Results 1-10 of 10 for destroyed speaker:Colm Brophy

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Brophy: ...desire to instil in young people how important Europe was and what Europe as an institution came out of. We forget sometimes that it was the collective answer to war across a continent that had destroyed Europe for centuries. It was also about what it could be for Ireland. We were only members for ten or 12 years and he saw that potential. He always fought within the Irish political...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: .... I saw, on a number of occasions, when I had the privilege of working in the Department, the work we do in our aid programme and the work we have pioneered. Indeed, some of that work has been destroyed by Israeli military actions from time to time. When people - and it is people are talking about - are at risk of one of the most catastrophic crises if there is a ground invasion, it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: ...open to looking at how to handle enlargement and development of the European Union but I urge the Minister of State that a proposal as fundamentally wrong as this one not be entertained. It would destroy Ireland’s ability to be a full member of the European Union, along with most smaller member states. That is fundamentally different from changes around qualified majority voting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Horn of Africa: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (29 Nov 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...at almost double the global rate, with changing weather patterns and environmental degradation having a huge impact, shaping conflict cycles, impacting food production, threatening livelihoods and destroying ways of life. These climate-induced shocks are closely intertwined with what were already effectively unsustainable food systems. Those systems have continued to deteriorate as the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Horn of Africa: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (29 Nov 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...negotiator on this. At the heart of what loss and damage is is the ability to move money quickly to countries, such as those in the horn of Africa, and to recognise that these countries are being destroyed now and not in the future by a climate-induced disaster, for which they really are not in any way responsible in terms of climate change. They will be the countries that are impacted...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (24 Jun 2021)

Colm Brophy: ...consequences have been devastating for a community already enduring both a blockade and the COVID-19 pandemic. According to local authorities, more than 2000 housing units were damaged or destroyed and essential services, including water, sanitation and health systems, adversely affected.  In light of this situation, on 19 May my colleague the Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs (Revised) (3 Jun 2021)

Colm Brophy: ...then there was a reduction, which had quite severe impacts. I join Deputy Brady in his condemnation. It is awful when we see aid projects funded either by Irish Aid or the European Union targeted or destroyed as part of any hostilities or situation developing. Structures are in place to enable compensation to be sought and this should be done. Even if something is going to become a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport Provision (27 Feb 2019)

Colm Brophy: ...being proposed cannot go ahead. If roads are closed on a 24-7 basis, as currently proposed by the NTA, there will be traffic gridlock in Dublin city. We cannot reverse that overnight. If we destroy communities by building these hyper-lanes down roads that do not need to be built, we cannot reverse that overnight. We have major decisions to make and we need a much greater...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Public Water Forum (22 Feb 2017)

Colm Brophy: ...on board, so I reassure Dr. Collins that the biggest thing the grandparents of Ireland who are minding children have complained to me about over the past five or six years is the fact that someone destroyed the economy of our country, that they are delighted to have the children in the house and minding them and that their own children are out working.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Prisons, Penal Policy and Sentencing: Irish Penal Reform Trust (8 Feb 2017)

Colm Brophy: ...to be minor are high impact on both the victims and the communities when they are committed repeatedly. I refer in particular to the impact of the crime of burglary. A single act of burglary can destroy an older person's entire life. It can destroy their home, where they live, relationships within families and their ability to live independently in a community. I do not believe they...