Results 1-6 of 6 for destroyed speaker:Robbie Gallagher

Seanad: Coroners (Provision for Jury Selection) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Robbie Gallagher: ...those loved ones. There is no excuse for that. Successive Governments need to look at themselves in the mirror as to why the families are sitting in the Chamber today, 41 years after their lives were destroyed and turned upside down. It is important that we look back and learn from looking back. We must also let today be the first step in us all working together to ensure that the...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (1 Feb 2021)

Robbie Gallagher: .... As the Minister of State outlined, the Bill is significant legislation for tracking money laundering. Money laundering is a crime that helps serious criminals and terrorists to function. By extension, it destroys many lives in the process. Criminals are always alert to opportunities to exploit the EU's borders. As such, EU-wide measures are vital if we are to tackle the issue. The...

Seanad: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (21 Nov 2019)

Robbie Gallagher: ...never have been practising in this country. In other cases, the doctors involved had numerous complaints made against them over many years. This tiny number of people were going about their business destroying people's lives.These people found out afterwards that there had been complaints against these doctors for decades but nobody ever knew and they had no way of finding out. We...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Heritage Sites (19 Feb 2019)

Robbie Gallagher: ...to 1801. Until the 1990s, the building was used as a library and the Courts Service also used the building, but since then it has remained vacant and is in an advancing state of decay. It is soul destroying for the people of Castleblayney to see this iconic building in the heart of their town decay to this current condition. In recent weeks, Monaghan County Council has found it...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2018)

Robbie Gallagher: ...there a priority. Unfortunately, last week's announcement that there would be further delay in the national broadband scheme will demoralise the people of rural Ireland further. It is soul destroying when, year after year, these figures are published showing job creation or, more accurately, the lack thereof, in the Border counties and rural Ireland generally. I do not see any reason...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2017)

Robbie Gallagher: ...various kinds. The local MABS offices constitute a vital link between the local community and the main MABS office. If this proposal is to proceed - we certainly hope it does not - that link would be destroyed, which would be an awful pity. Staff members are in limbo and are facing uncertainty because they do not know what the future holds for them. I suggest that the proposed...