Results 1-20 of 24 for destroyed speaker:Gary Gannon

Second Anniversary of War in Ukraine: Statements (20 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...to all to realise that the full horror of war, on a scale we could never have imagined, was once again upon us. I think of women giving birth in Gaza at this very moment in time, when hospitals and maternity hospitals are equally being destroyed. These women are giving birth without any access to medication. We have rightly heard tributes paid to Alexei Navalny who was targeted by...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (15 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...FC and Belvedere Youth Club are all football teams which have done incredible work over the years in providing outlets for young people who might otherwise be at risk. Their pitches have been destroyed. This issue has captured a lot of attention over the past couple of months. It was initially caused by a car driving through Fairview Park. We then had a couple of different motorbikes...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Facilities (24 Jan 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...city at all. There is an AstroTurf facility in Grangegorman. It is extraordinarily expensive, at €190 per game. There is the AUL Complex, where there are similar expenses. The pitch was destroyed; it will not be possible to use it. It is not the first time vandalism has taken place on the pitch. In this instance Dublin City Council took down the gate. There was negligence...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Facilities (24 Jan 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...about at least 60 or 70 kids who every single weekend have had their games called off. To give some context, in November the pitches on which they previously played on Alfie Byrne Road were destroyed as a consequence of a half marathon that was organised by a different group. It was organised I think by Clontarf running club and sponsored by Joe Duffy motors. The start and end point...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...is anathema to ourselves. It has become a vogue at the moment for Israeli ministers and other Israeli people to write their names on bombs that will then be sent into the Gaza population. These are 2,000 lb plus bombs, which can destroy a space half the size of County Louth. This destroys any semblance of foreign policy achievement by the Irish Government. In 2022 the Irish Government...

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

Gary Gannon: ...know the reason he refuses to use it. I will give a legal definition of genocide. The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as ... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or...

Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: .... Israel has not just engaged in the murder of children. There is no longer any prospect of counting the full total of the dead. The figures stopped on Friday as too many hospitals tended to the wounded and collecting the dead has been destroyed; too many bodies lay on the rubble. Some 30,000 people have been injured. More than 100 UN workers have been targeted and killed by the...

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly. The Geneva Convention defines genocide as committing specified acts involving "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such". The group is what must be targeted on grounds that include nationality or ethnicity, and it...

Capital Support for Sports Facilities: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...playing in the park, leading to the exclusion of various age groups at least biweekly. Since the turn of 2023, there have been three separate occasions when the pitches in Fairview Park have been destroyed by scrambler motorbikes or stolen cars, an issue I know the Cathaoirleach Gníomhachhas been raising since we were both members of Dublin City Council. We cannot talk about sporting...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...There are 60,000 children in classrooms of 30 pupils or more. All the while, many of those students return home with letters demanding voluntary contributions, a practice so outdated and cruel that it destroys any misconceived notion that education in this country is free. It is free at the point of entry and children are going home with a letter in their backpacks for their mothers who...

Report of the Independent Review Group on Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...could be unaware of them without purposely looking away. I will and must be able to speak truth to power in this Chamber. Pleading blissful ignorance is not good enough when countless lives have been destroyed over decades and when whispers, and comments that were louder still, were on the lips of anyone relatively close to the situation. We cannot be cagey in our responses. A...

Energy Costs and Windfall Taxes: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...in homes, yet here we are still urging the Government to show some urgency and take a war-time-like mentality. The crisis is being experienced in terms of hunger and cold. Dreams, aspirations and quality of life are being destroyed, and that destruction is being exacerbated by inaction. That is why we are tabling this motion. Although this summer's measures will be welcome, a...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Dec 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...that when he responds. The Bill is largely welcome. It is a big step forward in how the State regulates the gambling industry, which has been patchwork at best for decades. Problem gambling destroys lives, families and communities. To date, we have largely let the gambling industry run rampant throughout the country, with the few restrictions that are currently in place on its operation...

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...from the so-called war on drugs initiated by US President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s? It is certainly not the communities in the north inner city that I grew up in and represent, nor is it the communities destroyed across Ireland, the UK and America as a consequence of the current approach. The legal profession has benefited from the war on drugs. Consider the circumstances of an...

Dublin City Safety Initiatives and Other Services: Statements (17 Nov 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...addiction. Nobody wants to find themselves down a lane in the capital city injecting themselves or smoking poison. If we can accept that, we might also accept that the gateways to these scourges that destroy the lives of people, not just in the past year but since heroin use first penetrated into my city in the late 1970s, are poverty, trauma and neglect. They are gateways to the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Human Rights (2 Jun 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...land, we should take an interest in it long after the coal has been burnt. They have asked for a human rights assessment and, if required, that we pay reparations to the communities and villages being destroyed by the demand for this coal. They accept we will need this coal for the next couple of years until we transition away from its use but they do not accept that they must suffer in...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht), 2022: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...tactics used by them and others successfully all round the world, was written in the blood of the Irish people. The British empire trialled ways to keep the native population down, determined to destroy our autonomy, language, education and culture. We know only too well the detrimental impact that this has had, and continues to have, on our shared island. Our peace here was hard...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: .... The people of Palestine must be looking on and asking, "Why are we different? Do the bombs not hurt us as much?" The torture, the demolitions, the manner in which their homes are being destroyed; how is that different? There is an obligation on the Irish Republic to not be hypocritical in how we engage. I understand that we want to be seen as neutral actors, but we cannot be neutral...

Annexation of Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...Defence Force, which was not only targeting the fighters but also, in many cases, children and their parents. We tried to make sense of how a country that presents itself as a modern democracy could destroy a building that contains a news outlet and journalists tasked with reporting on the conflict. We tried to make sense of how Israel could continue to expel families from their homes...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Repeal of Part V Leasing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 May 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...O'Callaghan, for bringing forward this Bill and for the leadership he has shown on this issue throughout his time in Dáil Éireann and beforehand. The inability to access housing and a home is destroying lives in this country, and has done for more than a decade. This debate happens regularly in this Chamber, as it should as a point of conversation in national debate. Too...