Results 1-20 of 22 for destroyed speaker:Lynn Ruane

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

Lynn Ruane: ...turning on each other and eating each other up while we all sit here and have debates. We call for more police while they are the ones who are still suffering. People with nothing are killing and destroying people with nothing. None of them have anything. They have nothing to lose and they are eating each other up. We are all super privileged to be able to stand in this Chamber and...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...for selective use of body cams or the legislation will be toothless and we will be in the exactly the same position as the UK. The legislation, as drafted, creates specific penalties for destroying data collected by a body cam but it does not create any penalties for selectively turning on and off body cams, which we know to be real issues from looking at other jurisdictions. On Second...

Seanad: Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...last survey on the destruction of archaeological sites carried out by the Heritage Council in 2001, which surveyed 1.4% of all known monuments in the State, found that 34% of ring forts had been destroyed since first recorded in ordnance surveys beginning in the 1820s.The rate of destruction increased over decades, reaching 6.5% in the late 1990s. My amendment seeks to ensure that...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and occupied Palestinian territory: Statements (12 Jul 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...coalition, the Irish Anti-Apartheid Campaign for Palestine. The Government will issue press releases when Palestinians are murdered in the occupied territory or when an Irish Aid-funded school is destroyed. These are words crafted by committee, designed to appease certain American and European politicians and officials who, through their inaction, are complicit in this ongoing pattern of...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...? We do mental acrobatics in our heads to try to tell ourselves we are not responsible for that. It does not matter whether we stand here and vote against motions, put in countermotions that destroy the principles of human rights and dignity or go into the fucking sea ourselves and push them away with our own hands - I apologise and retract the "F" word - we are responsible.

Seanad: Forestry: Statements (15 Nov 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...conservation.Countries in the global north, including Ireland, must do everything we can to support the protection of our rainforests and ensure there is an end to multinational companies actively destroying nature and biodiversity. I am not sure if the Minister of State heard the speech made by the President of Colombia at the UN. It was one of the most powerful speeches I have ever...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Sep 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...generations have lived for years are the consequence. We are living with consequences every single day when we continue to bury our loved ones and our family members, and when we continue to be destroyed by chaotic drug use, by death in our community and by violence in our community.Our literal existence is often the consequence. A garda coming into an estate or a potential day in court...

Seanad: Human Rights in China: Motion (1 Dec 2021)

Lynn Ruane: ..., the US has recently joined several countries, including Canada and the Netherlands, in accusing China of committing genocide, defined by the United Nations genocide convention as the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group". Despite the ongoing abused of Uighur Muslims, it would be wrong to say that their treatment is unexpected. China has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2021)

Lynn Ruane: ...in this. Has there been much discussion around the mechanisms or relationships needed to ensure that other stakeholders, aside from the main agencies managing this, will not attempt to conceal or destroy any records that are not currently held within the agencies during the gathering process? Given the amount of information that is going to come in about adopted people - whether they...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2021)

Lynn Ruane: ...raising an extremely concerning report from the Irish Examinerover the weekend with regard to the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes. The report states that the commission has destroyed audio recordings of the interviews given by survivors of the mother and baby homes and that the oral testimony of evidence given to the commission's confidential committee no longer...

Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2020)

Lynn Ruane: ...Michael D'Arcy who actually inspired the tabling of this amendment. He did so on Second Stage, when he commented that: "investors are [significantly] ahead of everyone else ... because, If we destroy the world through climate change, there will be no world economy". Through this amendment, I am proposing that if it is the case that the thinking of investors is so well developed and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Retention of Records Bill 2019: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: Dr. O'Rourke made the point that there is no legal basis for the destruction. There has been an argument that if this Bill is not passed next week, all the files will be destroyed. It is very important that we push back against that narrative,as it will be used to get people to vote in a particular way. Ms Crowe spoke of how the template exists and there is no reason to recreate how we do...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (6 Nov 2019)

Lynn Ruane: .... I urge the Minister of State to include some definition of “recreational and sporting needs (including greenways) appropriate to bog habitats”. The idea that a natural bog habitat would be destroyed to build a golf course would fill most people in the country with horror. We need to provide some assurance that that will not be the case and establish this House as one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)

Lynn Ruane: ...all over social media. Just because her accident happened in a public place should not mean that she does not have a right to privacy and dignity. The damage that this caused our family has destroyed our faith in humanity. It goes beyond the initial trauma of just seeing the image, but has completely destroyed our emotional well-being. Everyday life is impossible. Everything from...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Lynn Ruane: ...of State to give us more information. The amendments mention strategies and action plans but will there be regulations protecting sites such as the Tallaght wetlands? Will they make it illegal to destroy conservation areas such as this, or will there just be guidelines?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Traveller Education: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Lynn Ruane: ...was there before, as if that was adequate, which does not acknowledge the damage done to the Travelling community since the early 1960s. We also need to acknowledge that when austerity budgets destroyed aspects of the education system it was a disaster for the Travelling community. If we are recommending the reinstatement of a visiting teacher the question is whether that was enough....

Seanad: Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: ...further to determine why it has no information pertaining to an institution with which it was heavily involved? Either this is a sinister matter and the HSE has refused to supply or has destroyed the information or it was completely incompetent and kept no information up until the early 2000's. I am not talking here about the 1940s, 1950s or even the 1960s. I am talking about the period...

Seanad: Community and Rural Support Schemes: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: ...nor is there any sign that they will. It is a sector which has no formal pension system. A strong argument can be made that austerity suited those in political power to settle other scores and to destroy any possible forms or sources of dissent and even competition. No part of the community sector was spared. All this was done to pay bank debt and today it is as if it never happened at...

Seanad: Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Lynn Ruane: ...Traveller ethnicity and that is for nothing if we do not have policy initiatives. These policy initiatives are the least we can do in terms of making it up to the Traveller community. The State destroyed the Traveller community and its participation in a way of life. It destroyed their identity and rejected them. We forced Travellers into situations where they had to descend on cities...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42- Department of Rural and Community Development (17 Oct 2018)

Lynn Ruane: ...of 180 CDPs in 2008, with those remaining being dissolved later. Local workers were taken over by managers who were not local and did not understand the target or approach needed in communities which had been destroyed by poverty and various social issues. Coming from the community sector, the Department's community development brief covers one of the most important aspects of life in...