Results 1-10 of 10 for destroyed speaker:Catherine Martin

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (23 Apr 2024)

Catherine Martin: ...funding from my Department in Cork County includes funding of €600,000 awarded to Cork County Council, towards rebuilding the of Briery Gap Theatre & Library, Macroom Co Cork after it was destroyed by fire. In 2014, the Department awarded a grant of €1.5m towards the West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen. Proposals for the development local arts centres are a matter...

National Archives Act 1986 (Section 1(2)(d)) Order 2023: Motion (23 Feb 2023)

Catherine Martin: ...these records survive because they were not transferred to the Public Record Office of Ireland by local court offices before 1922. The National Archives also holds some copies and transcripts of destroyed records, including transcripts of medieval rolls made by the Irish Record Commission and copies of legal and testamentary records obtained from various sources, most notably private...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Census of Population (30 Jun 2022)

Catherine Martin: ...2022: the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, an all-island and international collaborative research project to create a virtual reconstruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland, which was destroyed in the opening engagement of the Civil War exactly one hundred years ago. This includes returns for the 1766 religious census of Ireland, are one of the richest sources available to the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Census of Population (25 Jan 2022)

Catherine Martin: Most of the censuses of population undertaken in 1821 and 1831 were destroyed in a fire at the Public Record Office in 1922. A small number of records of Census 1821 and Census 1831 survive. These are available on the National Archives census website: On the website, the records can be searched by year, surname, forename and various address fields.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cross-Border Co-operation (4 Nov 2021)

Catherine Martin: ...project, which is led by Trinity College Dublin, will lead to an open-access, fully immersive, 3D virtual reality model of the digitally reconstructed Public Record Office of Ireland to be launched in 2022 to mark the centenary of the fire that destroyed the Public Record Office in the opening engagement of the Civil War. The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) is one of 5...

Loss of Biodiversity and Extinction of Species: Statements (Resumed) (30 May 2019)

Catherine Martin: ...ground for dolphins, blue whales and humpback whales and many more species from all over the globe. We do not know where their breeding grounds are. This information highlights that we know next to nothing about what we are destroying off our coasts. That brings me to the dangers of seismic testing to explore for oil and gas off the Irish coast. To map the seabed for fossil fuel...

Report on Building Standards, Building Controls and Consumer Protection: Motion (24 May 2018)

Catherine Martin: ...defects will financially ruin them through no fault of their own. The Government has been inactive on this issue, relying on the homeowners' fear that if they go public the value of their properties will be destroyed, putting them in further financial peril. This is not right, fair or just. Every time I have raised this issue with the Taoiseach and members of the Government, it has...

Heritage Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Catherine Martin: ...is anti-heritage and should be assigned to the scrap heap. Despite the hard work and justified concerns of many legislators from varied political backgrounds who vehemently opposed this Bill, the Minister persists on her mission to destroy our heritage. I am taken aback that this Government and the Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys, would call on us to sanction the destruction of our...

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2016)

Catherine Martin: ...of preventing climate change, we must keep every ounce of carbon in the ground. As a country we should be world leaders in the conservation of our bogs but there is no leadership in this Bill. It chooses to destroy rather than protect. The Minister may dress the Bill up in whatever way she wishes. To the Green Party and many others, however, it is nothing more than a shameful...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Environmental Policy (7 Jul 2016)

Catherine Martin: ...which was set in stone in the recent programme for Government, on page 51 to be exact, would appear to be singularly motivated by a lust for power at any price even if that means sacrificing or destroying part of our country's heritage.