Results 1-20 of 37 for destroyed speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...State tried to bury the scandal and deny these victims their voice. It is reprehensible that we are debating once again an issue concerning a medical scandal and a subsequent cover-up that has destroyed people's lives. To be frank, it sends shivers up my spine. What kind of State and society are we when we repeatedly find ourselves in these situations? When will we learn the lessons? ...

National Monuments (The Moore Street Battlefield) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...of our heritage could even consider, or worse facilitate, the bulldozing of one of our most precious national sites is beyond belief. No other state or government worldwide would ever consider destroying its heritage to allow a developer to speculate for profit. The handling of this issue by the Government has been nothing short of a disgrace. Our heroes of 1916, those brave souls who...

Incorrect Birth Registrations: Statements (14 Jun 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...access to the very information that records their entry into this world is to deny them a very basic human right. Birth certificates were altered and disappeared, while in some cases they were destroyed. Children were taken illegally from parents. These actions were disgraceful and wrong in the extreme. There are difficulties in striking a balance between the right to one's identity...

Topical Issue Debate: Location of Victims' Remains (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...the where, that is, when this was done, who carried it out and under whose direction and where, and in what way, was Aidan's rib cage section disposed of? Is it retrievable or is it irretrievably destroyed? That is unclear from the letter from Dr. Lyness, which, more than 30 years after Aidan's murder at Aughnacloy at the Tyrone-Monaghan border has come as an absolute shock to his...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...takes so long to process individual applications. It is better to have a result that is reflective of the facts and information to hand rather than this suspension of peoples' lives, which is soul destroying for them, particularly where there are children involved. It is absolutely dreadful. I have to say this is the area that causes greatest concern in my opinion.

Commission of Investigation into the Grace case: Motion (7 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...out by senior counsel Conor Dignam, concerns were included pertaining to the shortcomings in the documents available, specifically that documents that would have been of relevance were deliberately destroyed by unknown persons. Do we know who was involved in such actions? Ultimately, will any or all of those who will be shown to have acted criminally be made amenable to the laws of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Wellness, Well-being and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Jan 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...must understand that bullying, exclusion, marginalisation, name-calling and the rest of these things which seem to be even more hurtful and intrusive to the well-being of individuals today can destroy minds, personalities and beautiful lives. Some of it is because of social media, etc. which was never there in my time. In the concentration of address, I refer to guidance counsellors in...

Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...worst ravages of the deluges that washed across this land during December and into January watched the television reportage of others' misfortune across whole swathes of the country. We saw homes destroyed, land use lost, animals at risk, and farm machinery, cars and other equipment damaged beyond recovery. Significant areas of rural and urban Ireland have suffered grievously. Our...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...Protection of Life during Pregnancy Act 2013, which restated the general prohibition on abortion in Ireland while regulating access to lawful termination of pregnancy in circumstances where the life of the mother is at risk. That Act states clearly it is a criminal offence to destroy intentionally unborn human life. Prior to its enactment, there was the protection of the offences against...

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Second Stage (28 May 2014)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...have heard to date. The chairperson of the IMO's GP committee has stated:This legislation has nothing to do with GP visit cards for children. It is nothing less than a unilateral attempt to replace the long-standing GMS Contract with a new, draconian contract which will destroy the very fabric of the GP service in Ireland and there are very serious concerns as to the future viability of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (20 Feb 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...has been drawn to a person (details supplied) who travelled here last summer to have his eye replaced in Temple Street Children’s Hospital, Dublin after a tear gas canister hit him in the face and destroyed his left eye, and who was sentenced on 28 January 2013, to six months in prison in Bahrain on charges of illegal gathering; and if he will raise concerns over his incarceration...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, tried to give the impression that spending on health would increase when the truth is that cuts of €781 million are to be imposed in 2013. Fine Gael and the Labour Party are destroying our health services. When they cut more than €750 million from the health budget for 2012, in addition to the €1 billion cut in 2011,...

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...áil Party is increasingly attempting to insinuate itself back into communities. It still has cheerleaders in the media and, together with them, it is trying to foster collective amnesia in the hope that many will forget its appalling record in destroying the economy and exercising a deeply corrupting influence on politics. No one should forget any of this.

Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (17 May 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...that an official review has concluded that thousands of documents detailing some of the most shameful acts and crimes committed during the final years of the British Empire were systematically destroyed to prevent them falling into the hands of post-independence governments. Those papers that survived were flown to Britain, where they were hidden for 50 years in a secret Foreign Office...

Written Answers — Data Retention: Data Retention (15 Mar 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...respect of same; if he has considered an opt-out clause on same, whereby all cards would be stored unless specifically requested by an individual or his or her parent or guardian that it should be destroyed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14761/12]

Credit Availability (16 Jun 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Minister for Finance and the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation need to act urgently because the banks in this State are actually destroying viable businesses. The Government and its predecessor have poured billions of public money into these banks. The present coalition in its programme for Government and in its so-called jobs initiative has made commitments to make credit...

National Recovery Plan 2011 - 2014: Statements. (25 Nov 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...crisis. First, the State is being sold out to the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and international money-lenders, and what remains of our economic sovereignty is being destroyed. Clearly, it is an attack on Irish democracy. Second, a Government with no mandate purports to impose on the people a four year plan, an IMF-ECB deal and a budget for 2011. Third, the...

Tourism Industry: Motion (22 Jun 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...employment through community projects. That will be possible only if we have a Government that adopts a positive attitude to such matters as opposed to the current austerity regime threatening to destroy much of what those community-based employment initiatives have achieved. The motion neglects to mention one area of vital importance, namely, cross-Border and all-Ireland tourism. As a...

Constitutional Amendment on Children: Motion (18 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...McAnaspie. The family endured a terrible ordeal during the weeks Daniel was missing and has now been visited by the worst ordeal of all as they prepare to lay to rest this boy whose life was destroyed before he had the opportunity to begin that life. We will never know the terrible ordeal suffered by Daniel. What we do know is that he fell into the hands of murderers when he was...

Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (11 Jun 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...The crimes were compounded by the cover-ups, and it has taken the survivors many long and painful years to expose the truth and to achieve the recognition they deserve. The lives of children were destroyed in institutions run mainly by Catholic religious orders. The crimes included general neglect, deprivation of adequate food and clothing, denial of the right to education, forced labour...