Results 1,801-1,820 of 3,337 for speaker:Patrick Costello

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: No, I am all right.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: I wish to make similar points. The Chief Justice, who has been a strong advocate for access to justice, has made the point that access is not just about courtrooms and judges; there are plenty of other things that block people's ability to access justice. A recent report by the Department of Justice report, for which I could not find a date, mentioned per capitaspending on legal aid as...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: Yes.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: I thank the Chair and the committee for indulging my need to leave to attend the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (23 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the delivery of the Chapelizod bus stop on the N4 Bridge over Chapelizod Hill. [58308/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: The energy charter treaty has proved itself to be a block to meaningful climate action. Country after country has either threatened to pull out or has pulled out of it. It is time Ireland did the same. Will the Government pull out of the energy charter treaty?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Tourism Industry (22 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 154. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will expand the visa eligibility criteria to non-EU nationals to fill hospitality and tourism vacancies, given the shortage in staff for the sector. [57533/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (22 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding programme for the SEAI community grants in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57899/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Appointments Service (22 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 250. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that the Public Appointments Service continues to advertise posts that include a requirement that the applicant must be a non-EEA citizen who is a spouse or child of an EEA or Swiss citizen and have a stamp 4 visa, given that there is a requirement under law not to discriminate on the civil status ground, and that many...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (22 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: 262. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will advocate for the expansion of the visa eligibility criteria to non-EU nationals to fill hospitality and tourism vacancies, given the shortage in staff for the sector. [57532/22]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Refugee Accommodation Crisis: Engagement with Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (22 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: The Minister is in an unfortunate position in that many of the questions I wanted to ask have been answered, so he will have to listen to me make some general comments instead.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Refugee Accommodation Crisis: Engagement with Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (22 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: No, not for the first time. This is the advantage of contributing towards the end of the meeting; whether it is true or not, one can always claim one's questions have been answered. I echo the concerns other members raised about the genuine crisis we face and problems here that are being exploited, in a deliberate way, by an aggressive, dangerous far-right element. In recent months, there...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Select Committee (15 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: Apologies have been received from Deputy Ward. I welcome the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, and his officials to the meeting. Witnesses and members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: Apologies, but it appears there is a vote in the Chamber. We will suspend because we will all have to go for a vote. Can the Deputy can get it in within the two or three minutes before we are all due down there?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: Very briefly. Somebody-----

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: I will suspend the meeting now until after the vote is finished in the main Chamber. We will come back in on Deputy Cairns and then give the Minister another response.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: We were discussing amendment No. 1. Deputy Cairns had the floor.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: Briefly, Deputy Cairns, and then I will bring the Minister back in.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: Please, Deputy. Let the Minister answer.