Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I ask him to give me a bit of leeway. I do not understand the idea of dealing with Vote 28 first instead of Vote 27. As I mentioned to the previous Minister, we are supposed to scrutinise the programme. I am not criticising the Department's staff but we need to look at the measure again. This is not a matter for today but I want the Minister to comment. We are keen to look at the scrutiny of other countries and how they deal with budgets and so on, and similarly with this matter. I ask the Minister and Ministers of State to note my point. It is important and I presume other members share my view.

I will now deal with programme A, promoting Ireland's economic and trade interests. I noticed that the trade promotion fund focused a lot on priority Asian countries. Can the Minister outline which Asian countries?

A trade delegation from Ireland visited Cuba a number of years ago. Are there plans for another visit now that there has been a breakthrough in talks between Cuba and America?

The Colombian economic agreement was mentioned. Is the Minister concerned about the mechanisms for triggering concern about, for example, rights abuse when it comes to agreements?