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

Thomas Byrne: ...protected. Sadly this has not been in evidence in the actions of the parties to date. We have witnessed vast physical destruction in Gaza. Homes, hospitals and vital infrastructure have all been destroyed. This is having a horrifying effect on people, many of whom now have no home and no access to healthcare. Some 1.5 million people are now displaced and need significant support....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (19 Oct 2023)

Thomas Byrne: ...Absolutely no funding is available if there is not parity of esteem between men and women and similar access. That is the end of that. Things like being told not to use pitches because it would destroy the grass for the men, which one ladies player told me about, are over. We will not be funding facilities where that is the case. This message has got out loud and clear. On the...

Seanad: Teacher Supply and School Places: Statements (15 Feb 2023)

Thomas Byrne: .... That is an absolute guarantee that every child will be accommodated and we will certainly work towards that. There are a couple of other issues. While I appreciate what Senator Craughwell said, I reject this thing that education has been destroyed in Ireland. There definitely have been problems and issues but we actually have one of the best education systems in the world and I think...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Animal Welfare (6 Dec 2022)

Thomas Byrne: ...this in our parliamentary party meeting last week because we are not satisfied with the situation either. All our hearts were broken when we saw Alejandro Miszan suffer life-changing if not a life destroying injuries when he was attacked by a dog in Wexford. Our thoughts are with Alejandro and his family and friends following the horrific ordeal he endured. As the Senator noted, the...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (13 Jul 2022)

Thomas Byrne: ...say is there is a huge amount of work going on between the UN Secretary General and Turkey on this issue. That is key. The foundation of the problem is Russia doing what it is doing, including destroying ports. We need to keep reminding people of that. It requires a united response, which we have seen, by and large, in this House as to who is the real cause of all of this, including...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (13 Jul 2022)

Thomas Byrne: ...complain in the Dáil about the price of food, as is our right as democratic representatives, but this is how we get the prices down. It is very hard to connect the supermarket shelf to a port that is destroyed in Ukraine but there is a direct link between them at this time. To clarify, there are no sanctions on Russian food products.

Seanad: Situation in Ukraine: Motion (1 Jun 2022)

Thomas Byrne: ...to what he had seen, focusing on the town of Bucha. He described hundreds of family homes, shops and other civilian infrastructure blackened, burnt, looted, damaged and, in some cases, completely destroyed. He described family cars riddled with bullets, windshields smashed and bloodstains evident. He described standing at the edge of one of the mass graves while the work of carefully...

Seanad: Europe Day 2022: Statements (11 May 2022)

Thomas Byrne: ...of political parties, only Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael supported accession. Everyone else was against it. We were called sell-outs and were told that the Irish language and rural Ireland would be destroyed but the truth is that our membership has led to transformative change. I heard a Deputy in the other House complaining that the EU did not get to the regions or to the rural areas....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: European Court of Human Rights Judgments (19 Nov 2019)

Thomas Byrne: ...during education questions but when a man tells me he was raped on a daily basis by a lay principal and other survivors of abuse tell me similar, awful tragic stories which have left their lives destroyed, I must continue to raise this issue with the Minister. The stories I am being told are nothing short of horrific. The response of the State to the decision in the Louise O'Keeffe case...

Retention of Records Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Apr 2019)

Thomas Byrne: ...discussing the consequences of the Ryan report today. That report showed that a failure on the part of the church and the State led to the systematic institutional abuse of children, with lives destroyed, maligned or ended as a result. It is vital for future generations that the experience of those who suffered at the hands of those in positions of power is not lost. Long after the...

Shortage of Teachers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2018)

Thomas Byrne: ...in a recruitment drive to encourage young professionals to come home to teach in Ireland in order that we might show them how highly we value them as teachers. This is being utterly undermined by the Taoiseach, along with any of the plans the Minister may have boiling away in the back of the Department to encourage people to come home, although we have not seen much evidence of that. It...

Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)

Thomas Byrne: Your party colleagues had to stop you destroying the DEIS scheme.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)

Thomas Byrne: ...route but it must be put underground. Who would have thought the field of Tailteann, the area where the Tailteann Games took place - that famous celebration in ancient Ireland - would be utterly destroyed by what EirGrid is proposing? It is outrageous and disgraceful and the people of Meath will not accept it, in particular the people who own the land, who in effect are the caretakers of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)

Thomas Byrne: ...and a pylon and that between a pylon and an Element wind turbine it has to be 800 m, and 50 m from a person’s home. I regard the whooper swan habitat as extremely important and I do not want EirGrid to destroy it but can the witnesses explain the logic of setting a 400 m distance from a whooper swan’s home but only 50 m from a person’s home in the same area of County...

Seanad: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2013)

Thomas Byrne: ...about it to effect change. We have had multiple instances of regulatory capture over the years, most famously with the banks. They were all playing golf together as the banking system was destroyed because of regulatory capture. We have seen other regulators in the media discussing price rises and so on but they seem to be acting on behalf of the industry they are regulating. One does...

Seanad: Public Expenditure and Reform: Statements (8 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: ...The Government is not doing enough to reverse those sad economic trends; it is cutting capital expenditure and increasing current expenditure. I disagree with the pension levy because this measure destroys job creation. The Government should reverse the cuts to home insulation grants. The Slane bypass in my constituency would cost only a fraction of the cut in the capital spend the...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2012)

Thomas Byrne: ...Party has this consistent message, and the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, was at it today, of blaming Fianna Fáil. Does the Minister, Deputy Quinn, ever ask his junior Minister, Deputy Cannon, if he destroyed the economy when he was leader of the Progressive Democrats and in government with Fianna Fáil? It is about time that question was asked because it is constantly being asked of this...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2012)

Thomas Byrne: ...has this consistent message, and the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, was at it today, of blaming Fianna Fáil. Does the Minister, Deputy Quinn, ever ask his Minister of State, Deputy Cannon, if he destroyed the economy when he was leader of the Progressive Democrats and in government with Fianna Fáil? It is about time that question was asked because it is constantly being asked of this...

Seanad: Flood Relief (16 Nov 2011)

Thomas Byrne: ...coast on 24 October, of which I know the Minister is aware. There was a huge flood in the centre of the village in which a flood had not occurred in decades. A number of houses were completely destroyed and it was heart-rending to visit them, as people could no longer live in them. With all the publicity in Dublin, there was very little coverage of the hardship suffered by some of the...

Seanad: An Bille um an Tríochadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Fiosruithe Thithe an Oireachtais) 2011: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha / Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Houses of the Oireachtas Inquiries) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Sep 2011)

Thomas Byrne: ...can be good, and I fully believe we should have the right to summons people in here to speak to us. It is terrible when people refuse to come in here. However, we must be conscious that we could destroy the process ourselves if we do not have the right and fair procedures and if we trample on people's good names. We could ruin it for everybody and then there will be court cases, lawyers...