in which people have shared images, videos and all sorts of material which were deeply personal and have wronged not only the...

Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2019)

Gino Kenny: ..., I have seen what drugs can do and the devastation they can cause to individuals, families and communities. We will have to have a grown up argument about why prohibition has failed. Drugs are destroying communities, but the market for drugs has been surrendered to individuals who only care about profits and making as much money possible. This raises the question of whether we should...

Implementing the National Drugs Strategy: Statements (28 Jun 2018)

Gino Kenny: ...not go through the criminal justice system because it has failed. In my community, I have seen the abuse of drugs ravage not only friends of mine but family members. I have seen whole communities destroyed. What it does to people’s mindsets acts like a cancer in communities. Words cannot articulate what drugs do and what they leave behind. Nobody is born a heroin addict but,...

Pre-European Council: Statements (27 Jun 2018)

Gino Kenny: ...€250,000. That brings our contribution up to €6 million to the fund. However, the crisis will continue. We have run out of adjectives to describe what Donald Trump is about. He is a maniac who will destroy many of the people who he believes are against his policy. Our solidarity is always with the Palestinian people. I welcome the new funding. I call on the Minister of...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Equipment (10 May 2018)

Gino Kenny: ...the Minister of State. He is complicit with the Israeli Government when buying any sort of military equipment. The vehicles are not benign; rather, they are meant to carry out surveillance and to destroy.

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Feb 2018)

Gino Kenny: ...has had and is having a detrimental effect on people, the climate and wildlife. We talk about the environment but, in the same vein, we have to talk about why the environment is being slowly destroyed. The elephant in the room starts with a C - it is capitalism. Capitalism destroys the planet constantly. Those who do not believe in climate change are in denial. What capitalism is...

Animal Welfare: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2017)

Gino Kenny: ...welfare, particularly in an urban environment. When I was a councillor on South Dublin County Council, I was shocked, to understate it, by the number of horses which were impounded, neglected and destroyed. Over the past ten years, tens of thousands of horses have been destroyed in this country. Over a period of four years South Dublin County Council saw up to 1,000 horses destroyed at...

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: ...sales are exports of ammunition, drones and other upgrades to existing aircraft. Even though Israel killed 2,000 civilians, including 560 children, in the Gaza Strip in 2014, the EU continues to sell arms that destroy lives, rather than saving them, to that country in large numbers. The European Union has for long periods been portrayed as a benign force in Irish society. Many people...