Results 1-20 of 41 for destroyed speaker:Richard Bruton

Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...individual incident. It was carefully planned and equipped to an extraordinary level, and its target was to see the hope of the emergence of the seeds of some sort of settlement in the Middle East destroyed. It is bent on the destruction of Israel and that is the sad reality we face. Equally, however, the actions of Israel to cut energy, water and humanitarian aid is designed in my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Apprenticeship Landscape in Ireland: Institute of Physics (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Bruton: Does Ms Longmuir want to comment on the curriculum and assessment? We put back classroom-based assessment again because of the potential influence of artificial intelligence. I am not sure that it destroys classroom-based assessments, but can we do more?

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Bruton: ..., we see too much of politics that is all about generating conflict. Twice in my lifetime I have seen the sort of situation where faith placed in the triumph of political hope over expectation has destroyed opportunity. It has been the weakest who have been damaged by this failure. Unfortunately, I see the seeds of this same approach being sown today and many days previously. We are...

Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...at the heart of this work. Unlike Deputy Danny Healy-Rae and others, I welcome the carbon pricing. Carbon dioxide is toxic. It may not emit fumes of smoke or have foul smells but it is destroying our climate. Farms, enterprises or homes that do not start and are not helped to make the changes now in order to be in a position to address the challenges of a zero-carbon world will be the...

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...Zappone is not a crony when it comes to defending LGBT rights and history will show that. These facts are not lost on Sinn Féin. That is why it has shifted its attack tonight. It seeks to destroy Simon Coveney's career to create a political platform to attack every party that is part of this Government. That is using the solemn process of removing someone from office in a way that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Examinership Arrangements (17 Dec 2020)

Richard Bruton: ...State consider changes that might be made on an administrative basis? He rightly said there are complex issues associated with creditors but the worst thing of all for creditors is to see a viable business destroyed and everyone left without any payment. Therefore, I stress the urgency of bringing forward proposals.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)

Richard Bruton: Deputy Smith's party made conscious decisions to destroy that possibility.

Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs 2014: Statements (3 Dec 2014)

Richard Bruton: ...finances. It left us unable to raise money to fund services. It had an impact on our banking system and filtered right through the economy. It has been a huge challenge to fix many elements destroyed by the crash. Central to this was employment. The idea behind the Action Plan for Jobs was that every Department and Government agency had a shared responsibility in addressing the...

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2014)

Richard Bruton: ...lines to the troika and would make the budgetary adjustments all in one year. Sinn Féin was going to lay aside a whole swathe of public services. It was going to push up taxes and would have destroyed the economy with such an approach.

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion [Private Members] (12 Mar 2013)

Richard Bruton: .... That is the ambition. Addressing this will require and has required considerable changes in the way we conduct our economy. It is a pity Deputy Jonathan O'Brien is not here now because he used a phrase to the effect that we are continuing with the failed policies of the previous Government, but nothing could be further from the truth. We have determined that we will not build over...

Microenterprise Loan Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Bruton: .... The aim of this Bill is to facilitate lending to microenterprises and thereby help sustainable small businesses to generate jobs and return the economy to the long term growth path which was destroyed by the poor economic policies of the recent past. Microfinance Ireland is being established to provide loans to sustainable microenterprises in these difficult times. It is targeted at...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: ...O'Dea is no longer in the Chamber. I need to take a deep intake of breath before responding to what he said, as he is living in a fantasy world. The policies his party pursued in government destroyed 350,000 jobs in the economy-----

Departmental Funding (5 May 2011)

Richard Bruton: ...spending review, including an examination of every programme, has not been created by this Government. With the greatest respect, I must tell the Deputy that the policies pursued in recent years destroyed competitiveness in the economy. The previous Government saw exporting market share fall consistently for six years in a row. It built up unsustainable spending programmes on the basis...

Economic Issues: Motion (6 Jul 2010)

Richard Bruton: ...finances. Employment was being created at a rate of 50,000 jobs per year and people rightly looked to Ireland's economy as a model for other countries to follow. The sad truth is the model was destroyed in a few short years after we joined the eurozone. It was destroyed by Governments that simply did not understand or take seriously their responsibility to protect that model when they...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Richard Bruton: ...is shot through because they went to the country on the pretence that they were competent in managing the economy. They were not competent in managing competitiveness or regulation, and this has destroyed so many jobs and the lives of so many families and people in debt. Failed regulation destroyed our country. Public finances were mismanaged and the Government ignored warnings. People...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Dec 2009)

Richard Bruton: ...many of the 250 additional quangos that were set up by the Government over the last decade have vague mandates and weak accountability. Parliamentary accountability has almost disappeared and been destroyed as a result of that trend. Similarly, we have had the establishment of the social partnership network with ever more elaborate procedures to deal with legislation that ought to be...

(15 Dec 2009)

Richard Bruton: ...without reform. This was done with decentralisation when for political reasons it was decided that people could be moved around, like pawns on a board, to satisfy short-term political needs. This destroyed some of the skills base of the public service which would now stand us in good stead as we try to reform delivery mechanisms. Those people were abandoned and let disappear into the...

(15 Dec 2009)

Richard Bruton: ...the core of this budgetary adjustment. The Minister should have said: "Yes, we have fiscal constraints, but we have a plan which is about creating a strong, export-driven economy." The Government destroyed that by allowing a property bubble to get pumped up. The core of his strategy should have been to examine how a strong, export-growth economy could be rebuilt. Within that, adjustment...

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Richard Bruton: ...the credit situation. The banks came in here last week and told us the transfer of money to NAMA would not make a cent of difference to availability of credit. That is a catastrophe that will destroy strong businesses, businesses that will be sucked down by the failure of credit. The Minister is ducking the challenges we face by offering an accountant's budget. This budget is a recipe...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)

Richard Bruton: Once one decides to pay hope value instead of market value, one destroys the concept of fairness. It implies that taxpayers are being forced to pay more for what they are getting than what they ought to pay. That approach destroys the concept of fairness. There is plenty of international evidence to show that the state is not good at running asset recovery. When political objectives are...