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- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (28 Oct 2009) has video
Chris Ruane: We live in dangerous times. There are a number of threats and issues of global importance, such as global terrorism, global warming and the unresolved Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Is Britain's interest best served by a strong European alliance of sensible, mainstream parties, or an alliance of Islamophobes and climate and holocaust deniers like the one that lot over there on the official...
- Climate Change (18 Mar 2004)
Mr Chris Ruane: ...rivers? In January this year, our chief scientific adviser agreed with the Pentagon assessment, saying: "Climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today, more serious than the threat from terrorism." The total amount spent globally combating terrorism dwarfs the total amount spent globally monitoring climate change. I support the measures that our and other Governments...
- Option 5 Funding (Devon) (15 Oct 2002)
Mr Chris Ruane: ...The partnership is not effective, and it is having a devastating effect on my constituents, especially those in social housing. I would like to give some graphic details of how ordinary people are terrorised in their own homes, and left without any help or support. I give you the example of a young single mother in my constituency with a nine-year-old daughter, who lived in fear and terror...
- Orders of the Day — Children's Commissioner for Wales Bill (16 Jan 2001)
Mr Chris Ruane: ...lies in the north Wales child abuse inquiry, and Mr. Justice Waterhouse's recommendation that such a position should be created in Wales. Something good has come out of something evil. The reign of terror that raged in north Wales for 30 years came to an end. We should welcome the fact that we are to get a Children's Commissioner. Those who suffered I abuse and those who suffer the...
- Prayers: Safeguards for Children (17 Mar 2000)
Mr Chris Ruane: ...has got off lightly again in the report. People guilty of child abuse who were not named in the report are worried—probably terrified—about being named. But I ask them to remember the terror that they engendered in the young people in their care. I have spoken with people who were in care at Bryn Estyn and other schools, including some lads from the council estate where I was...