Results 1-7 of 7 for destroyed speaker:Steven Matthews

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...2:1 spend must be maintained. That has to be a priority. Companies like Irish Rail need that certainty in budgets and support from government policy for those projects. Stop-start policy changes destroy those long-term ambitions. I have three questions. One is on freight and another is on staff capacity. Our colleagues from bus services were in recently and talked about driver...

Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Report 2022: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...on the shelf and not take action. We need urgent action. We needed it 20 years ago but, to protect people's health, we need action and investment and measures to be put in place right now to stop us destroying a finite and valuable resource that is critical to human health.

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...environmental management in Dublin Institute of Technology more than 20 years ago. It detailed humans poisoning nature for their own gain and I thought how ludicrous it is that we would kill and destroy in attempts to produce more. It makes no sense. How do we convey to everyone how serious this is? How do we make this the issue that everything must revolve around? The life support...

An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)

Steven Matthews: ...transport links that are needed or to deliver renewable energy infrastructure, schools and employment opportunities. We will fail to address our climate challenge and fail future generations as we destroy our environment. The planning system is an essential step in the delivery of those objectives. The planning system needs to be trustworthy. The decisions from local authorities and An...

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)

Steven Matthews: ...on-site as it is and move the road, or change the building layout, or whatever it will be. Alternatively, it can be decided to preserve it by record, which means you just bury it, go through it, destroy it.

Dumping at Sea Act 1996 (Section 5(12)) (Commencement) Order 2021: Motion (11 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: ...It is a relic of a time when we drilled holes in the ground to suck out gas and oil to burn. We took so much of these fossil fuels from the ground and burned them over so many decades that we have destroyed our environment and destabilised our climate. In the 1970s, when we sought our oil and gas fields, we did not know of the damage. It was a different era with far less consideration...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Steven Matthews: ...to do tonight is the very opposite. We are here to protect this record. We need to give back a voice to those who were subjected to the horrors of the mother and baby homes, the lives that were destroyed and the lives of the survivors who were so badly damaged in so many ways that many of us will never be able to understand. I understand that the commission report is a comprehensive...