Results 1-11 of 11 for destroyed speaker:Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

Adoption (Information) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...records for those affected by an illegal birth registration and offer a way to find clarity on identity, which matters. It provides for the safeguarding of relevant records and will create offences of destroying, falsifying or mutilating those records. Importantly, it will also provide for unfettered access. Adopted people have been fighting for too long. Since the 1990s, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...I wonder if that aspect could be worked on. I also want to inquire about the collection of DNA samples. Do we have the potential to undertake a process of collecting DNA first? Is the idea of destroying DNA after a short time connected with not having the FSI lab available yet? Regarding collecting DNA, I am concerned that many of the relatives involved in this situation are getting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Engagement with the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Youth (16 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...we had a major vote on the mother and baby homes to protect files. We were there to protect them, yet today we are being told that in the report from the commission information and recordings were destroyed. Can the Minister explain what exactly we voted for in October when we voted to protect information on the mother and baby homes? There has been confusion about this. These...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...of that Bill caused hurt. Official rulings criticised the Bill and amends had to be made. New legislation is vital. People need to be assured their files are not sealed and information is not destroyed. The Taoiseach needs to assure the people of Ireland that they can access their information.

Level 5 Response to Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (23 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...it. That is not what I voted for. I voted to ensure the information will be there and will eventually be accessible to people for tracing. I voted to make sure people can access records that could have been destroyed. I read today in the Irish Examinerthat the Data Protection Commissioner believes there are problems with the Bill. Another reason we voted for the Bill was to protect...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna (Atógáil) - Commencement Matters (Resumed): Insurance Costs (18 Jun 2019)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...so well. It is one thing for parents to feel frustrated that they cannot give the best to their children, but for a principal and staff to feel they are facing into a grim future under extreme financial pressure is simply soul destroying. Saplings special school caters for children from the age of four to 18. This model of school was first established by a small group of parents and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2019)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...in the railway station? I have been informed by Irish Rail that a staff member will disembark at all stations to help with machine tickets and acceptability issues. I worry that we are slowly destroying rural Ireland and its way of life. Transport poverty and accessibility are social and environmental issues. More than one in four people living with a disability do not use public...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Renewable Energy Projects (15 May 2018)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...corn and rapeseed would remove an income stream worth €5 billion to €6 billion per year to EU farmers, devastate rural economies, close the best immediate option for decarbonising transport and destroy investor interest in the biofuel industry. I pointed out that by chopping and changing EU biofuel policy the European Commission has had a devastating impact on existing...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2018)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: They are allowed to trade without regulation and have no issues with lives they have destroyed.

Seanad: Sale of Permanent TSB Loan Book: Statements (22 Feb 2018)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...funds have taken over in Ireland. There seems to be no rules for how these vulture companies do their business. They are allowed to trade unregulated. They have no concern for the lives they destroy. I ask the Minister to stop it and to regulate and tax these companies. Most of all, I ask him to make them furnish a list of all properties acquired by them to each local authority so...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Renewable Energy Projects (9 Mar 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...recommend ending the EU production of all crops-based biofuels. If enacted the proposals will have a disastrous impact on farming and on rural jobs across Europe and in Ireland and they will destroy efforts to revive the Irish sugar industry. The secretary general of Europe's main farming organisation, the Committee of Professional Agricultural Organisations, COPA, has pointed out that...