Results 1-20 of 20 for destroyed speaker:Jim O'Callaghan

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...crime extends far beyond financial loss. It inflicts profound social harm and erodes the fabric of our communities. Everyone in this House will be aware of the devastation that drug addiction has on young people. It destroys their lives. We really need to repeat that consistently so that people are aware that if they start experimenting with drugs, there is a serious threat that this...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...out with the intention of "seriously intimidating a population", "unduly compelling a government or an international organisation to perform or abstain from performing an act" or "seriously destabilising or destroying the fundamental political, constitutional, economic or social structures of a state or an international organisation". Therefore, sharing messages that glorify and provoke...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (3 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...along with other Member States will be required to process applications in 3 months for an accelerated decision. This will apply to, amongst others, people who have misled authorities such as by destroying identity documents.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (2 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...24/7 to assist airlines with any immigration queries. BMU and GNIB also have an ongoing intelligence-led programme of operations at the point of airplane disembarkment to detect passengers who destroyed documents inflight and to identify the point of embarkation of undocumented passengers. Last year the BMU have carried out over 7,300 doorstep operations at Dublin Airport; so far in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (1 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: ..., along with other Member States, will be required to process applications in three months for an accelerated decision. This will apply to, amongst others, people who have misled authorities, such as by destroying identity documents.

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (26 Jun 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...lawful authority, would constitute terrorist activity if intended to seriously intimidate a population, unduly compel a government or an international organisation to perform or abstain from performing an act, or seriously destabilise or destroy the fundamental political, constitutional, economic or social structures of a state or an international organisation. Section 9 is a standard...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...claiming international protection, as I have told the Deputy, people who arrive in any EU country without documentation are entitled to claim asylum. However, if they are discovered to have destroyed documentation, that is a criminal offence and people have been prosecuted for that offence under the Immigration Act. Our systems are getting more vigorous.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (7 May 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...such a weapon, an individual must prove ownership and be granted a firearms certificate prior to making their claim. Where possible and lawful, the weapons will be returned to owners/families of owners or destroyed, as appropriate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021 (28 May 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...they tragic and fatal for the individual who is the victim of the assault with a knife but they are also for the person who has carried the knife and who may never had intended to use it. That person will have their life destroyed due to participating in what generally is manslaughter as a result of a carrying of a knife on the night in question. I am fully aware there has to be an...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Dec 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...to ensure the law in Ireland could be brought up to date. What primarily motivated us was the fact that we had met many of those people who had suffered from gambling addictions and whose lives had been destroyed as a result of finding themselves in a situation with gambling whereby they had either stolen or borrowed money to support their dangerous habit. It is a significant achievement...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...biggest threat to this country's economy in the short and long terms is long-term youth unemployment. We are aware from other economies, our history and the history of other countries that it can destroy not only an economy but also a society. I welcome the fact that the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, has been reintroduced at the high level to ensure anyone who has lost a job...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Governor of the Central Bank (21 Oct 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: I appreciate that answer. I ask about youth unemployment, which can destroy an economy and a society. Currently, we have very high rates of youth unemployment. What measures does the Governor believe would be available to the Irish Government to try to tackle the scourge of youth unemployment that appears to be a consequence of the pandemic and the restrictions?

Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2019: First Stage (27 Jun 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...young men think it is appropriate, acceptable and, sometimes, necessary to carry a knife when going out. The message needs to get across that this is not correct. It is dangerous for them and for others and it can destroy lives, whether the life of a person stabbed with a knife or the life of a person who perpetrates such an act. Many perpetrators do not go out with a knife on the day...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Organised Crime (16 May 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...not just in Drogheda but throughout the country with young people being attracted to and taking drugs. We need to ensure that they are fully informed of the dangers of taking drugs, how drugs can destroy their lives and leave a shadow hanging over them for the rest of their lives. I do not think enough is being done in that respect to warn young people about the dangers of drugs. If we...

Third Interim Report of the Disclosures Tribunal: Statements (17 Oct 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...Mr. Justice Charleton, on page 33 of his report, says that it "was justifiable for the people of Ireland to suspect at the time of the setting up of this tribunal in early 2017 that the ostensible capacity to destroy members of An Garda Síochána exercised by Garda Headquarters extended even to using national social services for that end." I recall that in February 2017 there was...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: ..., it should be said that we have an extremely troubled and complicated relationship with alcohol in this country. The graveyards and hospitals of the country are full of people whose lives were destroyed by alcohol. It shows that we need to develop a more mature attitude to how we consume and our relationship with alcohol. The Bill will probably be helpful in developing a more mature...

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...to her. I want to outline to the Tánaiste Fianna Fáil's criticism of her. It is this. In May 2015, the Tánaiste was aware of the strategy of the Garda Commissioner to attack and to try to personally destroy the reputation of Sergeant Maurice McCabe. We do not say that the Tánaiste formulated that strategy, we do not say that she was part of the make-up of that...

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...; includes acting with an improper purpose personally or by influencing another person, whether-(a) by means of making a false or misleading statement, (b) by means of withholding, concealing, altering or destroying a document or other information, or (c) by other means; I believe the reference to "acting with an improper purpose" is too vague and that the Minister needs to look at it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Scrutiny of Parole Bill 2016: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...all. People do make mistakes and do terrible things. Considerable numbers of people are in prison because of things they do when they are drunk. We need to recognise that moments of madness can destroy many lives. The Deputy is right that we should not be throwing away the key. In this regard, we need to look to the rehabilitation process. I am glad to hear Deputy Wallace quoting the...