Results 1-6 of 6 for destroyed speaker:Johnny Guirke

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Johnny Guirke: ...the rubble. Over 60,000 are injured. More than 1.9 million people have been forcibly displaced multiple times. Hospitals and schools have been flattened and 70% of housing accommodation has been destroyed. There is a lack of food, water and medicine. Israel is destroying Gaza's food system intentionally and imposing a high rate of disease, prolonged malnutrition, dehydration and...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Johnny Guirke: ...place. This scheme continues the disrespect demonstrated in attempts to seal survivors’ records, in the leaking of the commission's report to the media before survivors had a chance to see it and in the destroying of survivors’ evidence given to the commission. What is so fundamentally wrong with the State in 2021 that it would seek to prolong rather than help to ease the...

Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel: Statements (20 May 2021)

Johnny Guirke: Hundreds of people have been killed by Israeli air strikes on Gaza and almost a third of that number are children. There are 1,000 people wounded while 17 hospitals and clinics have been damaged or destroyed in the Gaza Strip. Its only coronavirus lab has been wrecked and water pipes serving 800,000 people have been broken. Sewerage systems inside Gaza have also been destroyed, with dozens...

Housing Shared Equity Loan Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (3 Mar 2021)

Johnny Guirke: ...pat on the back and a deal done. Developers wrote this policy for the Minister when Sinn Féin told them to sling their hook. I am referring to the developer friends who, along with others, bankrupted and destroyed the country. A little over a year ago the population of our country voted for seismic change. They voted for something different. They voted for people who would...

Community Safety and Preventing Crime: Statements (18 Nov 2020)

Johnny Guirke: ...be able to address that. If a crime takes place in Athboy or my own town of Oldcastle, it can take up to an hour for a Garda patrol car to arrive. Drug dealers are openly selling drugs on the streets, destroying young people's lives. These drug dealers and criminal gangs are relocating to rural areas. They see our towns and villages as safe havens where there is not much chance of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Nov 2020)

Johnny Guirke: ...in counties Meath and Westmeath. Those small businesses pay the main rates base in those counties. If we do not look after them, the rates base in Meath and Westmeath, and similar counties, will be destroyed in the long term when the Covid-19 pandemic is over. We must, therefore, get a plan in place and look after these small retailers. This is their second busiest month of the year...