Results 1-20 of 28 for destroyed speaker:Lynn Boylan

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Boylan: ...detect an Apple AirTag. Is there training for the Garda on what to do if somebody contacts them to say they are being tracked by an AirTag and they cannot find it? If they do find it, are they being told to destroy it when, in fact, it could be evidence in a future case? This is an area we need to look at. I want a reassurance that it is on the agenda at the Department of Justice and...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: ...are our voices. Our lives depend on this." I am not the only one in saying that the feeling of powerlessness, frustration and hopelessness at the failure of the international community to act is soul destroying. That is why we have to keep talking and having these motions. It is important we follow up these words with those who have the ability to do so, with actions. It is right...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: ...the death of six-year-old Hind Rajab to Hamas. She spoke about the two paramedics who went to rescue a six-year-old child who called for help after she had just witnessed her entire family being destroyed by the IOF. The paramedics who went to rescue her were slaughtered with Hind. Nobody can defend that. We saw the Israeli ambassador on our TV screens trying to link it to Hamas. It...

Seanad: Ban on Dumping New Products Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...spent on unsold or returned products, such as reprocessing or rebranding, affects the profit margin and, therefore, for products with small profit margins or low value, it is more lucrative to destroy them than to resell or donate them. As I said, most people would be horrified by that practice, but the scale of it is enormous. Optoro, which is an online platform that helps retailers...

Seanad: Ban on Dumping New Products Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...as a stick to force that model to change and to force the overproduction of items to stop. If Burberry, Louis Vuitton or other designers want to maintain brand value and think it is appropriate to destroy items in order to do so, they need to start making fewer items rather than justify destroying them. As I have said, there is a distinction in what we have done. We have learned from...

Seanad: Ban on Dumping New Products Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...The Bill is a necessary step in the context of addressing this. The Bill states that producers, importers and distributors of new non-food products intended for sale but that remain unsold are forbidden from destroying or dumping such items. Instead, they are required to take proactive measures to reuse these products. One way to achieve this is by donating them to charities, NGOs,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Environmental Policy (29 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...the OPW actually broke the law numerous times and was never held to account. In another investigation which is particularly relevant to the Arterial Drainage Act, the Irish Wildlife Trust found that the OPW destroyed a kilometre of the Newport river in County Tipperary, a part of the lower River Shannon special area of conservation. Again, it faced no sanction whatsoever. There are...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: .... Sixty-three per cent of our bird populations are in decline, while 25% of them are in serious decline. Invasive species in this country are poorly managed and rhododendron and sika deer are destroying what is left of our native woodland. Killarney National Park should be the jewel in the crown of the national parks in this country, but instead rhododendron has been allowed to reinfest...

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...in the public interest, (b) curtailing the influence of fossil fuel lobbyists who have had for decades lobbied to deny science, and delay, weaken, and sabotage climate action - despite knowing their business heats the planet and destroys communities, and (c) mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and complying with its obligations under section 15 of the Climate and Low Carbon Development...

Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...for certain things and then suddenly it is too late. We need to know the Government is looking at what the future plan around electricity demand is and how we will reduce the overall demand. That is not about destroying the economy or anything like that, but we cannot keep growing demand exponentially.

Seanad: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...importance in places like Moore Street where only certain buildings in the old terrace are protected while others are not. This allows for the effective destruction of most of the terrace and therefore destroys its coherency and removes the site from its historic setting. A few lone buildings surrounded by a tasteless modern behemoth of a shopping centre would not do justice to that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...the jobs that it will create locally but, for me, it is a reminder of why we urgently need legislation to ban the deliberate dumping of new non-food products. In 2018, an investigation in Germany found that Amazon was destroying thousands of new and unused items in its warehouses and, despite the public outcry at the time and Amazon claiming it would do its best to resell and-or donate...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Usage (14 Sep 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...of shock and awe in regard to households. For anyone who needs reminding, "shock and awe" is defined as a strategy based on the use of overwhelming power to force or paralyse one's enemy and destroy his or her will. If that is the approach the Government will take, it does not suggest it has citizens' best interests at heart. If people are driven into energy poverty and further cuts in...

Seanad: Energy: Motion (14 Sep 2022)

Lynn Boylan: .... That is why a State storage facility is a much better approach, if we must have a storage facility at all. It also matters where the LNG comes from. If it is coming from fracked gas, it is destroying communities. If we believe we are entitled to drink fresh water and have a healthy environment to live in, then so are people in other communities. Buying in fracked gas means that we...

Seanad: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (7 Jul 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...' books. The storage of this stock incurs such a cost that it becomes cheaper to dispose of the goods than to continue to store them. We also see the business models of luxury brands, which prefer to destroy unsold merchandise as they do not wish to sacrifice an image of scarcity and exclusivity. The designer brand company Burberry burnt €38 million worth of stock in a single...

Seanad: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...who are eating items out of products that have PFAS linings; it is also about the manufacture of them. During my time in the European Parliament, there was an Italian community that was completely destroyed. Its water source was absolutely undrinkable and there were huge health implications for an entire village because they were manufacturing these chemicals there. I would like to hear...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...- just how do you f----s think Christians will react when, as a fair few are, Awakening to the bullshit. Keep caring about you're money, none of you can take it with you when God through Jesus destroys you Anti Christian TURNCOATS. There then followed, in another email from the same individual, "[do] you ever get the feeling people are watching [you] ... [you] Sick whore". That is what I...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...where a 20 m strip can be planted are not specified. Significant environmental sensitivities and legal requirements need to be considered in respect of planting by rivers, for example. Planting can damage riparian edges or destroy nesting holes for birds like kingfishers. It can destroy or disturb above ground resting places for otters, which are called couches and are heavily protected...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...the citizens' assembly debate but I would like to raise a number of issues that should feature in the biodiversity citizens' assembly, one of which is the role the State is playing in actively destroying habitats and undermining our wildlife laws. In the past week, we have had two separate reports outlining where the Office of Public Works, OPW, has breached animal welfare laws, one in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...on the back of the reply I received to a freedom of information request. It suggested that the Office of Public Works carried out works on Emo Court in Laois without the necessary derogation or licence, destroying a bat roost, before proceeding to try to cover it up and seek a licence for those works retrospectively. When the National Parks and Wildlife Service investigated the matter,...