Results 1-20 of 47 for destroyed speaker:Dara Calleary

Seanad: Digital Services Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Feb 2024)

Dara Calleary: ...able to use the provisions of the digital services regulation on the night of the Dublin riots to alert online providers to stuff that appeared on their platforms encouraging people to come and destroy people's property and potentially people's lives. That is of huge benefit and if it can be used in terms of public security and public protection in that manner in the way that it was used...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Parks (23 Sep 2021)

Dara Calleary: ...land was added, it was identified for rewilding. Experts proved at that time that the direct participation of local communities would be essential to rewilding. With this decision, the NPWS is destroying participation by communities. It needs to be stopped now.

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Sep 2021)

Dara Calleary: ...not to wait until the legislation is passed but to engage now in an information campaign on what this will mean for communities. I come from a county where communities and community spirit were destroyed because of the bad handling of an energy project. I do not want to see any community in my county or anywhere else go through that again. There needs to be greater engagement with...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2021)

Dara Calleary: ...comes up to direct people to reputable sources on Covid. A similar approach should be taken by social media companies when it comes to discussions on climate change because there is too much misinformation that is destroying the discussion and moving people’s focus away from the actual key problem and down rabbit holes that have no bearing on the issue at stake. The social media...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (17 Nov 2020)

Dara Calleary: Five years ago last weekend, the town of Crossmolina suffered a major flooding event. We were told it was a one in 100 year event. Three weeks later, the town was utterly destroyed in the Storm Desmond flooding event. I know a great deal of work has been done on the flood scheme since then but I want to know where it is at and when we can give certainty to the people of Crossmolina.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Aviation Industry (20 Oct 2020)

Dara Calleary: ...The Minister of State must accept, however, that this year it is not fit for purpose in a Covid-19 environment. Our regional airports do not have any non-core income this year. Their car parking and retail income is destroyed and, unfortunately, the employment they give to hundreds of families across County Mayo has been absolutely hammered this year. Staff who were laid off completely...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2019)

Dara Calleary: ...because they have been thrown to the wolves. So many people are on team Ireland in terms of climate but they see the Government acquiescing to a deal that rewards climate change deniers, those who destroy rainforests and people who adhere to low standards. I agree that team Ireland has the highest possible standards. Our beef, our poultry and our pigmeat are world class because of...

Pensions (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: ...no longer even have that guarantee. The worst possible thing has been happening. People have not been given the chance to put the pot back together. This is the pot that they did nothing to destroy. People in their 60s are being told that nothing is available or that what is available is only minimal. They do not have the chance to put the pot back together, even though they did not...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Flood Risk Management (19 Oct 2016)

Dara Calleary: ...throughout the country are in fear of flooding. Even though it is the middle of October and an autumnal day today, many communities face the prospect of their houses and businesses being destroyed once again, in some cases for the second or third time in less than 12 months. What exactly has been done to date? How much money has been committed to local authorities and has been drawn...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Dara Calleary: ...FEMPI. If we decide to take FEMPI out overnight, the budgets available for front-line services, for the capital programme and to ensure we have a recovery and an economy that is going somewhere will be absolutely destroyed. We will not have an economic recovery that allows us to realise this country's potential. That does not mean we should long-finger taking FEMPI out. It should go...

Insurance Costs: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Dara Calleary: ...I refer to the petrol stretching that occurred in August 2014 whereby contaminated petrol entered the system. It was bought from reputable retailers who did not know they had it by motorists whose cars were destroyed as a result. In many households, both cars were destroyed. Such cars in rural areas are not luxuries but are needed to live. Serious damage was done in respect of...

Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Dec 2015)

Dara Calleary: ...rented premises or public houses. These businesses are finding it impossible to obtain insurance. Retail businesses that had peak stock in the first weekend in December saw that stock completely destroyed. Stock, including food, valued at hundreds of thousands of euro had to be destroyed on Sunday and yesterday because of the damage. I endorse what Deputy Naughten said. Not enough...

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: ...motion is to provide a clear legal entitlement to workers to full-time work. Our experience of labour law is that this is too vague a statement. It could be abused by employers or workers who may try to destroy the flexibility of a good company or a good relationship. We are seeking to tighten up on the wording in the motion by providing for a clear legal entitlement for workers to be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Availability (12 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: ...to, which is one of the main players, is actively putting loans on the market. People need protection. The Minister and the Government are sleepwalking while many small businesses are being destroyed by legacy debt. They are willing to face up to it and enter into a package. The two pillar banks are putting facilities in place, but while we await a solution exactly as the Minister...

Child Care: Motion [Private Members] (10 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: ...the number of informal child care networks around the country, which are important in themselves. Parents make use of family and friends for child care support. This aspect needs to be formalised without destroying these arrangements, which make up for the shortage of places. The shortage would be much worse if this informal system was taken away. I refer to professional carers....

Other Questions: Retail Sector (25 Nov 2014)

Dara Calleary: ...the country? I would encourage the Minister of State, Deputy Nash, when he next visits Waterford to meet with the retail groups there in regard to what rates revaluation is doing to them. It is destroying those who have invested in their properties.

Topical Issue Debate: Motor Fuel Fraud (18 Nov 2014)

Dara Calleary: ...Smith, parts of Cavan. Last June and July, people bought petrol in good faith from legitimate retailers. Serious problems arose with their cars and, in many cases, their engines have been destroyed and the cars rendered unusable. These are people who do not have money to buy new cars and do not have money to make the necessary repairs. These people have spent their lives abiding by...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Severe Weather Events Response (4 Nov 2014)

Dara Calleary: 1144. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on whether it was fair not to establish a compensation scheme for island residents who had their boats destroyed in last January's unprecedented storms and poor weather conditions; her further views that for some island residents these boats are their only mode of transport; if she will instruct officials in his...

Water Services (Exempt Charges) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Sep 2014)

Dara Calleary: ...a number of rights. The goods must be of merchantable quality and fit for purpose. The type of black-brown water about which Deputy Michael McGrath spoke, which we have all seen and know about, which destroys machinery and equipment, could not be described as being of merchantable quality or fit for purpose. Therefore, as the goods are not fit for purpose and do not meet the standard of...

Topical Issue Debate: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (10 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: ...-party group working with Justice for the Forgotten in this area and we agreed to submit this Topical Issue today to mark that anniversary. It is also 40 years since 34 families had their lives destroyed. A lifetime later, they continue to live with the physical legacy as well as the psychological side of it. It is unprecedented when one considers the huge improvement in relations in...