Results 1-17 of 17 for destroyed speaker:Josepha Madigan

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Josepha Madigan: ...to be taken in the work the Minister, Deputy McEntee, had done with the Commissioner to rally gardaí to react quickly. They did so and managed to dissipate the mob, which was intent on menace and on destroying the reputation of our capital city. I received messages from Italy and from friends in Vienna who had heard of this. This is not who we are in this country. We are a...

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (21 May 2020)

Josepha Madigan: ...weeks. Wildfires have posed a particular threat. Eight fire danger notices have been issued by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The setting of uncontrolled fires, which damage and destroy protected habitats and species in Natura 2000 sites and in our parks and reserves, has been a recurring problem over the years. It is, between 1 March and 31 August, an offence...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Protection (20 May 2020)

Josepha Madigan: ...of badgers, illegal hunting of deer species, illegal hunting of hares with packs of dogs generally known as lurchers, trapping of wild birds such as native finches for illegal trade, wilfully disturbing or destroying the eggs or nests of wild birds, poisoning of raptor species and the illegal cutting of hedges during the nesting season for birds.    Within my Department, the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Areas of Conservation (3 Dec 2019)

Josepha Madigan: ...an offence for a person to cut, pick, uproot or otherwise take, purchase, sell or be in possession of any plant, whether whole or part, of a species mentioned in the order or willfully to alter, damage, destroy or interfere with the habitat of such a species, except under licence issued by me, as Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, for scientific, educational or other such...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Protection (6 Nov 2019)

Josepha Madigan: ..., illegal hunting of deer species, illegal hunting of hares with packs of dogs generally known as lurchers, trapping of wild birds such as native finches for illegal trade, wilfully disturbing or destroying the eggs or nests of wild birds, poisoning of raptor species and the illegal cutting of hedges during the nesting season for birds. While much wildlife crime is local we should...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Protection (5 Nov 2019)

Josepha Madigan: ..., illegal hunting of deer species, illegal hunting of hares with packs of dogs generally known as lurchers, trapping of wild birds such as native finches for illegal trade, willfully disturbing or destroying the eggs or nests of wild birds, poisoning of raptor species and the illegal cutting of hedges during the nesting season for birds. While much wildlife crime is local we should not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Commemorative Events (21 Feb 2019)

Josepha Madigan: ...international collaboration. This project seeks to reimagine and recreate, through virtual reality, the Public Record Office of Ireland and its archival collections, which the Deputy may know were destroyed on 30 June 1922 in the opening engagement of the Civil War. It is recognised that, while incomparable with the loss of human life, this cultural loss was one of the great tragedies of...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Josepha Madigan: ...current year's growth only. There will be no wide-scale deep cutting, and no cutting with heavy machinery or flails. It is also a fact that under the Wildlife Acts it is an offence to wilfully destroy, injure or mutilate the eggs or nest of any bird species. The other fact is that it is being done on a pilot basis. There are further facts relating to managed burning. Fourteen per...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (3 Jul 2018)

Josepha Madigan: ...section 40 of the Wildlife Act. The most recent successful prosecution by my Department was in February, when a defendant was ordered to pay €500 to a wildlife charity for illegally cutting and destroying hedges in County Monaghan. Deputy Bríd Smith raised the EU habitats directive and birds directive. With Ireland as a member state, we unanimously adopted the directive...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Wildlife Protection (21 Jun 2018)

Josepha Madigan: ...only. There will be no widescale deep cutting or cutting with heavy machinery or flails. The Deputy is aware of another fact, that being it is an offence under section 22 of the Wildlife Act to destroy, injure or mutilate wilfully the eggs or nests of any bird species. It is a crime to touch a nest and anyone cutting the hedge is obliged to check for nests. There is enforcement of...

Priority Questions: National Monuments (9 May 2018)

Josepha Madigan: ..., as amended, a preservation order may be made where it appears to the Minister that a monument, which in the Minister's opinion is a national monument, "is in danger of being or is actually being destroyed, injured or removed or is falling into decay through neglect". Apart from any question of whether each and every building referred to by the Deputy would appropriately be regarded as a...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Josepha Madigan: ...would not be at risk. There is another important fact that must be remembered, and it is a fact that can be lost sometimes. It is an offence under the Wildlife Acts, under section 22, to wilfully destroy, injure or mutilate the eggs or nests of any bird species. I wish to advise that there will be regulations and we will have a public consultation process, including consultation with...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Josepha Madigan: ...the discussion is that when we cut hedges at any time of the year, even during the open period between September and February, it is an offence under section 22 of the Wildlife Act 1976 to wilfully destroy, injure or mutilate the eggs or nests of any bird species.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Josepha Madigan: ...designed to protect wildlife and to conserve our natural heritage. The regulations will limit burning to the current year only. Under section 22 of the Wildlife Act, it is an offence wilfully to destroy, injure or mutilate the eggs or nests of any bird species. The provisions of this Bill are on a pilot basis only and have a limited lifespan of two years. It is important that such...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Josepha Madigan: .... For example, heather growth would be replaced by purple moor grass, and this change displaces species like grouse and the hen harrier. Burning during the months of April, May and June will destroy all ground-nesting birds and their chicks, and small mammal and lizard populations are also seriously impacted by this. The high densities of breeding curlew do not arise from burning but...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Digital Archiving (28 Feb 2018)

Josepha Madigan: ...Archives (UK); the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and the Irish Manuscripts Commission to digitally restore the layout and make-up of the Record Treasury of the Public Records Office that was destroyed at the commencement of the Irish Civil war in 1922. This project has been titled Beyond 2022?.  The Beyond 2022 team is working to assemble a complete inventory of loss...

Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)

Josepha Madigan: ...effects of crime on families. In particular, crime perpetrated within families sets a terrible precedent for children, especially when hidden. It stunts their faith in humanity and fair play and destroys the idealism of youth. Crime is utterly corrosive. It undermines our faith in each other and in society. Violence within families is a problem that does not grab headlines unless it...