Results 1-20 of 41 for destroyed speaker:Joe Costello

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Mar 2015)

Joe Costello: ...highs and many ended up in hospital. Parents were beside themselves with fear for their teenage sons and daughters. There was a real concern that the drug epidemic of heroin and cocaine that had destroyed a generation of young people in the 1980s and early 1990s in the flat complexes throughout the city could be replicated by the unlicensed and unregulated activity and that a new...

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)

Joe Costello: ...to provide PPS numbers, which was a source of concern for people. People were concerned as to how these numbers might be used but it is now clear that any numbers already obtained by Irish Water will be destroyed. The new Irish Water service is a necessary consolidation of what went before. Many Members of this House have been members of local authorities and will know that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict: Discussion with Minister of State at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (16 Oct 2013)

Joe Costello: ...long the Israelis knew it was there or what function it was going to serve. What is life like in Gaza? I would have thought that life was worse when I was there after Operation Cast Lead, which destroyed so many buildings. At one factory, one could see where the tyres of the tanks had destroyed the equipment after the factory had been blown up. They also made sure that all the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2013)

Joe Costello: There are currently 4 million people in desperate need of the basic means of survival. Over 2 million Syrians are displaced inside the country, their homes and communities destroyed and uninhabitable. More than 1.3 million people are now taking refuge in neighbouring countries after fleeing the hostilities. Despite serious risks and constraints on their operations, humanitarian workers are...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (19 Feb 2013)

Joe Costello: ...another eighty-four families were reportedly evicted from Camp Fanm Koperativ. In both cases agencies on the ground say that there was little or no notice of the eviction before their shelters were destroyed. Amnesty International has called on the authorities to stop all illegal and violent evictions of people living in make-shift camps and to take meaningful steps to provide them with...

Topical Issue Debate: Syrian Civil War (31 Jan 2013)

Joe Costello: ...The UN and Arab League Joint Special Representative, Lakhdar Brahimi, was characteristically candid when briefing the UN Security Council on Tuesday. He underlined the clear threat of Syria being progressively destroyed bit by bit unless the violence ends and some form of political process is initiated. The Tánaiste is attending the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels today. It...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (20 Dec 2012)

Joe Costello: ...region has now passed half a million. Syrians’ access to the most basic medical care has been seriously undermined. Stocks of essential drugs are low, storage facilities for medicines have been destroyed and local production of medicines has been severely disrupted. Health workers find themselves increasingly under threat and medical facilities have been indiscriminately targeted....

Seanad: Sexual Violence in Conflict: Motion (27 Nov 2012)

Joe Costello: ...situation starkly: "In no other area is our collective failure to ensure effective protection for civilians more apparent than the masses of women and girls, but also boys and men, whose lives are destroyed each year by sexual violence perpetrated in conflict". The estimate is that up to 500,000 women and girls were raped during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, up to 50,000 women and girls...

Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2012)

Joe Costello: ..., of the economy and of whether the fairly harsh road on which we have had to embark is being trodden on carefully and diligently. This is all about people's lives which have been damaged and destroyed in one way or another and about people who are in arrears with their mortgages, those who are unemployed and whose income has dropped considerably. We have been seeking to put in place the...

Seanad: European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Jun 2012)

Joe Costello: ...Revisiting the principles under which the EU was founded would be useful. They were principles of solidarity between all of the countries in Europe after the devastation of Second World War, which destroyed many people's lives. It was a peace process. John Hume has put on record his belief that it is the greatest peace process that the world has ever experienced, bringing together...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Costello: On 12 January 2010, Haiti was struck by one of the most devastating earthquakes in recent history, causing approximately 230,000 deaths and 300,000 injuries. The earthquake destroyed much of Port-au-Prince and the surrounding areas, left about 1.5 million people homeless and caused losses and damage estimated at approximately €5.9 billion. Given the scale of the death and destruction...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (1 Feb 2012)

Joe Costello: ...needs. In particular, large-scale investment will continue to be required in order to provide both immediate humanitarian relief and to rebuild housing, revitalize urban planning, reconstitute destroyed communities, develop new communities and create employment opportunities. In addition, we recognise the longer term challenge of building an effective public administration in Haiti....

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (17 Jan 2012)

Joe Costello: The devastating earthquake which struck Haiti on 12 January 2010 killed more than 230,000 people and injured 300,000 others. The earthquake destroyed much of Port-au-Prince and the surrounding areas, left approximately 1.5 million people homeless and caused losses and damage estimated at approximately €5.9 billion. Two years on, a massive and sustained humanitarian operation has yielded...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (18 Oct 2011)

Joe Costello: Question 365: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality how a refugee who has been granted residency here but whose home documents are lost or destroyed in their home country can apply for naturalisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29487/11]

Suicide Prevention: Statements (Resumed) (3 May 2011)

Joe Costello: ..., I pay tribute to all the voluntary organisations who are doing such good work, such as Pieta House, ASIST, Aware, the Samaritans and so forth. Suicide is the silent killer in our society. It destroys lives, creates victims and causes devastation to many families in this country. As Members are aware, there are twice as many deaths by suicide as there are deaths on our roads. That is a...

Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2011)

Joe Costello: ...friendship by Members on all sides of the House. We are now in the dying days of this Government but it has been in free fall for many weeks. This free fall started with the bank guarantee which destroyed the economy and the nation's sovereignty. The IMF and the EU entered the country unopposed and dictated savage financial conditions for the banks' bail-out on the taxpayers. The...

Severe Weather Events (18 Jan 2011)

Joe Costello: ...budget so the local authorities, the Department of Transport and the other relevant bodies are able to prepare well in advance and ensure we do not have a situation where people's travel plans are destroyed at one of the busiest times of the year, which is what happened in many cases? While the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has the lead role at present, given...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2010)

Joe Costello: .... We will support him in every way and there is still time. Unfortunately, this budget protects the elite in our society, many of whom are associated with the financial institutions which have destroyed our economy and are threatening our social cohesion. This is a bad and dangerous budget. It must be opposed and the Government which produced it must be put out of office as quickly as...

Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (Resumed) (5 Oct 2010)

Joe Costello: ...carriages for an hourly service between Dublin and Belfast and the Minister for Transport is threatening to abolish the €15 million public service obligation for regional airports. This would destroy business and tourism connectivity throughout the regions, a point of which the Minister of State, Deputy Dara Calleary, should be aware. Such a sum could destroy connectivity,...

Child Welfare and Protection Services: Statements (29 Apr 2010)

Joe Costello: .... Leadership was only shown in order to effect a cover-up, protect the church, avoid scandal and ensure the reputation of the church was not tainted. At the same time, the church was being destroyed internally by excesses of the clergy, including those in positions of authority. One has to ask how it could have happened. It did happen. There was nobody to prevent it from happening. I...