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Seanad: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Mar 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...when discussing this matter with my colleague, Teachta O'Reilly. However, I want to read into the Official Report of the Seanad the need for legislation to deal with tactical insolvencies, which have the result of destroying workers' collective redundancy entitlements. We saw it with Clerys, La Senza, Paris Bakery, TalkTalk, and Debenhams how tactical and other opaque insolvencies can...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Statements (30 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...In recent days, my colleague in the Assembly, Linda Dillon MLA, has welcomed the move by the health minister in the North to make it illegal for mother and baby homes, Magdalen laundries and workhouses to destroy the personal records of women and children who lived in them. The Government here needs to genuinely listen to the survivors and urgently review the redress scheme in terms of...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...now. A friend of a friend, who has spent his entire life protecting and enhancing nature and the natural world, gave his view of the pandemic that nature perceives humans as being out to destroy it and it is fighting back. He might be right or he might be wrong, but there is something profoundly wrong in the relationship between humankind and Mother Earth. The pandemic is symbolic of...

Seanad: Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Bill 2019: Second and Subsequent Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...for testing purposes and demonstrations. That, obviously, has created significant environmental damage. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimated that in 2017 there were approximately 14,465 nuclear weapons in the world. They all need to be destroyed and put beyond use. The cornerstone of international efforts to begin nuclear disarmament is the Treaty on the...

Seanad: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (5 Dec 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...in Ireland. A clear example of how the legislation would work is by stopping goods and services from illegal Israeli colonial settlements from entering the State. For decades, Israel has attempted to destroy the two-state solution by increasing massively the construction of illegal colonial settlements in Palestine. The building of these illegal colonial settlements violates...

Seanad: Foreign Affairs: Statements (6 Feb 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...a school for children in the occupied West Bank because they said they were built illegally. This is the fifth time they have done this since 2016. How does the Government plan on holding Israel to account for destroying schools built with Irish and EU taxpayers’ money? Will the Government demand compensation and the rebuilding of the schools? It is time for the Government to...

Seanad: Life Saving Equipment Bill 2017: Second Stage (23 Jan 2018)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...The equipment has made a difference and can do so in the future but we need to ensure it is in place and protected. We must educate and inform people and raise awareness of the importance of the equipment. My colleagues, party and I believe that when informed people deliberately destroy or vandalise pieces of life-saving equipment, or obstruct their use, they should face the necessary...

Seanad: Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...of State and his officials to reflect on the sentiments expressed in the previous amendments. We are dealing with criminals who are preying on society and living lavish lifestyles while routinely destroying the communities that we all care for, come from and have the privilege to represent. There is an urgency in the core elements of the Bill and we do not intend in anything we do to try...