Results 1-20 of 23 for destroyed speaker:Matt Carthy

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...; that under Article I of the Genocide Convention the Contracting Parties are obliged to prevent genocide; — that the Genocide Convention defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...that Article I of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (‘Genocide Convention’) obliges parties to that Convention, including Ireland, to prevent genocide, which is defined in Article II as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a)...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...to be attacked because now it stands at every single hospital in Gaza? Just 15 out of the 36 hospitals that were in Gaza are even partially functioning. How many more buildings in Gaza need to be destroyed? It is about 50% at this stage. How many Palestinian people in Gaza are going to be forced to starve to death or die of entirely preventable diseases before we match what are welcome...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...least, alleviating the humanitarian crises in these countries. The Taoiseach will attend the European Council meeting at a pivotal, dangerous and worrying time in Palestine. Having absolutely destroyed northern Gaza, and massacred thousands of Palestinians, including thousands of children, Israel has followed a week's respite with an unjustified and unjustifiable intensification of its...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: 129. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he has taken in response to the forced displacement of Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank; the increased funding announced for illegal Israeli settlement construction and expansion in the West Bank, described by the High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Policy as a breach of international humanitarian...

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (28 Nov 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...decisions are so profound that they can have implications for years to come. That is particularly the case when it comes to participation in conflicts. One wrong decision by one Minister or one Government could destroy decades of proud Irish tradition in respect of neutrality in an instant. That is why we need a framework within the Constitution that sets out the basis on which...

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

Matt Carthy: ...does not have the right to forcibly displace over 1.5 million people. I do not believe this needs to be said but Israel does not have the right to target and bomb hospitals, schools and mosques or destroy refugee camps killing entire families, children, the elderly and people with a disability. No one has that right, not Hamas, not Russia and not Israel. Nor do world leaders have the...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...hear that even when Israel targeted and murdered four little Palestinian boys playing football on a beach or when Palestinians were dragged from their homes and forced to watch as those homes were destroyed to allow for new illegal Israeli settlements on lands that are clearly defined in international law as part of Palestine. Not after the countless offensive attacks by Israel against...

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

Matt Carthy: .... This child lost everything – their home, their security, their future and their homeland. They were forced into a refugee camp and waited for the world to act. The world did not act. That first refugee camp was destroyed in a snowstorm, and so it was that this child was forced again to move to what became known as the Jenin refugee camp. Again, the child hoped that the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...were murdered by Israeli forces; five of them were children. Thousands were forced from their homes - which are in refugee camps, by the way. When they returned, many of those homes had been destroyed, water and electricity services were cut and roads had been bombarded. Israel had managed to make refugees out of refugees. For years, in defiance of UN resolutions, the Israeli...

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...from other catastrophes is that it is not simply an historic event - it remains the day-to-day lived reality for those forcibly displaced, including those displaced from the 351 villages completely destroyed. The Nakba is very much a lived reality for the families of those 148 Palestinians, including 23 children, killed by the Israeli occupation forces and settlers so far this year alone....

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Matt Carthy: .... Farmers, through no fault of their own, albeit arguably through the fault of the Department for having allowed ash dieback to enter the country in the first place, saw their entire investments completely destroyed. The Government in large part told them it was their own loss. Then, when they did intervene, they did so in a way that was not anywhere close to what needed to be done. ...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2022)

Matt Carthy: ...was not renewed at that point and is only being updated this year. The absence of that programme means that between now and March, we are unlikely to see a single tree planted. Saplings will be destroyed, and there is a real potential for job losses. Will the Taoiseach intervene to ensure that we have a forestry strategy that works and delivers?

Regulations for the Sale and Distribution of Turf: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2022)

Matt Carthy: ...keen to protect the environment, water quality, biodiversity and air quality of the communities they live in. It is nonsensical to suggest there are people in some part of Ireland who are content in destroying that area in which they live. The numbers of those using turf to heat their homes have declined rapidly over a number of decades. Why is that? The evidence is clear; when they...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Matt Carthy: Concerns relating to issues pertaining to the lives of young children effectively being destroyed as a result of the treatment they received from Kerry CAMHS were received by the HSE in 2018 but no intervention was made to inform a Minister until the end of 2021. Is that what Ms O'Neill is saying?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: ...The Minister's Department sets guidance that I believe dates back to 2015, which states that public bodies must advise individuals when a "person who without lawful excuse and intention to deceive destroys or materially alters a record". Do those requirements and provisions apply to Ministers and their special advisers?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021)

Matt Carthy: ...so I will not say anything that will prejudice the case. In the event that the Data Protection Commissioner's decision was upheld, would an additional cost be attributable to the Department to destroy the associated records?

Freedom of Information: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: ..., rather than providing such confidence, the actions of some Departments and organisations with regard to adherence to FOI legislation is diminishing it. There are Ministers who have deleted and destroyed Government records related to how they carry out their work. If we had a functional FOI system in place, that would not be tolerable. Plenty of examples have been cited this evening of...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Agreements (8 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: ...'s response. He did not accept the exact same speech when it was read to him by his Fine Gael predecessor when he was in opposition. Last week, we learned that 11,088 sq. km of forest had been destroyed in Brazil between the start of August 2019 and the end of July 2020 to make way for beef ranches. That beef is being produced at a very low cost because of the mechanism Brazil uses and...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Agreements (8 Dec 2020)

Matt Carthy: ..., the environment or food production in the long term and should be rejected. The signal we are sending by refusing to reject this outright tells countries such as Brazil that they can continue destroying the environment in the name of food production. That is shameful and I call on the Minister to change tack in a way his predecessor would not.