Results 1-20 of 25 for destroyed speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I do not want to speak too much about bullying, but there is an epidemic of it in the workplace and in many instances it is silently destroying people's lives. I am not certain what the answer to that is, beyond education systems and processes. It was not my intention to raise the issue of bullying in the workplace, but I will follow on from the points raised. There is a prevalence of...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: ...as we possibly can. I will say it again for the record. Nobody, neither me nor anyone else, is suggesting this is any way, shape or form the majority of employers. However, for the small few that do, they can destroy people's lives. Therefore, we believe there should be a sanction that those employers who have wilfully flouted the law of the State and who have treated their workers...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: ...all of his policy failings - sky-high rents, unaffordable homes, rampant vulture funds and 13,500 homeless people, 4,000 of whom are children - are real people. Families are having their lives destroyed. Sometimes I think that if the Minister knew how bad the situation was, he might actually change tack but maybe I am wrong. In his own constituency, which is also mine, I have two...

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: ...them out. That is how bad it is. It is nearly commonplace. This child is occupying a bed in an acute hospital. He does not need to be there. It is heightening his anxiety, making him upset and destroying his family. Please can we look at getting services into areas like mine? We have the youngest and fastest growing population, yet the CDNT service tells me there is a waiting list...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: ...incentivise, encourage and help people to do the right thing, which is what they want to do? We are in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis. They cannot afford these increases. The private market has destroyed waste management in this State. It is time for the councils to take back control, as do the unions and some of my constituents. What does the Tánaiste say to them?

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: ...offensive. If anyone in this House is contemplating using that term, I would tell him or her that it is offensive to the hard-working and decent people who are forced to put up with the scourge of organised crime gangs destroying their communities. These are ordinary people who want their children to grow up in a community without the fear that they will be groomed into organised...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: .... Those in government speaks about safety nets. They have not got a clue. To have that safety net taken away - a safe, secure stable place to live; a place your children can call home - is soul destroying. I say to people who will be evicted - and people will be evicted in the next month - that the shame is not theirs, it belongs to the Government. It is doing this. It has a choice....

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: ...Minister might tell me what I can tell Steph. His fine words on International Women's Day ring very hollow when we see the impact of the Government's policies on real women whose lives are being destroyed, effectively, by the housing crisis.

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: ...is chaotic for your children if you are not able to tell them where they will be living in a couple of months. It messes with your mental health in a way I do not think we will understand for many years. It destroys families. Government policy has brought us here. A change of Government policy is needed, but if the Government will not change policy, I suggest with respect it gets out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: On that, Mr. O'Connor says the skills and ingredients might not be available locally and that certain amounts of product are being destroyed because the capability does not exist. I want to understand that because it strikes me that, if it is true, it is a fairly reasonable explanation. If there is evidence to suggest that is not the full picture, we should hear it.

Broadcasting (Amendment) (Protection of Journalism) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ..., but it is saying it is not necessary now, although it might be necessary in a while. The Government is just waiting for the next billionaire to come along and put in place another ban and attempt to destroy the career of another group of journalists. They could work for another publication or any organisation. The Government is content to wait for that to happen and then perhaps to...

Pyrite and Mica Redress Issues: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ...is as if we have learned nothing. Across north County Dublin, particularly in Rush and Lusk, but also, as the Minister will be aware, elsewhere in the north of the county, houses have been literally destroyed by pyrite while apartments have been crippled by latent defects. There are those whose houses are undergoing remediation but there are others who cannot sell their houses because...

Prime Time Investigates Programme on Department of Health: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ...has said. She represents the voices of the families who have been devastated by this. I pay tribute to Shane Corr. I hope that the Government will stand by him and does not allow his life to be destroyed. That is what has happened to other whistleblowers. This man deserves protection. These are the words of one mother: My son is 8 now, was diagnosed just before his 3rd birthday and...

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ...wage supports and that the businesses are helped through grant aid or help with debt, or jobs will be lost and businesses will fold. We have seen in the north of England and Scotland how communities were destroyed through the Thatcher years because of the failure of the state to invest in communities, protect businesses and protect jobs. The failure has cost demonstrably more in the...

Employment Rights: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ...that. As I said, the Bill we brought forward was not opposed. We must resolve to make sure it passes all Stages in this Dáil as quickly as possible. I have said on the record of the Dáil that precarious employment destroys families and wrecks people's lives. People in precarious work never know from the end of one week to the start of the next whether they will be working,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Awareness (10 Dec 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: ...; the number in stock when it was withdrawn; if products left in stock have been returned to the company (details supplied) and credited as not fit-for-purpose products; and if they have been destroyed [51881/19]

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: ...it was unable to give an answer as to why this was the case. When he had attempted to investigate the contracts and the procurement process, documents and vital information were either missing, destroyed or could not be found. When one looks at the reduction in the weighting for quality and the increase in the weighting for fees, the reduction in the weighting for capacity and the...

Retention of Records Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: ...I wanted to put my own view on record. The Minister acknowledged that 75 years is a lengthy period of time. It is a long time. We have collectively acknowledged that those records should not be destroyed. There is agreement on that. I note the previous suggestion of colleagues that we should try to move towards some form of consensus because I think that might be possible. In the...

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

Louise O'Reilly: ...how much they will receive next year as they need to be able to put plans in place. If we do not do this, we will simply keep going back to the same place and see young people's lives ruined and communities destroyed.

Shared Maternity Leave and Benefit Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Nov 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: ...by joining trade unions to defend their interests. We have moved away from the Ireland of old that was forged by the conservative counter-revolution in the early years of the Free State and which destroyed ideals of equality and equal opportunities. What they gave us was a crushingly theological and conservative State, which told us a woman's place was in the home. We are due a...