Results 1-20 of 21 for destroyed speaker:Cian O'Callaghan

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...they do not have the resources and capacity to deal with these issues. Then, the protected structures have been vandalised, damaged and broken into. They can be subject to fire damage that can destroy them. There can be outbreaks of dry rot. There can be theft of architectural features, as well as vandalism and damage to them, including, for example, decorative ceilings, etc. All of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: .... We need to go back to the first principles of planning on this. Why do we have a planning system? When we brought in a planning system, no one said let us bring in a system to try to break up and destroy Gaeltacht communities. That was never the intention of the planning system but that is exactly what is happening now with what the planning system is facilitating with the lack of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...arguing that language should be the only consideration. It is just one of many considerations. I am saying that developments that could undermine the language in a Gaeltacht area, and ultimately destroy it, may, on the balance of things and because of different considerations, get the green light. That is where I have a fundamental disagreement with the Minister of State. I absolutely...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...Israeli military and the Israeli Government. Ten children are losing one or more limbs per day. UNICEF has called this a war on children. A total of 350,000 Palestinian homes in Gaza have been destroyed, representing 60% of its entire housing stock, and 61 hospitals and healthcare facilities have been damaged or destroyed with weapons supplied by the US. The South African case reads: ...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...would be legally obliged to notify and inform any future owners of said property of the presence and legal status of the Registered Monument. (3) In the event of a Registered Monument being damaged or destroyed, an enforcement order shall be placed on its footprint guaranteeing the protection of the surviving subsurface elements of the monument, and the legally protected associated...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...to take a register action. There is very nice language in this Bill, but what we are talking about is removing monuments’ protection from the register so that those monuments can effectively be removed or destroyed. It is a significant measure. I will not go back over the history of this country, but even in recent decades and as Deputy Ó Snodaigh mentioned, we have seen the...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...she wishes. There have, at times, been Ministers who simply do not value heritage and consider it an inconvenience. Due to ministerial decisions going back to the 1960s, significant parts of our heritage were destroyed simply because the Ministers of the day did not value it. In fact, in the late 1950s and the 1960s, there was a period of about ten years where there was a rush towards...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: My concern is the bigger picture on this. Since 1840, according to a Heritage Council survey in 2001, 34% of archaeological monuments have been destroyed, and that has continued since 2001. That is a complete failure of the legislation we have had to date and the resources that have been put in behind it. Once a monument is destroyed, it is destroyed forever; that is it. It is gone. It...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...with the sale of the land is to pass on that information. That would be robust, would work and would be fair and equitable and we would get much better protection of monuments. Often, when monuments are destroyed, it can be because people simply do not know or they had just heard a faint rumour that there is something there of significance, but they do not really think it is. They do...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Before the debate was adjourned, I was making the point that according to the 2001 survey published by the Heritage Council, 34% of the State's archaeological monuments had been destroyed since 1840. The survey found the destruction was continuing at an alarming rate. Once a monument is destroyed, it is gone forever; it can never be brought back. We have seen such destruction in Wood Quay...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...Heritage Council's report from the survey it did in 2001 on archaeological features that were at risk is absolutely damning. It showed that 34% of the State's archaeological monuments have been destroyed since 1840 and that the destruction was continuing at an alarming rate. When we are looking at this Bill we should be incredibly mindful of that. There are approximately 1,000...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...regarding the heads about the lack of timelines, too much discretion, lack of detail, lack of obligations when marine protected areas are designated and a lack of remedies for habitats that were destroyed or damaged prior to marine protected area designations. When will the marine protected areas come into existence? Will there be provision in the Bill to give timelines and specifics on...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...are paying their rent, who are upholding their end of the tenancy agreement, are not engaged in antisocial behaviour, to have their tenancy ripped to shreds and their home life completely upturned and destroyed because a landlord wants to sell the property. It is not possible. Legislation like this could not be brought in because there is a permanent ban on such evictions. That is a...

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...for the tenants starting this case with Residential Tenancies Board, the apparent landlord or their agent entered the property, shut off the electricity, ripped the curtains off the wall and destroyed the bathrooms to the extent that there is no functioning toilet or shower. This is all on video. The landlord also left a note to the tenants which confirmed that the electricity would be...

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)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...Ministers and public representatives can come under a lot of pressure for infrastructure to be delivered within a particular timeframe and, at times, that could mean very valuable heritage getting destroyed, which everybody could regret five or ten years later but it is then too late. Having that oversight is beneficial for everybody. In addition, the level of interest in heritage can...

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)

Cian O'Callaghan: Two things struck me from reading An Taisce's submission. The first is the survey showing that 34% of the State's archaeological monuments have been destroyed since 1840. That is very stark. The destruction is continuing at an alarming rate. Since 2007, only nine prosecutions have been taken by the DPP on the recommendations of An Garda Síochána for alleged offences under the...

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Second Stage (20 Jan 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...not be a proportionate penalty. We have seen the situation recently where building defects can lead to costs of millions of euro, indeed, up to billions of euro, for homeowners and the State. That is not to mention the human cost. This can absolutely destroy people's lives. It can put relationships under massive strain and pressure due to the worry about it and the financial pressure....

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage's scrutiny process of this legislation, the Dublin Democratic Planning Alliance stated: We see that our cities and communities are being destroyed through a planning system that is increasingly and detrimentally altered under the pressure from private developers and institutional investment funds interested only in short-term...

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Statements (15 Dec 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...in bringing forward negotiations for the 2017 treaty and ensuring their ultimate success. There are still approximately 14,000 nuclear weapons in the world. These weapons have the potential to destroy the planet and its population many times over. The retention of nuclear weapons and the threat of an arms race are drivers of insecurity and risk. They do not make us more secure, but...