Results 1-20 of 33 for destroyed speaker:Frances Black

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Apr 2024)

Frances Black: ...countries continue to provide Israel with weapons, aid, diplomatic cover and preferential trading arrangements. People are starving and Gaza's healthcare infrastructure has been absolutely destroyed. Aid is needed urgently to prevent famine and disease from spiralling out of control. Activists from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition are setting out to do what governments have so far...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Frances Black: ...due to bombardment, invasion by Israeli soldiers and a lack of fuel. Bodies are piling up that cannot be buried. People are having to endure surgical procedures without anaesthetic. Israel has destroyed every university in Gaza. It is important to highlight all of these horrific issues. Leading academics, artists and journalists are being murdered at an even higher rate than other...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2023)

Frances Black: ...wall. What is worse is that settlers have engaged in a co-ordinated campaign of violence against Palestinians. They are often escorted by soldiers as they rampage through Palestinian villages, destroying buildings and olive trees, stealing livestock and agricultural equipment and vandalising water tanks, pipes and solar panels.Settlers have murdered at least a dozen Palestinians in the...

Seanad: The Political Situation in Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Oct 2023)

Frances Black: ...to please proceed on this vital issue. Ireland has an ironclad case, and interstate legislation would save victims' families huge amounts of struggle and heartbreak. Nobody can understand what it is like for those victims and this legacy Bill is absolutely soul-destroying for them. The Government now has a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate practical and tangible solidarity and it is...

Seanad: Control of Exports Bill 2023: Committee Stage (11 Oct 2023)

Frances Black: ...multiple submunitions or bomblets over a wide area. Many submunitions fail to explode on initial impact, leaving remnants that indiscriminately injure and kill, like land mines, for years, until they are cleared and destroyed. Contamination from cluster munitions remnants denies access to agricultural land, creates barriers to socioeconomic development and hinders the delivery of...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2023)

Frances Black: ...contact with family and friends and other supports; (h) behaviour that causes harm to the relevant person, or to another person, if the relevant person fails to comply with demands made of the relevant person; (i) behaviour that damages or destroys property; (j) behaviour that is economically or financially abusive. (4) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is...

Seanad: Ban on Dumping New Products Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Frances Black: ...the workers labouring in oppressive and unbearable conditions to produce what is then so casually discarded. Luxury firms have a different approach which is, however, also profoundly wasteful. They will destroy excess stock so that oversupply does not impinge on the perceived value of the clothes, which is maintained through artificial scarcity and ludicrously overinflated prices. The...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Jul 2023)

Frances Black: ...deployed the cruel and illegal tactic of impeding ambulance services from aiding the wounded. I cannot stop thinking about the children being marched down the street, their already meagre homes destroyed, carrying their toys, their pets and whatever small comforts they have to hold onto. In Israel war crimes are committed and Palestinians are killed as a form of political theatre to prop...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2023)

Frances Black: ...contact with family and friends and other supports, (h) behaviour that causes harm to the relevant person, or to another person, if the relevant person fails to comply with demands made of the relevant person, (i) behaviour that damages or destroys property, (j) behaviour that is economically or financially abusive. (4) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Frances Black: ...proposed amendments to section 29 of the principal Act, a provision that where records of medical leave are kept, as well as the three-year limit for the retention of such records, they shall be destroyed when employment ceases, whichever occurs earlier. As such records are likely to contain sensitive information, it is important from a data protection viewpoint that sensitive information...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2023)

Frances Black: ..., why is the Irish Government abandoning them in their struggle? Let us be clear. These raids are designed to terrorise Palestinians with the goal of ethically cleansing them from their land and destroying any resistance against Israel's apartheid regime. I believe this Government and, in fact, the whole world has lost all connection to the realities that ordinary Palestinians face....

Seanad: Gambling (Prohibition of Advertising) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Frances Black: ..., the Labour Party's Bill is a welcome development. While gambling might seem harmless to the average spectator who makes the occasional bet, for many it is a black hole of compulsion that destroys their finances, their relationships and their mental health. Gambling has the highest rate of suicide of all the addictions. The rise of online betting means that gambling is more accessible...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (21 Oct 2021)

Frances Black: ...Mr. O'Reilly and Ms Kenny have to constantly fight for supports within the current system. I do not know where they get their energy from. It must be so exhausting and, as Ms Kenny said, soul-destroying, to constantly advocate and fight for supports and that Mr. O'Reilly, his family or Ms Kenny constantly have to re-prove they need those supports. Do they feel that having to do that...

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: Samaritans Ireland (5 Oct 2021)

Frances Black: ...what he said. I am involved with an organisation that works with families who have been impacted by addiction. The underlying trauma, anxiety, stress and worry that happens is completely soul destroying but there are unbelievable and amazing organisations to help. Do the Samaritans have specific asks?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Middle East (17 May 2021)

Frances Black: ...the Minister of State has to understand my frustration. It is very difficult to watch what is happening in Gaza and see children and families being killed. Not only this but their homes are being destroyed. They are given 58 seconds to leave their homes. What kind of world are we living in? I acknowledge the Minister is very passionate on this issue. I understand where he is coming...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2021)

Frances Black: ...revising today's schedule to allow us to debate the situation in Palestine, which means so much to me. I am completely and utterly exhausted from talking about what is going on. It is just soul-destroying and if I am feeling like that, what must it be like for the people of Palestine? The situation is just horrendous. I raised the issue as a Commencement matter this morning. I ask...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2021)

Frances Black: ...important and welcome EU and Irish support, mainly through the West Bank Protection Consortium and humanitarian organisations. In that time, however, Israeli authorities have simply come back and again destroyed or confiscated the structures. It has happened four times in as many months and it is greatly traumatising for the families impacted. I cannot even imagine the anguish they are...

Seanad: Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Statements (Resumed) (19 Feb 2021)

Frances Black: ...anonymity. Dr. Maeve O'Rourke rightly stated this week that anonymity "doesn’t mean we won’t fully transcribe your testimony, we will never give you a copy of what you said, we’ll then destroy your audio, you won’t be able to challenge our report." Ireland's shame has now gained international interest, and rightly so, with headlines across the world focused on...

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

Frances Black: ...had two debates on mother and baby homes, I feel I have to raise the issue again. We learned over the weekend that the audio recordings of the testimonies of survivors of the institutions had been destroyed. Many survivors have expressed anger at this latest development, saying they were not informed when giving their testimonies that they would be destroyed. It was shocking to hear...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Frances Black: ...10% of all women in the general population. That means over 100,000 women in Ireland are affected. The stories told by the women were very upsetting. The life of a very good friend of mine was destroyed by endometriosis in many ways. Her work was affected, she was constantly exhausted and the pain she went through impacted many relationships in her life. Those giving the briefing...