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Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Joe Costello: ...in it from that point of view. There was also the RIC and the British Army, which were made up, by and large, of Irish people as well. We need to deal with all of this. My father was in the old IRA. There is a huge amount of work being done in Cathal Brugha barracks. I wish to know the extent to which the Department is involved in this. This development is a massive job of work. I...

Boston College Belfast Project Papers (10 Jul 2012)

Joe Costello: ...paramilitaries deposited in the Burns Library at the college. The initial subpoena related to the interviews of Ms Dolours Price and Mr. Brendan Hughes, two former members of the Provisional IRA. A second subpoena was issued seeking "any and all interviews containing information about the abduction and death of Ms Jean McConville", one of the disappeared victims of the Provisional IRA....

Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: ...At one time, indeed, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland was moved to congratulate the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on the valuable work of the Donegal gardaí in thwarting IRA bombers. If he only knew the half of what was going on. The unthinkable had happened in that rogue gardaí were perverting the course of justice for their own ends and particularly to...

European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Mar 2007)

Joe Costello: The IRA charter was to discredit this State.

Chief Executive of Centre for Public Inquiry: Statement by Minister. (13 Dec 2005)

Joe Costello: ...he not also lay before the Houses the Garda files on all Deputies suspected of close connections with the provisional movement, including one Member who he has already alleged is a member of the IRA army council? If the security of the State is so much at risk, would it not be better to brief the Oireachtas and all the journalists of the country now? It is not desirable in principle or in...

Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)

Joe Costello: .... At one time, indeed, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland was moved to congratulate the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform for the valuable work of the Donegal Garda in thwarting IRA bombers. If he only knew what was going on. The tribunal has identified the perpetrators on the ground in Donegal. Superintendents Shelley and McGinley have now taken early retirement after...

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion. (16 Jun 2005)

Joe Costello: ...to clarify that. He introduced a second Special Criminal Court for no apparent reason that he could justify. Perhaps he expected an outbreak of paramilitary activity on the part of the Continuity IRA or the Real IRA which would have to be dealt with. Is this second Special Criminal Court operational? What has been done about it? Was it established to deal with a backlog of cases that were...

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion. (23 Mar 2005)

Joe Costello: ...Judge Cory undertook was interesting. There is scope in reading his report to interpret it in two ways and it is difficult to identify which is stronger. Given the high level of Provisional IRA activity on both sides of the Border in the general Dundalk area and the strength of the organisation in the late 1980s, the assassinations of Mr. Breen and Mr. Buchanan could easily have occurred...

Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Feb 2005)

Joe Costello: ...long ago. The legislation contains severe measures which will have fundamental and far-reaching implications in many respects, not least in the area of civil liberties. More than ten years after the IRA ceasefire, the Government remains of opinion — so far, the Dáil has agreed with the Government on this matter — that ordinary jury courts are inadequate to secure the effective...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland Issues: Northern Ireland Issues (3 Feb 2005)

Joe Costello: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the nature of the evidence he has of Sinn Féin or IRA involvement in criminality such as robberies or punishment beatings in the Republic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3235/05]