Results 1-16 of 16 for destroyed speaker:Joe McHugh

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Joe McHugh: As the Deputy is aware the school in question was completely destroyed by fire last Wednesday 16th October and has remained closed since. The school is due to re-open on the 4th November 2019 (after mid-term break) in two local schools. I visited with the school last Wednesday the morning of the fire and met with the Principal, representatives of the patron, some members of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Joe McHugh: As the Deputy is aware the school in question was completely destroyed by fire last Wednesday 16th October and has remained closed since. The school is due to re-open on the 4th November 2019 (after mid-term break) in two local schools. I visited with the school last Wednesday the morning of the fire and met with the Principal, representatives of the patron, some members of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Joe McHugh: As the Deputy is aware the school in question was completely destroyed by fire last Wednesday 16th October and has remained closed since. The school is due to re-open on the 4th November 2019 (after mid-term break) in two local schools. I visited with the school last Wednesday the morning of the fire and met with the Principal, representatives of the patron, some members of...

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (17 Oct 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...which has not been impacted by the fire. All three schools participate in the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, DEIS, programme. As the Deputy is aware, following a fire early yesterday morning, Scoil Chaitríona senior national school was completely destroyed. While Scoil Chaitríona junior school was not damaged by the fire, it suffered some minor water damage....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (10 Apr 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...Redress Board and the Residential Institutions Redress Review Committee.  Under the legislation establishing these bodies the bulk of their records would, on the dissolution of those bodies, fall to be destroyed. The records held by these bodies represent the personal testimony and stories of many survivors of residential institutional child abuse and a range of related...

Retention of Records Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Apr 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...of Dáil Éireann, this requires that the records of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse and the Residential Institutions Redress Board and its confidential committee be retained and not destroyed, as originally envisaged. At the same time, it is incumbent on us to have due regard to the highly sensitive and personal nature of these records and the consequent risks and...

Retention of Records Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Apr 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...ar an mBille tábhachtach seo. The Bill’s purpose is to ensure the records of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, the Residential Institutions Redress Board and its review committee are not destroyed, but are instead retained for posterity. I will now outline the Bill's key provisions. It provides for interaction between the redress bodies and the National Archives to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (2 Apr 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...what took place. The existing legislation for the three redress bodies contains strict confidentiality provisions, including the related provisions that the bulk of their records would be destroyed at the time of the dissolution of the bodies. The Retention of Records Bill is first of all designed to ensure that these records are not destroyed but are retained intact. For this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme Data (26 Mar 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...Review Committee. The existing legislation for the three redress bodies contains strict confidentiality provisions, including the related provisions that the bulk of their records would be destroyed at the time of the dissolution of the bodies. The Retention of Records Bill is first of all designed to ensure that these records are not destroyed but are retained intact. For this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Programme (26 Mar 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...Residential Institutions Redress Review Committee. I must stress that under the legislation establishing these bodies the bulk of their records would, on the dissolution of those bodies, fall to be destroyed. The Bill provides for the retention of the records, their transfer to the National Archives and their sealing and withholding from public inspection for a period of at least 75 years....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commissions of Inquiry (12 Mar 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...and the Residential Institutions Review Committee. I must stress that under the legislation establishing these bodies the bulk of their records would, on the dissolution of those bodies, fall to be destroyed. The records held by these bodies represent the personal testimony and stories of many survivors of residential institutional child abuse and related papers. I believe that these...

Fisheries Conservation (22 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: .... It is an opportunity for the Government to get people along the coast working again. I ask the Minister not to bring the debate down to a facile level, that is, that commercial fishermen are destroying the stock. They are not because they are not even fishing.

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: From the Seanad (20 May 2010)

Joe McHugh: ...and 19 draft net licences. The fishermen concerned decided not to take a voluntary buy-out and decided, because of historic and traditional interests, to keep these licences. They are not destroying the salmon stocks compared to other possible reasons, such as pollution or the seal population. We need a debate on what we can do to try to protect them. We have completely banned drift...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2009)

Joe McHugh: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle would know from his own constituency that stocking credit for farmers to provide the money to buy feed and livestock is not available and it is destroying agricultural activity, as my colleague, Deputy Crawford, and the leader of Fine Gael, Deputy Kenny, pointed out this morning. Farming enterprises form part of the small and medium enterprise sector and we should...

Consumer Issues: Motion (9 Dec 2008)

Joe McHugh: ...there are significant pressures on our services sector arising from health and safety regulations, particularly in regard to requirements for kitchens and other facilities. This country has been destroyed by excessive regulation, not least in regard to the farming sector, as we discussed earlier today. There is too much red tape and too many associated costs for businesses. In addition,...

Road Safety: Motion (16 Oct 2007)

Joe McHugh: ...the stage. At that point, tears were visible on the faces of many students and I realised this was the way to get through to young people and to get the message across that speed kills, maims and destroys. We must also be aware it is not young people alone who are involved in road carnage. We must show all drivers they are not indestructible or immortal. We must respect the roads. The...