Results 1-20 of 38 for destroyed speaker:Roderic O'Gorman

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...of planting on peatlands, which we have spent years trying to restore and preserve, would be environmental madness. Aside from it being in breach of EU law and indeed of Irish policy, it would destroy an extremely delicate and complex habitat that can provide a large and effective part of Ireland's capacity to store carbon - all of this is in order to develop cheap, quickly grown timber....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...being allowed to indulge in a bit of Trump-lite, be anti-science and anti-climate, while at the same time purport to speak for the people? Instead of "Drill, baby, drill", it is "Dig, drain and destroy." Who is actually in charge of the policy here? If the Minister is not able to set that out, can she ask her colleague, the senior Minister for agriculture, and indeed the Minister of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (20 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...the real threats to our domestic biomethane industry is hydrotreated vegetable oil, HVO, being imported and used as a substitute. This is problematic because it is palm oil. We are seeing biodiversity destroyed to have these large plantations, which goes against biodiversity targets and is undermining domestic production. What will Ireland do to protect our domestic biomethane industry...

Seanad: Maternity Protection, Employment Equality and Preservation of Certain Records Bill 2024: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...come to life and are not covered by the Bill now can subsequently be covered. Amendment No. 11 places an obligation on any private holder of a record to preserve it and makes it an offence to destroy, mutilate, falsify or fail to maintain the relevant record or to export them from the State. It also provides that the Director of the National Archives may direct a person or body to...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...source who, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, knowingly in relation to a relevant record other than a relevant record certified in accordance with section 9(6)— (a) conceals, destroys, mutilates, or falsifies the relevant record, (b) fails to maintain the relevant record, or (c) removes the relevant record (where, on the coming into operation of this section, the...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...we voted to protect and allow access to the personal records of individuals - people who were adopted, were boarded out or were the subject of illegal birth registration. We made it an offence to destroy those personal identity documents and we gave people rights of access to them. What we are dealing with today is not the personal identity documents, but the wider institutional...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...institution", "relevant body", "information source" and "public interest". Amendment No. 10 provides that the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth may designate by order an institution, a relevant body or a relevant record. While the legislation aims to be as encompassing as possible, this section is included to ensure that any relevant institution, bodies...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...who assumed the role of parents to them, in the case of illegal birth registration.  It would place an obligation on any private holder of a relevant record to preserve it, making it an offence to destroy, mutilate, falsify, or fail to maintain relevant records, or to export them from the State.  The legislation also provides that the Director of the National Archives may...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (23 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...who assumed the role of parents to them, in the case of illegal birth registration.  It would place an obligation on any private holder of a relevant record to preserve it, making it an offence to destroy, mutilate, falsify, or fail to maintain relevant records, or to export them from the State.  The term “relevant record” is used to describe the records...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...on the site at the moment is a presence of security personnel. This is a necessary precaution to protect the site, following attacks at another site in Crooksling, which saw part of the buildings destroyed in a suspected arson attack.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Adoption Authority Of Ireland and Tusla, are undertaking work to provide replies to all other applicants under the scheme. In that legislation, we introduced a provision that makes it an offence to destroy records. That offence is now on the Statute Book. Prior to the commission's report, my Department took on an archivist to make public documents related to the institutions that are...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...protection regulation are that third party data should only be held as long as necessary. An extension of this period could be in breach of those regulations. There is an obligation on an employer to destroy a record. Amendment No. 27 includes in the Bill explicit provision that records related to domestic violence leave be held for three years. Amendments Nos. 25, 26 and 28 are...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...000 people who made applications under the legislation have had their queries answered. There was a key provision providing for preservation of relevant information and making it a criminal offence to destroy such information. The Government has, therefore, taken a first step on preserving information. The next key step is another part of the overall response to mother and baby home and...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...are that third party data should only be held for as long as necessary. Anything in extension of this period could be in breach of those regulations. There is an obligation on the employer to destroy records. This amendment is a technical amendment to include an explicit provision to provide that records relating to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, DSGBV, leave be held for...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...an amendment to take account of the position outlined by Senator Higgins. It was very much the view that the requirements of the general data protection regulation, GDPR, mean an employer must destroy records when it no longer has a legal basis for holding them. That is now the position under EU and domestic law. We believe that is the position that will apply under this legislation....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (8 Nov 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...to maintain and safeguard the relevant record and to inform the Adoption Authority of Ireland of the existence of the record.   Furthermore, under the legislation it is an offence to conceal, destroy, mutilate, or falsify relevant records. This offence carries a penalty of up to 3 years in prison and/or a fine of up to €50,000. Offences shall be reported to An Garda...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...of sealing records. I want to talk about what we did. We preserved a database that the commission of investigation developed. It believed it had to redact that to a point where it would be destroyed. I did not want it to be destroyed, so I brought forward legislation to protect it. The database will be used in this Bill to assist survivors. Rather than survivors having to find some...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ..., and (f) the practices and procedures employed by the Director of FSI to ensure that, in accordance with the requirements of this Act, samples taken under this Act for the purpose of generating DNA profiles are destroyed and the DNA profiles generated from those samples and related information are deleted. (3) The Oversight Committee may, in the performance of its functions under this...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 57: In page 58, to delete lines 7 and 8 and substitute the following: "67.(1) Subject to subsection (2), FSI shall, at the request of a Director, destroy a sample, delete a DNA profile or delete related information in accordance with this Chapter. (2) Subsection (1)shall not operate to require FSI to delete related information that it needs to retain in order to...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...the Minister is of the opinion that— (a) it relates to the care of a child or of children, (b) were it not to be prescribed under this subsection, it or a part of it would be at risk of being destroyed or otherwise lost, and (c) having regard to its historical or social value, it is in the public interest that it be prescribed under this subsection. There are significant...