Results 1-12 of 12 for destroyed speaker:Mairead Farrell

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

Mairead Farrell: .... A week ago, the last remaining university in Gaza was levelled. Of course, it is no surprise that Israel is denying access to education just as it is denying the lives of the people of Gaza. It is trying to destroy their education. It is destroying their lives and history. We need to support South Africa's brave actions. The Government initially talked the talk but it must walk the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (28 Nov 2023)

Mairead Farrell: ...this may not have happened before or it may not have happened to this extent before, but we know this will happen again and asked what can we do to ensure it does not. Her business was completely destroyed in terms of what had been there previously. That was something that was not expected and was not anticipated. This is only really the start of our winter season, of our storm season...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Mairead Farrell: There is devastation in Galway. Businesses have been flooded and livelihoods completely destroyed. In Clarinbridge, business owners told me this was like nothing they had witnessed before. They are concerned and fearful that this is indicative of what is to come, perhaps even this winter but certainly in years to come. This is a massive blow to the livelihoods of the business owners and...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Mairead Farrell: ...a hysterectomy was clinically appropriate it was not deemed necessary and hence permissible. As a result, other treatments were prescribed: months-long cocktails of Pethidine injections, morphine patches, Oxycodone and Fentanyl were prescribed destroying her quality of life. Because she was 26 and had no living children, the hospital's religious ethos deemed a surgery that would improve...

Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Mairead Farrell: ...are treated in this country. Unfortunately, really damning evidence has emerged of things that have happened. During Committee Stage, we heard about people who felt their lives were destroyed when acting in the public interest. We know those people acted in the public interest; they did not do it for personal gain. They did it to make society better for as many people as possible....

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Mairead Farrell: ...will not benefit from this. They will not be able to pay those rents. It will just push them further away from home ownership and from even being able to rent. The reality is the Government's housing policy is destroying generations of young people and older people. When I hear Ministers telling us that the Government's housing policy is working, I do not disagree with them. For me,...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and New Decade, New Approach: Statements (1 Feb 2022)

Mairead Farrell: ...not pass on information, the reality of that is that people were dead within months. This was not simply a piece of information. This was people's lives, people who died and whose families’ lives were destroyed. We are now awaiting the publishing of a report by the Police Ombudsman at the start of next week which will deal with the killings of Sinn Féin members, Pat...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Mairead Farrell: ...years. Many of them have told me about the huge toll the process has taken on their mental health. Some people felt – and you do not have to meet with a whistleblower to hear this – that their lives destroyed and that their careers were ruined. It is difficult to watch people who sought to act in the public interest suffering such personal hardship. We often hear about...

Freedom of Information: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2021)

Mairead Farrell: ...confidence in political life has been eroded and will continue to be eroded without action; and calls on the Government to: — establish robust procedures in each Department to ensure that Ministers are no longer destroying records that should be maintained by the Department; — ensure that all Ministers are aware of their responsibilities under FOI legislation, all relevant...

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Mairead Farrell: ...of Information Act is written with the kind of admirable clarity that does not require a legal background to understand. It states that "a person ... without lawful excuse and with intention to deceive destroys or materially alters a record shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on summary conviction to a class B fine". I guess we will just have to let the public decide for...

Ballymurphy Inquest: Statements (18 May 2021)

Mairead Farrell: "It has taken 50 years ... for my brother and my neighbours to be vindicated. And that 50 years has destroyed our lives." These are the words of Carmel Quinn, whose brother, John Laverty, was murdered in 1971. It is important to put on the Dáil record just how horrific that atrocity was. Between 9 and 11 August 1971, more than 600 soldiers entered the Ballymurphy area of west...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Chief Government Information Officer (Revised) (2 Mar 2021)

Mairead Farrell: ...€5 million, involved buying 250 units. After a number of those units failed tests, all 250 units were quarantined. Can the Minister confirm whether they are still in quarantine or have been destroyed, and whether the taxpayer has received a refund regarding this? In a second transaction, 300 ventilators were bought from Roqu Media International. That company specialised in...