Results 1-13 of 13 for destroyed speaker:Paul Gavan

Seanad: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: ...,000 villages and towns across the country without electricity or water. The economic impact on Ukraine will have long-lasting consequences. Huge parts of the country’s infrastructure have been destroyed. Public debt has soared and the fiscal deficit has spiralled. The total amount of direct damage to the country’s infrastructure exceeded €143 billion last year....

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Gavan: ...devastation caused to that sector by Government cutbacks, particularly the first Fine Gael-Labour Government. Those cutbacks have never really been restored. We saw vital community programmes completely destroyed, we saw some of the best people in those communities lose their jobs and the level of community intervention has never recovered from those cutbacks of over ten years ago. I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...were intensive. The impact of those attacks has now been documented. There were 11 power stations hit affecting more than 2 million people; 18 water stations are out of service; two hospitals destroyed; 48 educational sites hit; three industrial facilities out of service and 44 people killed. I am not referring to the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people which I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...them children, have been killed. Israel's new Government, which contains representatives from extremist and racist parties, has given violent settler groups licence to attack Palestinian villages, destroy homes and property, blockade roads and assault farmers and deny them access to their land. This violence is carried out with impunity. The Israeli occupation forces passively watch on...

Seanad: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Paul Gavan: ...time to review the bill, no time to debate the bill, no time to even communicate and discuss the consequences of the long-term aspects of the bill to the thousands of homeowners whose lives will be destroyed by not only defective blocks, but your failure to provide true redress for the problem. The statement concludes: Minister let us be [very] clear, so our words are not...

Seanad: Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 May 2022)

Paul Gavan: ..., we have heard all too often of the horror stories and treatment of whistleblowers when they came forward and spoke out. Attempts by authorities to protect their reputations have often resulted in destroying the whistleblowers' reputations. There is usually a circling of the wagons and a casting of aspersions on the characters or motivations of the whistleblowers. However,...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2021)

Paul Gavan: ...are not charged local property tax. I urge the Minister to accept these amendments in the interests of these homeowners. Amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, will allow homeowners whose houses have been damaged or destroyed by mica or pyrite to apply for an exemption from local property tax on a self-assessed basis, with Revenue able to take a look-back exercise to assess eligibility for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Gavan: -----reject Thatcherism, and reject the right-wing economics that have destroyed society over there.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Catalan Referendum (15 Oct 2019)

Paul Gavan: ...has happened over the past couple of years and how the Catalan people voted in their millions for independence on 1 October 2017. We were all shocked at the scenes of Spanish state police brutally destroying polling booths and hitting elderly frail people. My party had four witnesses who saw that first hand. After that shocking display of state violence and repression, a number of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Palestinian Refugees in the Near East and Demolition of Khan al-Ahmar: Discussion (20 Sep 2018)

Paul Gavan: ...EU-Israel association agreement. Would the EAPPI agree with that? According to the EU's recently issued six-month report on Israeli demolitions, 26 EU-funded structures worth €60,900 have been destroyed or confiscated by Israel. To echo Senator Bacik's question, would the EAPPI support a demand for compensation? Such a demand should be forthcoming from the EU. I have a...

Seanad: National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (29 May 2018)

Paul Gavan: ...Civil War and the immense damage it caused to our national memory. When certain historical records are lost, they leave a missing jigsaw piece in the picture of our heritage. Some of the most vital records destroyed were the census records of the 1800s. If they had been retained, we would have insight into pre-Famine Ireland and would gain far more insight from what is now lost. I am...

Seanad: Protection of Employment (Measures to Counter False Self-Employment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Feb 2018)

Paul Gavan: ...workers are specialist entrepreneurial bricklayers? This nonsense is being spread while unions such as OPATSI, BATU and SIPTU, who represent these workers, are telling us that bogus self-employment destroys people's lives. A report by the CIF highlighted that between 2008 and 2014, more than 1,000 builders committed suicide. We can imagine being a builder when the crash in 2008...

Seanad: Waste Management: Motion (22 Jun 2016)

Paul Gavan: ...of support for a joint labour committee. All Members would welcome it, but somehow I think that is unlikely. It is a scandalous industry, an industry with terms and conditions that have been destroyed. There is no permanency of tenure, appalling rates of pay and poverty wages. I will return to the key point. We had an opportunity to actually make a difference. Let us consider the...