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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2021)

...and it is good to see that. Our preference is that we would not be dependent on organisations voluntarily making that decision. There is provision in the Bill that would make it an offence to destroy records. If we are concerned that records may be destroyed, once they are destroyed, prosecuting someone after the event is too late at that stage. If we are concerned about the...

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: ...false and defamatory allegations made against me over the last number of years. I am reminded of the quotation by Franklin D. Roosevelt when I look at the way in which Jim Higgins MEP has tried to destroy my good name: "Never let the facts destroy a good story and repetition does not transform a lie".

Written Answers — Medical Records: Medical Records (6 Dec 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the medical records of patients in the Cork area dating from 1950 to the late 1970s were destroyed; the number of records that were destroyed; the difficulties that this has created for people such as those affected by the hepatitis C case in accessing information; if there is a method currently in place to electronically...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Prison Service (3 Jul 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by my officials in the Irish Prison Service that there are no records of files being destroyed in Portlaoise prison in the manner referred to by the Deputy. Given the timeframe involved, there are no staff available to discuss the inference made. I would ask that if the Deputy has any information to confirm that files were destroyed in the manner referred to, he should...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (17 Dec 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...as the WEF's young global leaders. Can Deputy Varadkar explain to me and to the people of Ireland - even if Members here do not want to hear it - why the Young Global Leaders organisation is looking to destroy the power of the people and is destroying our democracy? They rested on that-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...important when we think about our marine area and the protection of it. Not only is that sea an unparalleled store of biodiversity but it is also the most important carbon sink. If we destroy marine biodiversity or if we do not have a proper system for ensuring it is developed in a sustainable way, we will do double the damage to both biodiversity and the attempt to battle climate...

Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel: Statements (20 May 2021)

Johnny Guirke: Hundreds of people have been killed by Israeli air strikes on Gaza and almost a third of that number are children. There are 1,000 people wounded while 17 hospitals and clinics have been damaged or destroyed in the Gaza Strip. Its only coronavirus lab has been wrecked and water pipes serving 800,000 people have been broken. Sewerage systems inside Gaza have also been destroyed, with dozens...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenways Provision (2 Mar 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...with him. My question is, in regard to the money that has been available for greenways from Athenry to Collooney, will there be a instruction given that the work cannot be done at the risk of destroying existing infrastructure that could be used for rail in the future? We need clarification on this issue. We all support greenways, but we do not support greenways that destroy one thing...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Penalties (16 Jan 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers who had land destroyed by the recent storms or swept away by the sea or have land that is flooded or had fences destroyed or had boulders thrown on their land or in any other way are not in compliance with the conditions of either the disadvantaged areas scheme, single farm payment, REP scheme or AEOS will be exempt from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

John McGuinness: In terms of the experience to date, if one asks most whistleblowers if they would do it again, without hesitation they will say "No" because their families have been destroyed, they have been destroyed, their careers and their mental health have been destroyed while what they reported, particularly within Government agencies, is still ongoing. That is a terribly bad example to set. We have...

Agrifood Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2007)

Tom Hayes: ...do not know what they are eating in restaurants and elsewhere because of the Minister's inaction. Nobody knows what are the problems associated with disease in Brazilian beef. Hormones, which can destroy animals, are freely available. Brazilian animals, which are imported for processing in Ireland, are full of hormones and they are destroying our agriculture industry. The motion might...

National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)

Richard Bruton: Under the Taoiseach's stewardship of the Department Finance, not only were the public finances destroyed but the notion that Ministers would ever be responsible for any culpable mismanagement was destroyed. Individual Ministers introduced failed strategies in areas such as climate change, decentralisation, e-Government and health. What happened? Nothing because Ministers sat smugly in...

Written Answers — Drug Seizures: Drug Seizures (4 Mar 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: ...that drugs which are classified as controlled in the Schedule of the Misuse of Drugs Act (1977/1984) which are seized by members of An Garda Síochána in the course of investigations are destroyed upon the determination of court proceedings. Such drugs are destroyed under the supervision of a Detective Inspector from the Garda Technical Bureau following analysis, evidential requirements...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (18 Jun 2015)

Mr. Kevin Cardiff: Well, I'm not ... I mean ... be clear, I didn't say that the documents were destroyed. I said that my surmise is that, as part of a routine practice, documents left behind ... they wouldn't be just left around ... so they would be ... and in the Department of the Taoiseach where they take these things seriously, you know, they would probably be put in a confidential waste...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael Ring: You should be quiet. We had decentralisation in your constituency. We decentralised him and he is staying down there. You destroyed him with 19,000 votes. I like Deputy Harney very much as a person. However, I cannot understand her leading the Progressive Democrats into Government again when they were destroyed by the people, who rejected them. Although they did not want them in...

Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2011)

Séamus Healy: ...and is now implementing the same programme as its predecessor's. Central Statistics Office figures from this week show this Government's policies, in partnership with the IMF and the EU, are destroying jobs. In the first quarter of the Government's tenure, 4,100 jobs were destroyed; in the second quarter, 20,000 jobs. Up to the third quarter of this year, we had the horrendous situation...

Written Answers — UNESCO Property: UNESCO Property (13 May 2008)

Batt O'Keeffe: The Director-General of UNESCO, in his report to the Executive Board of UNESCO on this issue, did not set out which books were destroyed nor did he specifically state what actions the Secretariat would be putting in place to prevent a re-occurrence. I have directed my officials to request further information from UNESCO, through Ireland's Permanent Representation to the Organisation in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)

Tommy Broughan: What, however, if that monetary policy, which may suit the Benelux and Germany best, is destroying the industrial base of Italy, the second industrial power in Europe, as Italian politicians have been saying, or destroying large tranches of Greece's economy in the process? Are the alert mechanism reports picking this up? Will those reports include Brexit and its uncertainty? It will affect...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Data Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Lowry: 395. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a guarantee that all sensitive personal waste data is destroyed as per European Standard EN 15713:2009 and Irish data protection legislation; if he will confirm that all vendors and contractors who are used to destroy sensitive personal data adhere to Shred Grade No.5 of the EN 15713:2009 Standard achieved on-site...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The people who backed Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael asked them when they were at the doors when they were canvassing at the last election not to join with the Green Party. They said they would destroy forestry, which the Green Party has done at first hand. They said they would destroy farming, which Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have done themselves. We now have a housing crisis. Why is...