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Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2015)

Joe Costello: ...án Ó Ríordáin, to the House. I also welcome the opportunity to speak on this extremely important legislation. Yesterday we addressed a further aspect of the institutionalisation of many women and children in this country over decades, namely, the establishment of the mother and baby homes commission. We still have quite a long way to go in the work that must be done...

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (Resumed) (21 Jan 2015)

Joe Costello: I welcome the Minister. I welcome the initiative he has introduced and am glad to have the opportunity to speak on the motion on the draft order for the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes. The terms of reference are not perfect by any means. In fact, they make it quite clear that this is not the final word on the issue of the treatment of mothers and babies in this...

Report of the Standing Order 103 Select Committee: Motion (17 May 2011)

Joe Costello: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on the motion on the report of the Standing Order 103 Select Committee on the proposal for a Council directive on a common consolidated corporate tax base. Deputy Tóibín is not quite correct in what he said about the Department of Finance. When we met the Department officials in the committee, they emphasised that it was their preliminary...

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (13 Jun 2006)

Joe Costello: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe. I have considerable reservations about this proposed legislation in terms of how it is presented and what it proposes to do. It will not expedite the development of strategic infrastructure throughout the country but will cause more problems than it addresses. The Bill is seriously flawed in at least two respects. First, when the Minister...

Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Feb 2005)

Joe Costello: I must say that when the Minister does it, he does it. Some 22 pages in 45 minutes, as Gaeilge, was certainly over and above the call of duty. A Bill that is likely to contain amendments which will be in excess of the substance of the original text is not the way to do business. The Minister has a penchant for introducing a Bill and then producing a range of ancillary and miscellaneous...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joe Costello: The Independents are giving full support to that motion and amendment, as has now been confirmed. The SDLP has angrily attacked the proposals and categorically denied that it was ever consulted. The DUP has gleefully pointed out that the Irish Government is unilaterally renegotiating the Good Friday Agreement while the parties to the Agreement are sitting in Stormont with strict instructions...