Results 21-40 of 66 for destroyed speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...all of them and we need solutions in all cases. In my county of Donegal, thousands of families have been absolutely devastated. I have been in homes where people have been in tears. They are destroyed because their family homes, their wee castles to which they look for security, is literally crumbling around them. People have had to move out of their homes and we are talking about...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Nov 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...in Donegal have been required to provide a 10% contribution. If this involves a complete rebuild, 10% will be a significant amount for families who are paying mortgages on homes that have been destroyed by this blight in our county. The Mica Action Group has done some excellent work. It has engaged with financial institutions and has received a fairly positive response to its call for...

Seanad: Inquiry into the Death of Shane O'Farrell: Statements (20 Nov 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ..., the Minister for Justice and Equality will appreciate that some meetings with families that have been through unspeakable grief are harrowing. My memory of that meeting is that the family had been destroyed by tragedy. Shane's mother, Lucia, had a framed picture of her beloved son and she had so many questions. It has been a long and hard road to get to the process now under way with...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jul 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...estate was purchased by Glenmore Estate in 2017 and earlier this year The Irish Timesreported that it was estimated that hundreds of trees including ash, sycamore, birch, whitebeam and willow, had been destroyed and miles of hedgerows torn out on this farm. The matter has been raised with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and with the National Parks and Wildlife Service....

Seanad: EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (3 Jul 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Minister will know, the Amazon rainforest represents half of the world's remaining rainforest. Last month, an area of 739 km2 was destroyed which equates to two football pitches every minutes. She is doing commerce with one of the most right-wing political leaders in the world, President Bolsonaro.

Seanad: EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (3 Jul 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: President Bolsonaro is a climate change denier and is up to his neck with the ranchers and people who are destroying the rainforest whom he funds and backs. He has made no secret of the fact that this is his agenda. Farmers in Donegal and any other county in this State live up to very onerous environmental legislation and regulations and inspectors check farms of all sizes. Farmers rely on...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...wrong. We need to defend the interests of Irish fishermen around our coast. We also need to defend our natural resources. We have allowed mussel seed beds, our natural precious resource, to be destroyed and lost. We need to reinstate those in a sensible way. I implore the Leader and those on the Government side to listen to the real concerns of fishermen and, in the next few weeks,...

Seanad: Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Mar 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...of a certain size. We need our fisheries managed in a responsible way. I am sad to say this, but the Minister's departmental officials and his predecessors allowed our mussel fishery to be destroyed. They allowed a natural resource of the Irish people to be destroyed. That led to the Supreme Court decision and those Irish fishermen were forced to go the whole way to the Supreme Court...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018: Discussion (19 Feb 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...office in 2012. Obviously that is not enough. Hindsight is 20-20 vision but the ODCE was given major responsibilities on behalf of the people of the State. The lives of many people were utterly destroyed in many ways by the economic collapse and the office carried responsibility for holding people to account, if necessary and if it found that to be the case. One of the matters the body...

Seanad: Post Office Closures: Motion (19 Sep 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...and that it had not planned for this to happen. That is utter nonsense. As we know, the population in rural areas grew significantly throughout the short-lived period of economic boom, which was eventually destroyed by an over-reliance on developers and crazy lending policies. Fianna Fáil stood idly by while its policies, including its support for the postal services directive at...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Apr 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...days, the Irish Examinercarried a feature on some of the most enjoyable walks in Ireland. Second on their list was Swan Park, Buncrana, County Donegal. Eight months ago, that riverside park was destroyed by the floods in the Inishowen Peninsula. I have raised this repeatedly in this room. This is a major tourism amenity in the second largest town in Donegal. I do not know anywhere in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...being negotiated, which will bring in huge amounts of beef and other products that do not have anywhere near the same environmental standards as such products from Ireland from countries that are destroying their forestry and rainforest left, right and centre. That dichotomy must be addressed and I would like to hear the witnesses' views in that regard. These are loaded questions and the...

Seanad: Flooding: Statements (21 Feb 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...20 jobs. The business is very popular locally so we need to get it opened again. Some homes are under threat so there is a bit of work involved. There is a riverside walk in Carndonagh that was destroyed and a bridge linking a local council estate to other amenities that must be looked at. Homes adjacent to the rivers in Carndonagh were under threat and businesses were seriously...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have raised the issue of one of the major community and tourism amenities in the Inishowen Peninsula, Swan Park, which was destroyed six months ago in last August's floods. I cannot imagine where else in the State a major amenity such as a riverside park would be permitted to remain closed for six months without a sign of Government funding. What adds to my anger is that a meeting was...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: One of the most important community and tourism amenities in the Inishowen Peninsula, Swan Park, was destroyed by the floods last August. The riverside park has been closed for six months. I have raised the issue time and again in this Chamber. I have written and spoken to Ministers, but as of today, there is no sign of Government funding. I do not accept that the closure of a park which...

Seanad: Agricultural Issues: Statements (24 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: .... We have to be honest about the ideology that has led us to this situation. The European dimension was mentioned. We have allowed the big agrifood businesses, meat factories, supermarkets and multiples to destroy the family farm model both in Ireland and elsewhere. What does this mean for places such as County Donegal, from where I come. It means that rural communities with their wee...

Seanad: Agricultural Issues: Statements (24 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We need a fair price for farmers. We need to confront the big business market interests that are destroying family farms. We need honesty on these issues and to make sure the CAP will look to reverse the horrendous trend of driving young and small farmers from the land and moving towards corporations. We have talked about the issue for years. We action and delivery.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...upon agriculture and ruminant animals, such as cattle and sheep, which produce very high levels of methane emissions into the environment. That is the nature of our economy. If people want to destroy rural Ireland, then they should go for it if that is their view. It is not going to happen in this committee. Rural Ireland has developed its economy on the basis of agriculture. I...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Flood Damage (8 Nov 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...in the community, where families and the elderly go walking and where partnerships with schools, environmental groups and Tidy Towns groups are developed based on this amenity, has been utterly destroyed? Just up the road there are major sporting amenities which have been utterly destroyed, including the destruction of a number of pitches at Cockhill Celtic. It is two months since the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Flood Damage (8 Nov 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...to relay to the Minister the request I have made in support of the issue I have raised. There is frustration because the unprecedented levels of water that accompanied this remarkable act of God destroyed the amenities I have mentioned. On that basis, we are asking the Government to intervene. This should not be treated as a regular application for funding. The extraordinary events of...