Results 1-15 of 15 for destroyed speaker:Imelda Munster

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Imelda Munster: ...bombing campaign in modern times. Not satisfied with bombing babies, women, children and other civilians in their beds, killing over 25,000 people in just over three months, Israel has destroyed the hospitals and the entire healthcare system in Gaza, ensuring there is no help coming for these people. It has also inflicted untold pain and suffering on the population through its various...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Imelda Munster: ...numbers on the ground of people homeless and the massive increase in the cost of housing tell the real story. In my town of Drogheda, I have constituents who have spent 12 years on a housing list. It is soul-destroying for those people who are locked out of housing, yet the State is spending obscene amounts on sticking plasters such as HAP rather than funding the building of social and...

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Imelda Munster: ...shame the most extravagant of Celtic tiger era excesses. These efforts alone, to conceal top-up payments of €345,000, with false invoicing, UK-based barter accounts and a mentality of asking no questions, have destroyed RTÉ's bond with its staff and the general public. Then we have the €1.25 million barter account, a slush fund that charges a 35% handling fee on...

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Imelda Munster: ...speak against this ridiculous proposal from Government, namely, the gifting of €450 million to developers. It is the most Celtic tiger, Fianna Fáil-type of insanity that I have seen since they destroyed the economy in 2007 and 2008. House prices are spiralling. They have increased by 15% in the past year. Rents have doubled in the past ten years. We have among the highest...

Garda Siochana (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

Imelda Munster: ...areas in recent years, particularly that the town was subjected to a vicious feud by drug gangs and with that came violence, intimidation and murder. People were living in fear as drug gangs destroyed communities and the lives of many young people and attacked and intimidated families. The Garda presence was increase and, following hard work on the part of gardaí and the community,...

Private Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2021)

Imelda Munster: ..., to introduce Sinn Fein’s plan for a refundable tax credit to put a month’s rent back in everybody’s pocket, we need to give young people a chance to have some security in their lives and to own their own homes and to stop destroying their futures just so the Government can line the pockets of foreign investment companies. For crying out loud, I call on the Minister...

Ceathrú Chultúir 1916 Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: .... We expect that a planning application for a shopping centre and office development will be submitted next month. It would be frankly obscene for us to hand over a national monument to private interests that will destroy our heritage and will not benefit the local community. If we develop a modern historical quarter we preserve our history, language and culture, and put those values...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: ...? The northern environs plan is for 7,000 houses to be built in an already traffic-congested town. While 2,000 of those houses have been built in recent years; there are a further 5,000 to go. Does the Minister want to destroy Drogheda with poor planning and lack of infrastructure? Is that what he is about? I appeal to the Minister again to overturn this decision because if he thinks...

Housing Shared Equity Loan Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (3 Mar 2021)

Imelda Munster: ...dysfunctional housing market. Lobbyists for developers wrote this policy and the Minister grabbed it and ran with it. Has Fianna Fáil learned nothing from its time in government, when it bankrupted this State, destroyed the economy and caused misery and financial ruin for thousands of Irish people? This scheme risks increasing house prices. That is the opposite of what we need and...

Scrambler Motorbikes and Quad Bikes: Motion [Private Members] (17 Nov 2020)

Imelda Munster: ...six people over the five years leading up to 2019 and one further death this year. So many other people have been seriously injured. We also know that local green spaces and recreational areas have been destroyed by these bikes. People in those communities and residential estates have been living in fear. We are coming up to Christmas, and we know the problem is set to get much worse...

EU-UK Negotiations on Brexit: Statements (24 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: ...there will be no hard border here. It will not happen. We fought hard for the Irish protocol to protect us from all this and to protect the Good Friday Agreement, and the British now want to destroy all that with their no-deal Brexit. The Government has to step up and fight for the rights of all Irish citizens on this island and to protect communities and businesses. We cannot expect...

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Oct 2019)

Imelda Munster: ...vital projects has been pulled. Housing and childcare are left to the market, despite the fact that we are in the midst of a housing emergency. The Government is making a spectacularly bad job of that, week in week out, and destroying lives in the process. We need to invest in infrastructure if we want businesses to thrive. I should not need to tell the Government that. This is basic...

No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jan 2019)

Imelda Munster: ...of residential property." Given all that is happening across the State, the Government still favours such a light touch to regulation despite the fact that these banks caused the economic crash, destroyed our economy and left the people to pick up the tab, a tab we will be paying for decades to come. The Minister knows that this code of practice on the transfer of mortgages meant nothing...

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to Disability Service in the South East and Related Matters): Motion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: ...We need to know who was responsible. We need to know who made the decisions at the top of HSE management. We need to know about the allegations of a cover-up. We need to know whether files were destroyed and, if so, who requested those files to be destroyed. The word is "accountability". We need to know why nobody was ever disciplined. Why was nobody ever sacked? There was a...

Leaders' Questions (2 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: ...the ordinary workers of Bus Éireann see right through it, as do the people living in rural Ireland. Bus Éireann workers will not allow the Government, the Minister, Deputy Ross, or company management to destroy their livelihoods, dismantle the services they worked so hard to provide and then blame them for the mess that the Government created. It is not an easy thing to vote...