Results 1-20 of 30 for destroyed speaker:Ivana Bacik

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...policies which have resulted in the slaughter of so many children in Gaza, children like Hind Rajab. These Israeli Government policies are breaching humanitarian law, displacing people from their homes and destroying families and communities. By enabling the subsidising of businesses in occupied territories, Ireland is complicit and we know that complicity does not chime with the values...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...is not yet up to the challenge. Despite the fine aspirations, we see missed targets and serious delays in meeting the necessary reductions. All of us are doing our best on this but oil, gas, and other big corporates continue to damage and destroy our environment. Their business models are fuelling weather disasters and poisoning our air, land and water. Society is bearing the brunt of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...legislate his way out of this. How will the Government address whole-of-government failures on policing? Will it move to initiate an independent review into the failures which allowed a small group of people last week to destroy property, injure our police and terrorise our community? We must see accountability and know why those failures occurred.

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...of our heritage. As my colleague, Deputy Duncan Smith, said on Second Stage, we have a chequered history of heritage protection. I am thinking of sites such as Wood Quay, which was shamefully destroyed. I am thinking too of Iveagh Markets, close to my own area, on which issue I was glad to see the Minister of State's intervention. I am also thinking of Rathmines town hall about which...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2023)

Ivana Bacik: That was after the Minister's party destroyed the economy.

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...the medium of our national language, ár dteanga náisiúnta, which is so well enhanced and protected by TG4. We need to restate the crucial importance of the public service broadcaster and not allow this crisis to be used to shrink or destroy RTÉ. It must emerge stronger and better than before but to do so, many changes must take place. During the pandemic, we were all...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...people across the country, exacerbated by Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine and his escalation of the war in that country. Of course, there is also the climate crisis, the existential threat that destroyed towns and communities across Europe this summer and which threatens all of our existence. These emergencies demand bold leadership. I will start by discussing the matter at hand,...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...not have had that effect and could have ensured adequate redress for so many apartment owners. The Government's proposal symptomises its inability to deal effectively with the housing crisis that has paralysed the lives of so many people and in particular destroyed the hopes and aspirations of younger generations. On care, we in the Labour Party brought forward two proposals to give...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...close to home for young people in Ireland because they know, as we do, that this is about our children and grandchildren. We are already running through their carbon budgets, spending their resources, destroying their planet and moving in the wrong direction. Just last weekend we saw the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, confirm the extent to which Ireland's emissions are heading in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Action Plan (4 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...many deadlines. To coin a phrase, climate action delayed is climate action denied. We now know, with the increasingly urgent warnings about the scale and the speed at which biodiversity is being destroyed and at which the earth is heating up. Therefore, there is no time to waste. We will work constructively with the Minister of State from the Opposition to ensure we meet the targets....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fishing Industry (7 Oct 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...had responsibility for it reversed the statutory instrument in response to the concerns I and environmentalists raised with him about the impact of big boats coming in and sweeping the seabed and destroying biodiversity and marine life. What is happening in this instance is quite similar. I am asking that the practice provided for in the statutory instrument be halted. I am not...

Residential Tenancies (Tenants' Rights) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Sep 2021)

Ivana Bacik: .... Again, to speak about my constituent's experience and the survey carried out for the Labour Party, we have heard from renters who describe experiences renting in Dublin and elsewhere as soul-destroying and terrible. Just yesterday, another constituent told me of a direct experience of leases containing a condition that tenants must pay a professional cleaner to have their rental...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Statements (23 May 2018)

Ivana Bacik: ...buildings which are subsequently demolished by Israeli forces. The EU is funding infrastructure to support education and healthcare, for example, for the Palestinians which is then dismantled and destroyed by Israeli forces. It defies logic that the EU does not intervene in a more proactive manner. I support Senator Norris and others who have called for such intervention. The EU should...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (10 May 2018)

Ivana Bacik: .... I have always thought that was strong leverage within the EU for Ireland to take a position in defence of the funding that the EU has provided for structures that have since been dismantled or destroyed by Israeli authorities as part of the illegal settlement programme. I express my support and thank Mr. Barghouti for coming.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Syria: Discussion (1 Dec 2016)

Ivana Bacik: To destroy the opposition to the regime. That is what it has been doing.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2016)

Ivana Bacik: The House will be taking Committee Stage of the Heritage Bill today. Many of us have expressed opposition to section 8 and the provision which would allow the cutting, destroying and removal of hedgerows in August and burning in uplands in March. We have all received multiple e-mails on this and I hope we can see a way of resolving that issue on Committee Stage.

Seanad: Situation in Gaza and Ukraine: Statements (31 Jul 2014)

Ivana Bacik: ...and infrastructure. For a long time the European union has contributed significant funds to develop Palestinian infrastructure, as is appropriate. However, we have seen that infrastructure systematically destroyed by Israeli bombardment in the 2008-09 period and also in recent weeks. I believe we need to work more strongly within the EU to achieve this resolution. The Labour Party has...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

Ivana Bacik: It is ironic to hear Fianna Fáil present itself as champion of the public sector having imposed pay cuts when it was in government and after the failed policy of decentralisation which destroyed morale in large parts of the public sector. However, as I said in the House last week, I welcome the fact that Mr. Kieran Mulvey has been invited to bring the parties together to see if a...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: .... Senator Norris and others have spoken eloquently on this matter in the past week or so. I wish to express my great relief that the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, has ordered the HSE not to destroy the Guthrie card records, or newborn heel-prick blood samples, a matter that other Senators and I raised in this House in recent weeks. On the basis of data protection concerns, the HSE...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...agree with Senator Norris that it is most unfortunate that a data protection ruling has prevailed, resulting in these absolutely invaluable records on the health of children and future adults being destroyed. I am glad that the Minister, Deputy Reilly, has agreed to take up with the HSE the issue of whether parents have been sufficiently informed. I hope we will see an extension of the...