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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to reports that Israeli forces disguised as Palestinian students entered Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank of Palestine and abducted the head of the university's student council on 7 March 2018 (details supplied); if he will speak out against this operation and aggression; and if he will contact...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 130. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the report on the costings of pay equality (details supplied) will be published. [12014/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by pupils attending a school (details supplied); if the site has been identified as a priority site by the school capital appraisal section; when the conveyancing process will commence; when it will be completed; and if it has been or will be passed to the major projects...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department advises schools on the percentage of children with complex special educational needs such as autism spectrum disorder that is safe to include in a mainstream class in primary school; if there is a tipping point; and his views on whether there should be a balance of children with and without special educational needs in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the special needs unit in a school (details supplied) will open in September 2018; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the school will have a further ten junior infant children with autism spectrum disorder starting school in September in addition to high numbers of pupils with complex needs in large junior and senior...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to approve the immediate opening of one special class in a school (details supplied) in view of the long waiting list of children with autism requiring places in special classes in Firhouse and the surrounding areas; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that opening a special class now would alleviate the pressure on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 621. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for spinal surgery in Tallaght Hospital; and the procedures that are on hold through lack of funding for the HSE winter initiatives scheme that is impacting on these procedures [12643/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 622. To ask the Minister for Health when the introduction of the FreeStyle Libre device will be made available on the long-term illness scheme to all type 1 diabetes patients based on clinical need [12644/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 670. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by a person (details supplied); if his attention has been further drawn to the waiting time for a first appointment; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some patients have been referred to the Mater Hospital; and when a new surgeon will be in place in Tallaght Hospital. [12901/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mobile Telephony Use (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 781. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to make it mandatory for persons to produce photo identification in order to buy a SIM card for a mobile phone. [11912/18]

Diaspora Issues: Statements (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: I wish to share time with Deputy Ó Broin. There are approximately 70 million citizens across the globe who claim Irish roots and a link to Ireland. While it is a small island, we are a considerable nation scattered across the continents. Over the centuries, generations of Irish have been forced to leave our homeland to find work and the opportunities to make a better future for...

Diaspora Issues: Statements (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: The lack of opportunity, promotion and work forced hundreds of thousands of our citizens to emigrate over the past ten years. This was exacerbated by the austerity measures implemented by Fine Gael and Labour. Many of our young people, who lost their jobs or had no opportunity to build a life or career here, left. Then, just like now, there was no expectation among large sections of our...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: I welcome the Minister and the Minister of State. I wish to start on a negative note, which will be of no surprise to the Minister. Members yesterday received a briefing note from the Department which outlined that the overall gross Estimate for Votes 27 and 28 is €738 million, as the Minister stated, but we have no independent analysis of how that money is being spent. I have...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: A 50% increase in the allocation for diaspora affairs is substantial, but we do not get a sense of where it is being spent. That is the difficulty.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: The Department is supposed to obtain the agreement of this committee, but if the committee does not have the necessary skills or the time to do so, it is a meaningless rubber-stamping job. In the years I have been a member of the committee we have simply rubber-stamped the spending of huge amounts of money, the expenditure of which was not really assessed by the committee. I am not saying...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: I was going to ask about the increase in pay, but it has been indicated that this programme has to do with Brexit. As section B.3 relates to the treaty, does it cover the issue of Ireland's involvement in the Permanent Structured Co-operation, PESCO, arrangement? In section B.4 there is a 185% increase in spending compared with the figure for 2017. Supposedly, it is to inform and engage...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: I wish we had more information there. I am fine with it but I would like to know exactly where, by organisation, the money is going. One does not get a sense of that at all.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: I have a query about subhead A5. Are we taking that now?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: Subheads A1 and A2 are fine. With regard to A3 and the Africa section, I understand the focus is on the least developed countries, LDCs. Ireland met the UN target of spending at least 0.15% of its GNI on overseas development to LDCs in 2015. This does not seem to have happened in 2017. Will the Minister of State confirm that the target will be met in 2018? Do the figures include any...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: What about the least developed countries in Africa and meeting the target?