Results 1-20 of 91 for destroyed speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...understand their duties and role in ensuring the protection of buildings so that they take action a lot more quickly to ensure tiles do not move off a roof and allow water to enter a building and destroy it, as has happened in many cases in this city, in particular in the 1960s and 1970s. As I said, that is happening in other areas as we speak because once some buildings are granted...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...context is totally lost, although it might be quaint in itself. It is still very valuable historically, obviously. The same can be said of structures here. Thankfully, not all of them have been destroyed. I remember campaigning many moons ago to save Frescati House, Blackrock. Next to it was a supermarket or shopping mall that bore absolutely no relation to it. The house was...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...burial sites so one can start multiplying the number of national monuments we have. It makes the job a lot more difficult but not impossible. It is about trying to capture that people understand that it is not theirs to destroy or charge fees to visit and the history that goes with all of these monuments should be shared as much as possible. That might mean access to the site by...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...to define that context. I have gone back over Men Who Eat Ringforts, the book by Sinéad Mercer. There are other features in it as well but that lays out all of the ringforts that have been destroyed over the years. It is an absolutely fantastic book and an easy read. One would just pick it up and read it from cover to cover. It details how we have lost 30,000 monuments throughout...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...monuments legislation in the past has taken us and failed to protect sites which would have been regarded as invaluable in any other jurisdiction. Although certain other countries have also destroyed some of their heritage, it certainly happened in this city, not just with the Wood Quay site but with others. Frascati House was also destroyed and we now have a shopping centre and an...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...An Taisce before amending or deleting particulars from the register. It refers to "consultation with Ard-Mhusaem na hÉireann, An Chomhairle Oidhreachta, and An Taisce". Amendment No. 177 seeks to ensure no monument is destroyed unless the board of the National Museum of Ireland believes there is not or is no longer sufficient interest to justify continued protection, with the consent...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Apr 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...to show the working-class history of Dublin, the street traders and the connection with the revolution? We are missing the boat. Yes, I welcome the fact that a number of buildings have been retained by the State but we are falling way short, and I will continue to campaign for the entire terrace and a number of other associated buildings to be protected and revitalised in the way I have...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...at a funeral in Ballyfermot recently have fully recovered. Only a number of months ago, two members of An Garda Síochána were in a car and they were rammed. Some elements of society believe they are a law unto themselves. Without support, the community is afraid because it does not see gardaí day in, day out. The gardaí are then made feel unwelcome because the only...

An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ..., the IRA, were told that there would be a day soon when the war would be waged again. However, there are some who would rather erase our history. In this context, let there be no illusion that some people would rather it would be destroyed. Does anybody bar me find it obscene that those presiding on planning applications often have skin in the game? Some are definitely not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...threatened by climate change but also by human activity, as they have always been threatened. There are periods in our history and society where it is not just the farmer but also the State that has destroyed some of our monuments, or at least the context in which those monuments exist. There is the question of what happens in the event of the destruction of a monument. Is it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (3 Feb 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...in preparation for this. I welcome the quote from the Heritage Council's study that 34% of the State's identified archaeological monuments, and there are so many more as we have seen, have been destroyed. I have not read the report, but does it have a list, or examples, of the destruction and where it is? I know of some but, again, it would be useful if that report was circulated....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Heritage Council: Chairperson Designate (23 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...proposals around the city. Merchant's Arch is one example. If we build a high-rise hotel on top of Merchant's Arch, we then lose the context of the building. There are other buildings that have been destroyed. There seems to be a phase whereby we are destroying the buildings that are part of our living heritage. When I was growing up, I remember going on the Wood Quay marches. I...

Ceathrú Chultúir 1916 Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Mar 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...been raised. The Committee of Public Accounts might find a way to look at NAMA's Project Jewel and the fact that one NAMA official who was centrally involved in the Moore Street transaction left NAMA to head Hammerson Ireland, the company that is seeking to destroy parts of the 1916 fabric. The Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, apologised to me last night for the fact that he was...

Ceathrú Chultúir 1916 Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Mar 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...market. This is intertwined with all the other activities and life in general. That is what Moore Street could be rather than what has been planned over the years, whether a huge shopping mall or office blocks. We cannot stand idly by, to use a term from history, and watch as developers plan to destroy what is our architectural heritage. Once that heritage is gone, it is gone forever...

An Bille um Cheathrú Chultúir 1916, 2021: First Stage (11 Mar 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...is not befitting such an historic monument. This time it is the British shopping centres owner Hammerson, which was virtually gifted the site by the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, when Mr. Joe O'Reilly's property empire crumbled. It is a strange world that the head of Hammerson Ireland worked for NAMA for a period. Destroying or partially destroying such an important site to...

Covid-19 (Arts): Statements (6 Oct 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...Dan from Walkinstown says: I am stressed. I am under financial strains. I have borrowed and I am not sure I can pay it back. I have been abandoned by the Government and the Department of Social Protection. I and at least 35,000 others like me are part of an industry that has been destroyed, /this industry is one of the main reasons that our powerfully successful tourism industry is so...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Army Barracks (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I said 100 buildings needed to be destroyed in the morning.