Results 1-14 of 14 for destroyed speaker:Grace O'Sullivan

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: .... He makes six policy recommendations, of which I would like the Leader to make the Minister, Deputy Richard Bruton, aware. If we do not do something about biodiversity loss, everything will be destroyed because that is the base of the food chain and of all parts of the ecosystem, not just that relating to humans. Our ecosystem is essential to all life on the planet. We have major...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Exploration Licences (24 Jan 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: ...damaging industry on the planet. Whole mountains have been stripped for gold in Romania. In 2000, the multinational company Aurul leaked cyanide into the Some River in Romania, leaving rivers destroyed across the country. Thousands of people had to leave their homes and many others developed cancer from breathing the toxic dust that resulted from the mining processes, which released...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Commissioner Phil Hogan (26 Apr 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: ...and bee populations. Beekeeping is a way to earn money through small business, for example, the sale of honey and other products related to bees. As such, it would be a shame to see pollinators destroyed by the policy of using pesticides that are killing off various species.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2017)

Grace O'Sullivan: ...people and communities in these rural areas. We need to look at how we can do this sustainably, because we can do that. However, the way the Government is going about it at the moment is wrong and is destroying vast tracts or areas of seaweed. We have an opportunity now. I am asking the Leader to get the Minister of State before the House as soon as possible in the new year to debate...

Seanad: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (18 Jul 2017)

Grace O'Sullivan: ...we all depend. International financial institutions have frequently been the plunderers of fossil fuel investments, mega-dams and other projects that have dispossessed local indigenous populations, destroyed local environments, reduced biodiversity and increased greenhouse gas emissions. As an example, the International Finance Corporation, IFC, the World Bank’s private sector arm,...

Seanad: National Housing Co-operative Bill 2017: Second Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Grace O'Sullivan: ...Bill. This is a housing issue. Everyone present probably has experience of family members being harassed by the banks in the past few years; therefore, they know how people's confidence can be destroyed. People have received telephone calls from banks on a daily basis. Pressure has been put on individuals, families and their children. The distress caused has been shocking, atrocious...

Seanad: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Second Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Grace O'Sullivan: ...the industry are trying to diversify, others to rent-seek through expensive government lobbying and engineering campaigns that create doubt around climate change. Others are trying to waste our time and destroy our environment by pushing new wasteful and expensive technologies to access fuel we cannot even burn. I seek assurances from the Minister of State, Deputy Kyne, regarding the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Seaweed Harvesting Licences (23 May 2017)

Grace O'Sullivan: ...people of Bantry Bay are asking for and that is why they are so outraged at the moment; they feel that their voices are not being heard. Enabling the company to go ahead as is would potentially destroy the resource. We are pushing very strongly for sustainable harvesting of seaweed rather than the annihilation of the kelp seabed in Bantry Bay.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Grace O'Sullivan: ...my own county of Waterford. Millions of euro in damage has been done by the 5 km wide fire in the Cloosh Valley in Galway in one of the worst fires this year. A total of 1,500 hectares has been destroyed and the fire continues. Firefighters are battling to bring that and fires in other areas under control, endangering their own safety and putting themselves in harm's way. The Cloosh...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Apr 2017)

Grace O'Sullivan: I acknowledge and support what Senator Alice-Mary Higgins said. We have made huge progress in getting rid of terms such as "grubbing" and "destroying" hedgerows. I never saw a heritage Bill as being conducive to the use of such terms. We have come a long way which I welcome and it would be most unfortunate if we were to row back at a later stage and unpick all of the work we have done in...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Grace O'Sullivan: ...then gladly come back here and the Minister could prove me wrong, but what she is proposing at this stage is absolutely the wrong way for the country to go. This is not about greening Ireland but destroying it. It is an attempt to damage our natural environment. It will damage the rural way of life and is potentially damaging to the farming community which, as Senator Kevin Humphreys...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Grace O'Sullivan: ...in March. I received a letter from a full-time bee farmer in County Louth. His income is from the production of honey and he said if the upland areas are burnt, if that uncultivated land is destroyed, it will affect the foraging capacity of his bees, which will impact on the production of the honey. That will impact on the income he, as a full-time bee farmer in this country, will have...

Seanad: Communications, Climate Action and the Environment: Statements (6 Jul 2016)

Grace O'Sullivan: .... With poverty, both at home and abroad, social exclusion and disadvantage, we can rank the climate change catastrophe as representing an enormous threat to humanity. It has the potential to destroy countless lives. It was proposed that "climate action" be included in the title of the Minister's Department and ministerial responsibilities. If I had to pick two words to sum up what we...

Seanad: Ibrahim Halawa Case: Statements (30 Jun 2016)

Grace O'Sullivan: ...Affairs, Mr. Peter Barry, who immediately engaged in intensive dialogue with his French counterparts. I was released and deported back to Ireland seven days later without a passport that had been destroyed. In Ibrahim's case, the approach of the Department has been one of caution and temperance. I understand the wisdom of adopting the approach deemed most successful but it has to be...