Results 1-18 of 18 for destroyed speaker:Erin McGreehan

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2024)

Erin McGreehan: ...that women's healthcare actually should exist, I hope we will see great advances in care. To my fellow sufferers of endometriosis, I say there is hope and they are not unheard.It can be a soul-destroying condition. It travels with a person and affects their mental health. Sufferers do not know when they are going to be in agony. If someone is in agony, most days she will have to walk...

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Erin McGreehan: ...take a tiny grain of question and go with it and run down that rabbit hole as quickly as you possibly can to get those Twitter likes and get the videos up there as quickly as possible. It is soul-destroying. You rightly said the referendum is not about the woman's place in the home. We have to look at what the wording is. It is about a woman not neglecting her duties in the home....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Safeguarding: Safeguarding Ireland (21 Feb 2024)

Erin McGreehan: It is soul-destroying, as I am sure the witnesses will agree. Hopefully, they did not think I was suggesting that Safeguarding Ireland was the HSE or was established by the HSE. The HSE and HIQA are potentially breaking the law here, and we are all sitting with it. I find that very depressing and concerning given that we have legislation, although we need more legislation and I am one of...

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2024: Motion (15 Feb 2024)

Erin McGreehan: ...economies? Will the Department ask shop owners or bistro and cafe owners how the closing of the hotel will impact ancillary businesses? The Four Seasons hotel in Carlingford had to close because it was destroyed during the floods. This had a huge impact in Carlingford given that weddings and events were gone as were the people who just came on holiday and would eat out in the surrounding...

Seanad: Human Rights in China: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Erin McGreehan: ...use of coerced testimony in cases involving the national security law; the repression of independent media and democratic activists in Hong Kong; the ongoing efforts of the Chinese Communist Party to destroy the culture of the people of Tibet, and the abuse of the rights of Tibetans; the genocide being perpetuated against the Uyghur people; and the repression of religious minorities,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Agriculture Supports (22 Jan 2024)

Erin McGreehan: ...floods have left a trail of destruction. If the Minister of State looks on TV or any of my social media posts she will see the devastation it has caused. Crops and fodder have been absolutely destroyed. Valuable infrastructure such as fields and fences have been damaged and completely changed. This catastrophe has left many farmers not knowing how to rebuild their lives or their...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Agriculture Supports (22 Jan 2024)

Erin McGreehan: ...is precedent for schemes, such as in Inishowen. That was good enough for Charlie back in 2017. Inishowen received funding for pretty much the exact same thing that has happened. Their fences were destroyed. Their fodder was destroyed, as was their fertiliser, and their fields were absolutely ruined. Do not tell me that there is no precedent for it. Some of that €9.3 million...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Erin McGreehan: ...permission for the fire brigade to pump it out and give people access. Thankfully, we have schemes for enterprises and homes, but we have no scheme for the agricultural enterprises that have been destroyed. We have fields, fences and fodder destroyed and rivers redirected and ruined, as well as many access roads destroyed across north Louth. We need support for the agricultural...

Seanad: Location of Victims' Remains: Motion (22 Mar 2023)

Erin McGreehan: ...with a really heavy heart that we gather to remember the people who are known as "the disappeared". These were individuals who were murdered during the Troubles, and their bodies were hidden and destroyed so that their families could not properly mourn their loss, with the goal being to inflict more pain, and more control over the families and communities. I am personally honoured to be...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Jun 2022)

Erin McGreehan: ...alongside my shame, anger and tears for an Ireland that let women just like me down. It robbed them of their children, their futures, their dignity, their money and their Ireland. It destroys the true republican ideals that I grew up with and my understanding that men, women and children were treated equally. Shame on everyone. Shame on our church, our State, our institutions, our...

Seanad: Humanitarian Support for Ukrainian Refugees: Statements (23 Mar 2022)

Erin McGreehan: ...It highlights how vulnerable our world is, how vulnerable our democracy is and how vulnerable our populations are to manipulation by parties and organisations who are anti-State mules, who want to destroy and who obstruct continuously. We must always stand against those who support dictators, make excuses for authoritarian regimes, do not abide by the rule of law, do not recognise...

Seanad: International Women's Day 2022: Statements (9 Mar 2022)

Erin McGreehan: ...and are the backbone of those communities who bring things back to some sort of normal. As we stand here, absolutely everything to me these days seems so small. We see an entire country being destroyed by a man who has simply no regard for any life or any rule of law but his own. He has no regard for decency or for the utter destruction and pain he is inflicting on people. Look at...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jan 2022)

Erin McGreehan: ...who loved, Ashling Murphy, and indeed to all the women who we have lost and whose lives have been stolen in this country and across the world. We know lives have been taken, lives have been destroyed and lives have been threatened continuously in this country. We speak about it in this Chamber quite often. I and other colleagues have been raising gender abuse, abuse, sexual harassment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (21 Oct 2021)

Erin McGreehan: ...it. I do not have questions, but I will make a few points following on from the testimonies and conversations. This is a struggle. People with disabilities are constantly fighting. It is soul destroying. That is what the services are doing to them and their families. I ask the Chairman for some action to come from today's meeting, particularly in respect of PA services. Could we...

Seanad: Future of Gambling Regulation: Statements (23 Apr 2021)

Erin McGreehan: ...secret and goes on behind closed doors. It is usually only uncovered when it is a situation of last resort and homes and possibly lives are lost and families are ruined. I have seen lives being destroyed by gambling. It is incredible to see a family just torn apart. I hope this is the start of stopping that from happening. I have always advocated prevention being better than a cure....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The EU and Irish Unity - Planning and Preparing for Constitutional Change in Ireland: Discussion (16 Feb 2021)

Erin McGreehan: ...together and battle against the winds and the elements, or we can fall down like Humpty Dumpty and go back 30 years to where we were. We do not want to go back. Too many lives have been lost and destroyed. Too much trust has been broken again and again to go back to those things. The report is very interesting but the discussion about it being very like East and West Germany being put...

Seanad: Inquiry into the Murder of Mr. Patrick Finucane: Motion (25 Nov 2020)

Erin McGreehan: ...motion. I think of the Finucane family sitting at their dinner table and such normality of a Sunday evening and then to have their father and husband brutally and viciously murdered, their lives destroyed and their futures changed forever. For 30 years, Geraldine Finucane and her family have campaigned tirelessly, with great dignity and incredible determination. How many times do...