Results 1-12 of 12 for destroyed speaker:Ruairi Ó Murchú

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...it has to lead to negotiations. Outside of the deaths and the 60,000 to 70,000 people who have been injured, many of them brutally, as the Minister of State noted, infrastructure in Gaza has been destroyed. Unfortunately, we have heard Benjamin Netanyahu say that there will be no Palestinian state. In fairness, this is probably something he has said many times and in many ways before....

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...lesser. We are talking about the destruction of 25,000 lives and the displacement of 2 million people. We are talking about a part of the world half the size of my county that has been absolutely destroyed from the air.

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...been held to account and so has never needed to deal with the realities on the ground. What did Netanyahu say? We are at war and we will continue the war until we achieve all our goals ... To destroy Hamas, return all our hostages and ensure that no entity in Gaza can threaten [Israel]. Where will this stop? Nothing in Gaza can be a threat to Israel. Almost 15,000 people have been...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (8 Nov 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...cannot get onto a line that goes to a pumping station, so the water literally lies in the estate. If we were to have further rain or the rains they had in the Cooley Peninsula, the estate would be destroyed. Councillor Antóin Watters and I covered a huge area. The Turf Road in Edentubber was ripped away but at least works are being planned for that. There is also Deerpark in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (8 Nov 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...schemes, a very particular issue that I will deal with in respect of Dundalk. Obviously, the Department of Transport has responsibility in that a large number of roads and bridges have been destroyed. Carlingford and parts of the Cooley Peninsula have been absolutely devastated. People are going through the rack and ruin of what are their homes and businesses. I commend the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (7 Nov 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...humanitarian assistance scheme and the emergency business flood relief scheme. A request has been made to provide a scheme for farmers whose lands have been damaged and whose feedstock has been destroyed. A major issue is Government funding to make sure infrastructure such as roads can be reopened and bridges fixed. We should then look at what mitigation is possible in north County...

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...This is not about cutting down every tree. It is about replacing them with trees that are more fit for purpose in these areas, trees that are not going to hit the sewerage system and block it or destroy the foundations of people's homes and create huge levels of nuisance value. That is something that needs to be built into that work, alongside the work that has to be done on the wider...

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...I am not the only person who has looked for trees to be replaced because what happens is we end up with utterly useless leylandii that do not nothing but block the sewerage system and are absolutely destroying the area underneath people's homes and all the rest of it. We need some sort of sensible facility for fixing these sorts of daft problems. I accept that people looked at trees from...

Afghanistan Crisis: Statements (29 Sep 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...an abject failure and that cost 20 years and trillions of dollars. The big regret in any of these situations is the fact that had that money been spent on something other than armaments and on destroying whatever level of infrastructure and economy there was in Afghanistan, we could possibly be in a better place. The international community and the American regime in particular did...

Scrambler Motorbikes and Quad Bikes: Motion [Private Members] (17 Nov 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...streets and community green spaces at all hours of the day and night. I refer to estates in Dundalk, council land, parks, private land and even farmland on the edge of town where crops were destroyed by scramblers. Yearly, we are told by An Garda and the Road Safety Authority of the serious safety hazard of these powerful machines. They have the potential to injure people severely or...

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (Resumed) (17 Sep 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...through this gap at this point in time. We need to look at those sorts of solutions. Beyond that, we need to build and maintain a capacity for testing, tracing and isolating. We will absolutely destroy whatever good economic work has been done if we cannot keep the show on the road. The reality is that we do not have the capacity required. I mentioned in the House earlier and last...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ..., we have had a large number of forests with which there have been an increasing number of issues. That is likely to continue into the future. Last week, large tracts of cultural land were destroyed on the Cooley Peninsula, with the fire spreading onto local authority lands. I commend the fire services from Louth County Council for the incredible work they did while at the same time...