Results 1-14 of 14 for destroyed speaker:Patrick Costello

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Patrick Costello: ...a pension if climate change is going to eradicate society as we know it or if it is going to cause such disturbance that pension pots are essentially worthless because runaway climate change has destroyed the economy as well as destroying the planet and livelihoods. It is about investing in sustainable energy in a way that is not supporting the fossil fuel industry. I would argue it is...

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

Patrick Costello: We have spoken a lot about genocide. It is important to underline that genocide turns on intention to kill or destroy. It is not about the numbers, the method used or the time it takes to happen. Before the current brutal phase of this long conflict, we saw the brutality of the occupation, with settlement building by Israel in contravention of international law, land confiscations, land...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts (3 Oct 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...right to life, something the Azerbaijani Government has utterly failed to do. We have moved beyond ethnic cleansing. Once again we are moving into the realm of genocide. It is not only about destroying the people who are there but destroying any memory that they were even there to begin with. What will we do to uphold international law? We have two rulings, which is a rarity in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (28 Sep 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...settler violence, demolitions and the forced transfer of Palestinian populations. What we are witnessing is Israel deliberately inflicting on Palestinians actions and conditions of life designed to destroy them within the West Bank. They are designed to destroy Palestinian communities in the West Bank. We need to call these out. To call them negative trends or say they are not giving...

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

Patrick Costello: ...cannot escape it because we are not helping give them an escape route. As I say, we need to stand up for international law. What we are witnessing is a deliberate intention by the Israeli Government to destroy the Palestinian national group inflicting on them a way of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in the West Bank and in Gaza. This is utterly horrific. If...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...centres. We did not do enough then. Some people were screaming into the void and warning us, but we did not do enough. If the far right and those who are ultimately opposed to and trying to destroy society are developing, learning and advancing, what are we missing now? We have spoken a lot about the algorithm, community development and all those kinds of pieces but the Government,...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Patrick Costello: ...find ways to do more because what we are doing is not enough. The occupation is not just continuing; it is grinding on and down and becoming more entrenched. The lives of Palestinians are being destroyed as a result.

Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (30 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: ...has altered and purports to alter the character and status of Jerusalem”. What we are seeing is the Israeli Government deliberately inflicting on the Palestinian people policies and conditions of life calculated to destroy their presence in their community in East Jerusalem. This is also happening across the West Bank. We note land confiscations, the declaration of military...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Digital Recording) Bill 2021: Discussion (21 Sep 2021)

Patrick Costello: .... They are the issues I would like to see addressed along with head 15 in relation to a lack of urgency test and an unnecessarily long period of 72 hours. I appreciate there are times when evidence may be destroyed when there is a need to act quickly from the gardaí. As I said, however, if we compare that to other legislation around warrants and searches, there is an urgency test as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Representatives of the Ballymurphy Families (25 May 2021)

Patrick Costello: ...the Saville inquiry. We have seen obstruction by the British Government at every turn. We only need look at inquiries such as the Stevens inquiries and the Cory inquiry where hard drives were seized and destroyed in the middle of an inquiry. Every effort is being made to prevent inquiries or tribunals happening and, when they do happen, to obstruct them even if it is by sabotage, by...

Ballymurphy Inquest: Statements (18 May 2021)

Patrick Costello: ...been described here as blocking the truth. We have seen refusals by the British Government and state to release papers and archives. We have seen the hard drives of the Cory inquiry seized and destroyed while the inquiry was still in progress. These are really nasty and insidious things that are ultimately blocking the truth. As everyone here has said, this is a trauma and truth and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Data Protection Regulation: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Patrick Costello: ...acting for me in a small legal matter. I want to pick up on something he mentioned in his submission. Paragraph 12 references that several cases have emerged where the data controller deleted or destroyed information after the complaint was filed. I am conscious that An Garda Síochána have a duty to seek out and preserve all evidence bearing on the guilt or innocence of an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Engagement with the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Youth (16 Feb 2021)

Patrick Costello: Given the time pressure, I will try to be quick. If a summary is presented without a full recording or transcript, and the recording is destroyed afterwards, that is a huge problem. There are many questions about how close a summary it was. Why was this done? Why was this chosen? There are questions about the informed consent of the participants and so on. We can only get those answers,...

Pre-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (7 Oct 2020)

Patrick Costello: ..., as we do others, to demand that there is compensation for these demolitions. If we are building humanitarian structures, housing and providing solar panels and they are being confiscated or destroyed, we should be looking for compensation for them. We cannot allow the impunity regarding breaches of international law to continue. Until we stand up to them and demand consequences for...