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Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Apr 2024)

...us to manage our day jobs. The three were held to account for every single decision they made and most importantly, they were known to the people of Westport. Since 2001, local government has been destroyed. It was murdered in 2014. At that time, county managers were being described as such. Then the name was changed to "chief executive officers". In my view, they should be called...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Seán Crowe: Like everyone else, I have met families and individuals and seen the impact gambling has had on their lives. I have seen families destroyed by it, marriages destroyed, job prospects destroyed and housing applications rejected. People who are applying to borrow money are not able to get a loan because lenders check to see whether a person gambles regularly. I accept there are problems. I...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael Lowry: ...One farmer was quoted recently as saying he was standing at the window looking out at the rain while holding yet another troubling bank statement in his hand. The mental toll that this prolonged and soul-destroying weather has taken on farmers is enormous. The sense of helplessness they feel is overwhelming. They are victims of something that is completely outside of their control....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

John McGuinness: ...the tribunals, but it applies to the Charleton tribunal in particular because of what happened during it. Will the papers for all those tribunals be stored? Will they be kept for reference? Are they destroyed or what happens to them? There are particular examples within the Charleton tribunal that point to back channels into and out of Government and so on, which I would love to see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

...take some information like that about the vehicle they are driving to be very serious and they would seek to have an immediate remedy carried out. As for the 3,200 vehicles that were ultimately destroyed, the vehicle would have been brought to a workshop and deemed an uneconomical repair where the vehicle was too old for the repair that was to be carried out, and that would be a decision...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: ...but we do need immediate action. This is going on since 2016. It has been years, on and off. The flooding now is at record levels. People out there are really worried. We have an SAC that is destroyed. Everything in it is dead. It is absolutely ruined. We need immediate and urgent intervention to save the homes that can be saved. For some, it is too late but for the rest and for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: ...more than 80 landowners, costing more than €50 million and counting. The cost to the people, businesses and homes is much more, emotionally as well. When that happens, your home or business is destroyed and everything you have is gone. Some people could not get insurance. Some were underinsured, which I ask the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, to look at. They were insured to a...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Mattie McGrath: ...not even go to the Garda conference. The Commissioner was not even asked, nor should he be. I do not blame them for that as they have no confidence in him. Will you stop the rot? Stop trying to destroy our very culture, our fabric, our being, and infiltrating our country and overrunning it with migrants from God knows where. Look after the people who need to be looked after and have...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Pippa Hackett: ...could see the countryside, and in doing so, Tony said, they cut down everything in sight: plum trees, crab trees, cherry trees and the hawthorn. Nature planted those fruit trees, he said, and man destroyed them.Unfortunately, Tony's account, while sad, is a reality we must own up to. By "we", I mean policymakers. For decades, we have been encouraging, training and incentivising farmers...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (23 Apr 2024)

Catherine Martin: ...funding from my Department in Cork County includes funding of €600,000 awarded to Cork County Council, towards rebuilding the of Briery Gap Theatre & Library, Macroom Co Cork after it was destroyed by fire. In 2014, the Department awarded a grant of €1.5m towards the West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen. Proposals for the development local arts centres are a matter...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)

..., we are told we are not good enough, we will never achieve anything, there is no belief in us and we should look at everybody that came before us. The internalisation of this experience is soul-destroying. Nobody talks enough about it, but society needs to hear this and hear it well because being treated like this is soul-destroying and breaks your character as a human. I will repeat...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Patrick Costello: ...a pension if climate change is going to eradicate society as we know it or if it is going to cause such disturbance that pension pots are essentially worthless because runaway climate change has destroyed the economy as well as destroying the planet and livelihoods. It is about investing in sustainable energy in a way that is not supporting the fossil fuel industry. I would argue it is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: ..., I have learned that advice from the Attorney General is now awaited. We need this advice now. I cannot find the words to express what it is to see people in their 80s and 90s watching their entire lives destroyed before their eyes. Homes have been abandoned and livelihoods have been absolutely destroyed. The community is on its knees. It is only because they are such strong, decent...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Gerard Craughwell: ...Forces having been commissioned into the State. It is absolutely diabolical, however, that within ten years most of them will have left the Defence Forces because of the 2013 pension, which has destroyed public service. The 2013 pension was brought in by civil servants who had well-heeled pensions themselves and were well looked after by the State. They destroyed public service in this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

...was flooded with emails from previously healthy people of all ages whose busy professional and family lives have been utterly devastated, and not just from the direct effects of the illness which destroyed their health almost overnight but also from the trauma of trying to access social, financial and, most important, medical supports and being met with misunderstanding, minimisation and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...not sure whether they have appeared before this committee on the issue, although they may have. We recognise that this is an ongoing issue, one that has not just affected workers, but hurt them and destroyed their livelihoods. People have had to retire from their jobs because of this. We all acknowledge that.

Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State (16 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: He has destroyed rural Ireland, farming and everything else and it is time he was moved out of there. The Taoiseach had an opportunity.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Ned O'Sullivan: ...terrible plight of the citizens of Gaza. We must remember that the initial act on 7 October was carried out by Hamas but was sanctioned and most likely inspired by Iran, which has also sworn to destroy Israel. We in Ireland sympathise with the suffering of the Palestinian people, but we now have to readjust our focus somewhat. There has been a change If we want global security and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Apr 2024)

Eugene Murphy: ...and so annoyed for them. We must enact emergency legislation to drop the level of water in that particular turlough. Everything is dead. The trees are dead. The birdlife is dead. The flood has destroyed everything good in the environment and that point is being missed. People are now leaving their homes because they have no option. It must be brought to an end.

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Eugene Murphy: ...present line? Obviously, infrastructure deteriorates. It is a concern I have. The more the infrastructure deteriorates with nothing on it, the more expensive it will be. Railway lines will be destroyed if they are not developed in some shape or form.