Results 21-40 of 47 for destroyed speaker:Eamon Ryan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jan 2019)

Eamon Ryan: ...Macra na Feirme recognises the importance of community, getting farmers working together in a parish, working collectively and having a rural community. Not only is the intensification model destroying the water, wrecking the soil and creating a system of indentured farming that is good for big business but not for the small Irish family farm, it is also failing to protect rural...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...attention is the Blackwater flood management near Bandon where, on a daily basis, we see trucks driving up and down rivers in the middle of the sensitive spawning season. The whole river has been destroyed. Why is the OPW doing flood management in a way that is destroying rivers? The Blackwater is not an unimportant river.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...a further sea level rise. Why is the OPW opposed to what seems to be a very sensible proposal for a tidal barrage in Cork to address the acute issue of flooding in Cork city centre, rather than destroying the character of Cork with its current plans for raising the city walls and destroying the central, most attractive part of the city centre? Why is the OPW objecting to the proposal and...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (3 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...or heather growth for a particular species, and there may be some advantage, that is not what is happening. We are burning land and then going back burning it again a few years later in a way that is destroying the environment. We are burning in environments where it fundamentally changes, distorts and destroys the environment and that will only get worse in an environment that is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (26 Jun 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...or take place over time. However, some day we will wake up and realise that all the other risks were minute compared to the risk of humanity inhabiting a planet where the natural world has been destroyed, frayed and torn apart. Biodiversity is connected to climate, given the loss of habitat due to climate change. Loss of biodiversity will give us an indicator as to how we are doing...

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...in County Donegal. Even earlier this month, at Easter, a farmer in the west - he is a good man - said that he was trying his best but that he could not put his cattle out because he knew they would destroy the field. He was running out of options. It is that personal tragedy that is real. We have to address this matter. The question is how we should do so. What do we do...

Fodder Shortage: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...really cleverly so that we do not pollute our land and our water. We should not make the same mistake as New Zealand, where a mad expansion in dairy and beef farming led to water quality being destroyed. New Zealand is now reversing its engines dramatically. We should learn from its mistake.

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...reality we face. Climate change is not the only reason to change our ways. Startling new evidence published in Naturemagazine last June indicated that the seismic activity that is being engaged in is destroying our natural habitat and having a real effect on the zooplankton that form the base of the food chain, as Deputy Clare Daly stated. The world has lost half its wildlife in the past...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Eamon Ryan: .... As I understand it, the best thing we did there revolved around our decision not to build a big fortification. We did not drive our trucks through local villages in the middle of the wet season, thereby destroying the roads used by local farmers. That marks the intelligence of the personnel we are proud to have serving in our armed forces. We bring these skills and strengths to...

Prohibition of Fossil Fuels (Keep it in the Ground) Bill 2017: First Stage (16 Nov 2017)

Eamon Ryan: ...protect our fisheries and other marine animal life, we need to stop that seismic activity because it interferes with the zooplankton life cycle. We need to protect our environment, not continue to destroy it. The Prohibition of Fossil Fuels (Keep it in the Ground) Bill 2017 would help that happen. The Bill will introduce the important definition of climate justice. People say that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Irish Business and Employers Confederation (19 Sep 2017)

Eamon Ryan: ...to protect us from what were then the excessive powers of business. Some see it as reactionary but I see it as quite progressive. If we just bow down to the needs of business, we could end up destroying our society as well as our economy in the long run because economy depends on society.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Records (8 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: I too raise the interests of future historians and economists. The Central Bank wrote to the Houses asking that we destroy or return all records relating to the banking inquiry. At the Committee on Procedure and Privileges, I expressed the importance that the material be kept somewhere, whether in the Central Bank or the National Archives, to guarantee that in the future when people are...

Other Questions: Wildlife Protection (7 Feb 2017)

Eamon Ryan: ...Communications, Climate Action and Environment are in fossil fuel scholarships rather than clean energy scholarships and that it is measuring nature so that those industries can go out and help to destroy nature. The Minister of State has still not answered the key question I have asked on three occasions. Will he answer it on the third time? On the basis of the ObSERVE programme, if...

European Council: Statements (25 Jan 2017)

Eamon Ryan: .... It copperfastened in my own mind - the Secretary General of the Arab League set it out in very clear terms - the roles of some other European countries. The invasion of Iraq left a country destroyed without any institutions and with a vacuum that was filled by the likes of ISIS. In Libya in recent years, French, British and American bombing had left the country similarly completely...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Care Costs (8 Nov 2016)

Eamon Ryan: ...as they did in the US. In response to the Minister's question on what we might do, I would take the evidence from Robert Putnam's latest book, Our Kids, and examine what the American model did. It destroyed social capital and created a deep divide in the country. We have to support parents on low incomes, in particular lone parents who lose out in a dual income trap society. However, we...

Syrian Conflict: Statements (20 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: ...and military development, the likelihood of Britain, America and elsewhere going to war in places such as Iraq to protect their oil interests is an underlying factor in what has destabilised and destroyed the country and people of Syria. It is the deepest tragedy. Although there are complex issues in Syria in terms of the civil war and the various factions, there is an underlying truth...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Eamon Ryan: ...It is, but we are now creating an environment in which we will not have a choice, because favouring one system over another leads us in the direction that Elizabeth Warren warned against. Her evidence indicates it damages and destroys middle class communities. People can have a different view on that. Let us have a debate and look at her argument in some detail but I happen to think she...

Energy Prices. (18 Jun 2009)

Eamon Ryan: ...in the medium to long term. That is not in the customer's interest or the country's interest. What we are doing is working. I do not think the Deputy opposite has an alternative that would not destroy the competitive process.

Broadcasting Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (2 Oct 2008)

Eamon Ryan: .... If a regulator's only choice is to revoke a licence or do nothing, it is important for all concerned to provide for alternative measures that give a clear signal but do not completely destroy the opportunity of a broadcaster to continue in business. Part 6 revises the mechanisms governing the award of contracts and provides for a new definition of "community broadcasting". It makes...

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (28 May 2008)

Eamon Ryan: ...for 5.75% in 2010 and 10% by 2020 have included the provision that any new fuels have at least a 35% emissions reduction and have to show that they come from sustainable sources which do not destroy natural habitats. Biofuel production and use will enhance security of supply and contribute to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to direct CO2 benefits, biofuels offer...