Results 1-20 of 31 for destroyed speaker:Catherine Connolly

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...in giving any amount of money, and yet when it comes to the people of Palestine, the Government stands up here and says that it is giving money to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, and that we have given money here and there, while the country is being destroyed. We are allowing that to happen, a Cheann Comhairle. What do we do with her friends, the US? We allow them to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I am sticking to facts. Israel cannot wait to go back on the pretence of getting rid of Hamas. What it is really doing is destroying Palestine and the Palestinian people while you nod and shake your heads in relation to it.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...army that is out of control and we need to call it out for what it is. We have lost 89 UNRWA staff and 37 journalists and people in media. That has been done by Israel, which is going in to destroy Hamas and in doing so it is destroying the Gazan and Palestinian people. I do not know how we can hedge our bets on that. I do not know how we can use nuanced language. Genocide is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...Nations has said that Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children. He said: The nightmare for Gaza is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a crisis of humanity. I am asking for us to use our voice. We cannot wait for Europe to mature and get its act together. We need to use our voices to call for an immediate ceasefire to stop the indiscriminate bombing of civilians, hospitals and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (10 Oct 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...Israel but illegally occupied; if this rejection by Israel significantly reduced his capacity to see and experience the effects of the illegal occupation in areas where schools have recently been destroyed and residents have been forced to flee because of settler attacks; if he regards this denial of access as a further rebuff to the international community by Israel; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (10 Oct 2023)

Catherine Connolly: .../Palestine, if he planned or attempted to visit Ein Samiya in Area C of the West Bank, where, according to reports from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, schools were destroyed in August and Palestinian residents were forced to flee following attacks from illegal settlers; if he had any engagement with Israeli authorities with regard to a visit to this area, and...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...and Garden, where the army goes into a refugee camp that is 70 years old. That in itself tells a story. This is one of 19 refugee camps and it has been there for 70 years. The Israeli army goes in, destroys all around it and calls it, to my horror, Operation Home and Garden. There was no water and 3,000 people were left with nowhere to go. The vast majority have gone back to absolute...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2023)

Catherine Connolly: .... This man has written a book about that. The issue for me today is on a court case taken by the Christian Brothers against him because he has some records that they want back. It is not that they want to make these records available to the public. Presumably, they want to keep, hide or destroy them. The man in question is on record as saying that he burned previous records on their...

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...from their homes. In that time - it is important to say it slowly - more than 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly removed from their homes. Some 531 Palestinian villages were completely destroyed. I say that while being conscious of the international and national commentary. The UN Security Council, in its presidential statement on 20 February, reiterated that continuing Israeli...

Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...what is included here being interesting, what is also interesting is the countries that are not included. Israel and Saudi Arabia are not included. Interestingly, Yemen, a country that is being destroyed by the arms industry through Saudi Arabia and other countries, is included and faces restrictions. We read a report on two levels: by reference to what is in it and by reference to what...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Park-and-Ride Facilities (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: .... Cycling, light rail, using Oranmore and Athenry and increasing the frequency of trains are all also features. The most frustrating thing is that Galway is a city destined to grow. We cannot destroy its natural beauty. Thanks be to God, we have a beautiful city. However, we have certainly messed up the planning and we continue to do so. We do not have a city architect or an overall...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...Tutu, where he "identified war and the war industry as one of the great evils of our time [and] pointing to the immoral wastage of resources which it represents as well as the extent to which it destroys people and wreaks havoc on our precious planet". I agree totally with Afri, which also stated: “On the occasion of the burial of such a great peacemaker, we ask: why is Ireland...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...that was in the Government’s offices from October last year was only published in January of this year and was never given to the former residents until afterwards, and so on. There is a whole list of other delays and obfuscations, not to mention the tapes and the press release saying they had been destroyed when, subsequently, it was found they had not been. I am conscious I am...

Adoption (Information) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Sep 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...to us that that would be investigated and brought to a conclusion but it never has been. Then, of course, the survivors and those involved were never given the report. Subsequently, we had the debacle over evidence being destroyed that was not destroyed. I had the privilege last week of spending hours with a person, although I will not say if it is a man or woman for fear of identifying...

Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...stories to be published and for people to listen to them. Not alone were those stories not published but lies were told. I use that word very advisedly. Lies were told that the evidence was destroyed. Now we find out, at the last minute, that it was not destroyed. That in itself raises questions about the whole issue of trust around this process. If a commission of inquiry tells us...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (24 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...and Youth the details of the way in which the audio recordings of oral evidence given by persons to the Confidential Committee of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes were destroyed; the reason these recordings cannot be retrieved or recovered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10367/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: The purpose of an apology is to give meaningful action. A commission has destroyed evidence and yesterday the Minister told the Joint Committee on Children, Disability, Equality and Integration that the commission has said there is no way of retrieving it. Did he not make the Taoiseach aware of that letter? Second, I am asking that all of the correspondence be published. Third, we have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...and the Taoiseach's apology was the start of that. Since then on every level that trust has been repeatedly broken, specifically regarding the evidence that was given on the audio tapes. I raised this with the Taoiseach as have other Deputies. I would like a very clear answer from the Taoiseach today as to why that evidence was destroyed. Can it possibly be retrieved? I ask the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (11 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...manner by which persons who gave testimony to the confidential committee of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes were notified that the recordings of their testimony would be destroyed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7513/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (11 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...about the possibility of the retrieval and-or recovery of audio recordings of testimony given by persons to the confidential committee of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes destroyed by the commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7514/21]