Results 1-20 of 43 for destroyed speaker:Bríd Smith

Ban Private Jet Aircraft from Irish Airspace Bill 2023: First Stage (18 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...and signal that the rich do not care ande that climate change is for little people. The Bill is part of a global move to challenge that and to highlight that it is the rich and their economic system that is destroying our planet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sequestration and Land Management-Nature Restoration: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...% of our forest coverage is a monoculture of Sitka spruce. There are many problems with getting rid of it, because we would be releasing much carbon. Going round Ireland, one can see that we have destroyed mountainsides where the bog was pristine and beautiful by draining it and planting these forests. Everybody present will agree that we made a bags of our land use over the years. How...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...energy companies in the first quarter of this year are close to $100 billion. This grotesque greed of the fossil fuel industry and their financiers is punishing the poorest and most vulnerable people, while destroying our [planet]. The Minister of State should hold on to that thought because I want to come back to it when we drill down into what is happening in this country. It is...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...Its exploitation would swell the coffers and profits of the Providence shareholders. Across the globe, oil and gas companies and their backers make the same claims as they do here. In reality, they are destroying the planet and its future habitability. In April, we found that just 20 of the world's biggest oil and gas companies, including Shell, Exxon, Gazprom and others, are projected...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...and in some cities and regions temperatures will exceed the ability of human habitability. It is true that this year again will be among the warmest on record and floods, droughts and storms will destroy lives, crops and biodiversity. It is also true that any policy we take to deal with this can either address the systemic nature of the causes of climate change or not. It can hinder...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (20 Jan 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...in ensuring that a vital aspect of Dublin city's culture is preserved, restored and utilised for the benefit of the city and tourism in saving the Iveagh Market, Francis Street, from being totally destroyed due to neglect and legal interventions between Dublin City Council and persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2481/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...this and previous governments to the global corporations. At their behest the Government is willing to have heat cut off in homes this winter, to miss our climate emissions targets in 2030 and to destroy the reputation of this country in other ways in that it is not able to provide the energy needed to bring in other investment. Are we listening to Jeff Bezos and Zuckerberg or are we...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...across the planet, accumulating carbon dioxide in ever greater volumes. Trying to pander to the vested interests in agriculture or business here and globally is driving up those emissions and at the same time destroying the lives of small farmers. It is a betrayal of the climate movement. Hiding behind inventive accountancy or bogus trading schemes may fool some but it will not fool...

Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Apr 2021)

Bríd Smith: ..., however, it would not be necessary to go far from where I live into Dublin 8 and Dublin 12 to see how strategic development zones, SDZ, and strategic housing development, SHD, plans have utterly destroyed what should be considered proud heritage sites. I refer in particular to the Coombe and parts of Dublin 8, which are the oldest parts of the oldest city in the country. They have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...who have been pleading with all of us. I doubt there is a Deputy in the House or a Senator in the other House who has not received tons of emails asking us to do our best to ensure the allegedly destroyed files are not destroyed. It is not all about publicly telling one's story. It is also about having the historic record and having the story told correctly and accurately. People like...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...is to this effect - that if the commission closes down on 28 February, there will be no prospect that it will be able to go after the files containing the 550 oral testimonies that we are told have been destroyed. I note that since yesterday's challenge by Deputy Connolly, the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, says he will make further inquiries as to whether the files have been absolutely...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Architectural Heritage (28 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...it because it has an educational aspect. It also helps us to promote our city as somewhere interesting to visit. Enough vandalism has been done to Dublin. Its character has, in many ways, been destroyed by development over the years. Perhaps the ESB would use some of its newly found wealth to ensure the museum is preserved. There is a campaign by the Irish Georgian Society to save it....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Architectural Heritage (28 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...on the ESB, a semi-State company, to hold on to the museum and keep it open for the enjoyment and benefit of the people of this country and all who visit it. I ask that it not be allowed to destroy one of the remaining open public spaces that is part of the Georgian architecture of this city.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Peace Process (26 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: 39. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he plans to take on foot of the demolition of homes by the Israeli state in view of the recent illegal demolitions that have destroyed homes built by the EU and Irish Aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38337/20]

Rural and Community Development: Statements (18 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...were removed. The language of community development was still used but it now referred to what was primarily, and still is, a market-driven work activation and training programme that has, in effect, destroyed grassroots and local community development projects. The rhetoric of value for money and accountability are key narratives of the Government. The systemic destruction of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Nov 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...we need to offset our climate-damaging and unsustainable ways. The article states: Importing millions of tonnes of crops and meat each year undercuts farming standards in the European Union and destroys tropical forests. [...] the EU depends heavily on agricultural imports; only China imports more. Last year, the region bought in one-fifth of the crops and three-fifths of meat and...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: .... The argument is that the commission has created a database of every person to have passed through the mother and baby homes and the legislation needs to pass by 30 October or that database will be destroyed. The Minister needs to explain what is meant by "destroyed". I asked him to do so last night and even gave him options that might be envisaged, including shredding, burning and...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...I cannot understand about what is going on. My first point is that we keep hearing that if we do not pass this Bill tomorrow night when we vote, the archive assembled by the commission will be destroyed. This idea seems to have entered the Minister's head, and it is deeply embedded in the Taoiseach's head given what he said quite emphatically here yesterday. Is it the case that, as...

Climate Action: Statements (17 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...the reports of what is happening here in this country and globally, and many Deputies have spoken about it. The truth, however, is that the economic system of global capitalism we live under is destroying life on this planet as we know it before our very eyes and in this generation. I do not believe we are on the road, or have a plan to be on the road, to achieving the cuts in CO2...