Results 1-15 of 15 for destroyed speaker:Réada Cronin

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...Israel but she also gave its grotesque actions Europe's "full support". Nowhere in Gaza is safe. Homes, hospitals and schools have been obliterated. Places of worship have been bombed and destroyed. Even refugee camps have been bombed. This systematic annihilation of the Palestinian people is happening before the eyes of the world, yet Europe's leaders dither in their condemnation of...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...Ambassador in Dublin and directly with his Israeli counterparts during visits... Does the Minister of State think that the approach we take on this is successful in disincentivising Israel from destroying Palestinian property?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: I know, but they not paying compensation when they are destroying things. We are giving grants to rebuild what they just seem to destroy. Why do we not look for compensation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Budget 2024, Official Development Assistance, COP28 and Ongoing Humanitarian Situations: Dóchas (21 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...? A large amount of carbon has been released by all of the bombs and rockets. It is horrendous. We have discussed climate change and rebuilding. A lot of carbon is in the concrete that has been destroyed. It is appalling. I am grateful to the witnesses for their energy and commitment to their work. Could they talk about aid being used as a fig leaf when a deliberate war is being...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...they have created. I have grave concerns, as do many of my colleagues, that some eejit of a young fella, riled up by the hard men with their incendiary talk of rape and burning people out of their homes, will destroy the lives of other people as well as his own. Our young, impressionable people, no matter how old they are or how tough they think they are, need protection from these...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...of need, how are you meant to improve on them for next year? This week, a constituent told me they are taking the legal route because they cannot wait any longer. Their child's future is being destroyed. Another constituent's little boy is losing the chance to speak. What is galling is that the State will be using their money - public funds - to defend the indefensible instead of...

Europe Day: Statements (10 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...my commiserations to those who lost their seats. It is an awful position to be in, particularly if they are working for constituents as that awful feeling that they have let them down can be soul destroying. It was unfortunate to lose the two Green MLAs but I know that Philip McGuigan in North Antrim will take up that baton. On the bright side, I have lost count of the number of...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...food strategy provided for in the Bill is essential. It is unconscionable that while half of our world is dumping food, most of the other half is starving. It is really hard to look at the famine that is destroying Yemen and to watch little babies' and children's arms being measured, with arms only as wide as our thumbs. While the starvation there starts with Yemen's people being...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: I want to raise the desperate situation of children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus, whose young bodies are being destroyed and mutilated while they are waiting for scoliosis surgery, which they could get in a timed, definite and planned capacity if the Government were to provide Cappagh hospital with the pitiful €5.1 million it needs to help them. That sum is chicken feed in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Reduction of Carbon Emissions of 51% by 2030: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...just to be on that land. Is there a realisation from the Government, the financial institutions and the farming lobbies to get away from the big buck of industrialised food production that is destroying Ireland's green reputation for the sake of the bigger buck? What do we need to make that leap of faith together? My final question is for Dr. Moran. All our guests have given us a great...

Pyrite and Mica Redress Issues: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...corners cut along with deals with the boom-is-getting-boomier devil. They say bad housing is designed and built by people who know they will never have to live in it. Dangerous housing, the soul destroying housing of mica and pyrite, was given to us by the State-wide housing culture of "Sure look, we will get away with it". And they did, with their shoddy materials, worse work and...

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

Réada Cronin: ...Ireland, a country that was occupied and knows the cosh of the coloniser. This week, Gaza is awash with anguish. There are reports that 60% of electricity lines are down. Water pipes have been destroyed by Israeli bombing and tens of thousands of people have no access to clean drinking water. A Médecins Sans Frontières clinic has been destroyed, Red Crescent operations are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Reduction of Carbon Emissions of 51% by 2030: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...was magnificent and powerful. We heard during the week about the return of the crane to Ireland after 300 years. I do not think people know that 63% of birds are at risk. Our left hand is destroying what our right hand is doing. To imagine a spring without birdsong would be horrendous. We have to get that message out. I would welcome comments on that.

Direct Provision: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...responsibility to take care of everybody. Certainly, this is a good pathway out of our current damaging and shameful direct provision system. A pathway is not enough, however, if it can be blown away and destroyed by the whims of selfish future governments. It is a good start, however. I say "Well done" to the Minister. Let us make sure, however, the detail and legislation and housing...

Impact of Covid-19 on Women for International Women’s Day: Statements (4 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...in this dangerous world of division and disinformation. Ireland is a tiny island where practically everyone knows everyone else. Excoriating each other as "deplorables", as people did in the US, would destroy our communities. We are too small an island to allow that to happen and, if we did, it would be democracy itself that would pay the price. Will we make the effort to reach out to...