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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Apprenticeship Landscape in Ireland: Institute of Physics (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Bruton: Does Ms Longmuir want to comment on the curriculum and assessment? We put back classroom-based assessment again because of the potential influence of artificial intelligence. I am not sure that it destroys classroom-based assessments, but can we do more?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Discussion (11 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Dessie Ellis: ...been severely curtailed for children with disabilities, especially those who have been internally displaced. Many institutions have also ended up in occupied territories and have been damaged or destroyed. How is development aid being used to support these people in these circumstances? The witnesses might give us some idea. The European disabilities fund has campaigned for a ban on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Colm Brophy: .... I saw, on a number of occasions, when I had the privilege of working in the Department, the work we do in our aid programme and the work we have pioneered. Indeed, some of that work has been destroyed by Israeli military actions from time to time. When people - and it is people are talking about - are at risk of one of the most catastrophic crises if there is a ground invasion, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (11 Oct 2023)

Johnny Mythen: 182. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider a lime spreading extension to allow lime to be bought and spread up to March 2024 instead of destroying grassland by driving over saturated fields with heavy machinery, taking into account the exceptional wet summer and soil saturation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44284/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023) See 4 other results from this debate

...was seen by many women, in particular, as not recognising their own independent need. The requirement for reassessment if there is any shift at all in the family income was seen as particularly soul-destroying. The amount of form-filling and repeated requests for the same information from different aspects of the State all added stress to the already-stressed lives of carers who are...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Róisín Shortall: ...and causal negative impact on children, especially when it starts early in childhood and persists throughout. It affects everything, including emotional development, educational attainment, mental health, physical well-being, career opportunities and income in later life. It destroys and limits lives. The Government had an opportunity to tackle that and ultimately eradicate it, but it...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Regina Doherty: ...yes - but is it justifiable to take out an entire apartment block because one apartment is inhabited by some guy from Hamas? We will never encourage the local population to turn against Hamas if we start destroying everything in the place. It is utterly inhuman to cut off fuel, water and food. I do not care how bad things are. Cutting off the basics for life is totally unacceptable. I...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (10 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Connolly: ...Israel but illegally occupied; if this rejection by Israel significantly reduced his capacity to see and experience the effects of the illegal occupation in areas where schools have recently been destroyed and residents have been forced to flee because of settler attacks; if he regards this denial of access as a further rebuff to the international community by Israel; and if he will make a...

Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Cormac Devlin: ...of parliamentarians from across Europe. I witnessed the devastation and human suffering wrought on Kiev and other cities by Russia. Homes, schools, crèches, businesses and industries were all targeted and destroyed during the Russian invasion. We have seen recently Russian elites arguing for an acceleration of this policy of destruction with the aim of destroying the people of...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: ...later and people going off and doing whatever they like. The campus at St. Brendan's is a model of how services can be run. The staff are brilliant. Everybody loves the place. Then somebody comes along and decides to destroy it. I just cannot understand how we could do this. We do not know who made the decision. The problem is that we do not have accountability. We will work with...

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...here. If 51% had no confidence, she would not be here. However, 98.7% of the members of An Garda Síochána have no confidence in Commissioner Harris and he is still here. He has single-handedly destroyed the Garda service in Ireland. Gardaí are no longer counting the years to retirement; they are counting the days and hours. Those who want to join the force are saying if...

Seanad: Access to Third Level Places and Student Accommodation: Statements (4 Oct 2023)

Eugene Murphy: ...appeal to students not to go down that road and I appeal to parents, lecturers and us as politicians not to let them fall into this trap. It can ruin their whole lives, give them a criminal conviction and destroy their ability to get on in life. It has been a problem in England and left many young people there with a criminal record, although there has been a move by the justice...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts (3 Oct 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...right to life, something the Azerbaijani Government has utterly failed to do. We have moved beyond ethnic cleansing. Once again we are moving into the realm of genocide. It is not only about destroying the people who are there but destroying any memory that they were even there to begin with. What will we do to uphold international law? We have two rulings, which is a rarity in...

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2023)

Michael Collins: ...providers are outside the Dáil here, every Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Deputy is running around patting their backs. What delivery has the Government given them? It has given them nothing and has destroyed their livelihoods. They are hanging on the edge and they have told us this. They are not making up this story. They do not want to be on strike for three days. They want to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: There is hardly a greater avoidable tragedy in Irish society than child poverty. It destroys and limits lives. It affects everything, including emotional development, educational attainment, mental health, physical well-being, career opportunities and income in later life. Poverty does not just contribute to bad outcomes. It has a direct and negative causal impact on children,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Forestry Sector (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Heydon: ...that is gone the following year and farmers can get over it. However, to have stood in farmers' land and looked out at crops of ash that have been dying for years and are effectively dead, is soul-destroying. It affects farmers' mental health as well as financially. It has a really significant impact. I completely concur with the sentiment that the Deputy has outlined in terms of how...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (28 Sep 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...settler violence, demolitions and the forced transfer of Palestinian populations. What we are witnessing is Israel deliberately inflicting on Palestinians actions and conditions of life designed to destroy them within the West Bank. They are designed to destroy Palestinian communities in the West Bank. We need to call these out. To call them negative trends or say they are not giving...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Mental Health Services: Discussion (28 Sep 2023)

...of this. The person will already, for decades, have been telling himself or herself that this happened to him or her as a child or he or she did this as a teenager, and it will have absolutely destroyed his or her sense of self and self-worth. It is heartbreaking to see.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (28 Sep 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...package agreed for Ukraine in 2023. This package has allowed Ukraine to continue to pay wages and pensions, maintain essential public services, ensure macroeconomic stability and restore critical infrastructure destroyed by Russia. In June, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a €50 billion package aimed at covering immediate reconstruction costs and...