Results 1-20 of 106 for long speaker:Patrick Costello

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

Patrick Costello: ...conversation to be had here. As has been said by other speakers, we are looking at the future Ireland fund. We need similar rules and similar thinking there. We are talking about the need for long-term thinking. Many people here have spoken about the need to think about the long term. For many people I know, it is hard to think in that way because of the crushing reality of climate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Patrick Costello: I thank our guests for coming in and raising these incredibly important issues. At the heart of the matter they are about driver safety and public safety. We are seeing a long overdue and much-needed investment in public transport in recent years. We could do with getting more into public transport, but there has certainly been a big increase in investment in public transport. However, it...

Fair Procedures in the Administration of Justice Bill 2024: First Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Patrick Costello: ...of justice administered in the courts under Article 34. This is a hugely consequential judgment because, essentially, there is a huge problem with the role of quasi-judicial bodies. I could spend a long time talking about that. Essentially, however, we are pushing more of our justice administration on to these quasi-judicial bodies where the same level of fair procedures and balance,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (7 Mar 2024)

Patrick Costello: ...within the Cherry Orchard Hospital facility; how many of these could have been used to house residents whilst works were ongoing; what is the current state of repair of any vacant units onsite; how long have these units been vacant; how much would it cost to bring these units back into use and whether this is being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11330/24]

Law Reform (Contracts) Bill 2024: First Stage (5 Mar 2024)

Patrick Costello: ...these two things put together neatly in one Bill. I ask the Government to really look at this and take it on itself because these are very simple, straightforward things and it should not take so long.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (31 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: ...the report 'Respiratory Health in Oliver Bond House', launched last week; its analysis of the findings of the report and what specific measures his Department is taking (in both the short and long term) to alleviate the negative health consequences of living in Oliver Bond House; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4668/24]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (30 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: While I welcome the increase in respect of 24 judges the Minister mentioned, is it intended to recruit yet more judges? There are still huge delays in how long it takes a trial to get on. A criminal trial being delayed causes problems for the victim, for the accused, especially for an accused who may later be found not guilty, and for the administration of justice generally. The additional...

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

Patrick Costello: ...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 closures and house demolitions. We have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: ...To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct HIQA to carry out research relating to gender affirming care in Ireland comparing it to international best practice as the body previously did for long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1872/24]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...person. Where there was a suggestion of disability, CAMHS would shut down and not touch the case. Ms Grogan made the point that people who are engaged with CAMHS have been on a waiting list for a long time. However, there is also a whole cohort of people who never make it onto that waiting list. It is important to name them. Dr. McCarney touched on the community services. An answer...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...for overhaul and expansion? If the Minister of State would like to take it up, I have a Private Member's Bill that does exactly that. I ask about expansion of the civil legal aid scheme, which is long overdue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Coercion: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: We have had a lot of evidence from jurisdictions that have introduced this and have conducted their own research and have had this for a long time.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Issues Facing the Early Childhood Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...of inviting the witnesses to deliver their opening statements, I wish to advise them of the following important point in respect of parliamentary privilege: witnesses and members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable or otherwise...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Patrick Costello: 1 o’clock Our Lady of Hope school in Crumlin caters for children with autism and general learning disabilities. It was opened after a long and gruelling campaign by local parents. However, when capital funding was made available for the establishment of the school, it did not provide for any indoor physical education, PE, space and the school still has no indoor space for PE....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (26 Oct 2023)

Patrick Costello: 271. To ask the Minister for Health the reason certain anti-seizure medications are not covered under the long-term illness scheme, despite being used in the treatment of epilepsy, which is a specified condition under the LTI (details supplied); if he will provide details on the processes required to have these formulations of medications covered under the LTI; and if he will make a statement...

Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...a brave, strong family has been a wonderful experience. As I only have a short time, I will not go into the details of the report, which has been explored by many of my colleagues. It is very long but let us not confuse the length of the report with completeness. Quite simply, we have terms of reference that do not seem to have been followed. We have questions that should have been...

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

Patrick Costello: The news of funding and the humanitarian aid and effort is very welcome, and I know it will go a long way on the ground. It highlights another issue in that now there is a UN mission on the ground where there was not before and the UNHRC is getting involved whereas before there was a threadbare presence from the Red Cross. That was essentially all that was able to get into the region, which...

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

Patrick Costello: ...one-state reality, this settlement construction, and this hollowing out of Palestinian territory like a doughnut, and which has just disappeared, means we may have missed that right time. We waited so long for just the right moment that it went right by us. The reality is that there will be no two-state solution. There is a programme for Government commitment on annexation. If there is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Consent and Capacity: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...rather than the actual issue of consent. Consider also R. v.Wilson, where branding was allowed and the interesting judgment in R. v.Stein where the court said that such things were permissible so long as one could withdraw consent. This then raises the question whereby the law seems a little bit more fluid here, but does the legislative change render it moot? Then there is the...