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Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: Who authorised the briefings?

Catalonia: Statements (24 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: As other speakers, I welcome the guests to the Public Gallery. It is good that people are sitting down together. The argument we are putting forward is that people do not only need to sit together, they also need to talk. I have previously raised with the Minister my deep concerns that in the build up to the independence referendum in Catalonia on 1 October there were unprecedented attacks...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: As the Chairman indicated, I submitted an amendment that was ruled out of order. The Bill is technical in nature and I welcome the explanation in the memorandum of the amendments the Minister is putting forward. On Second Stage I referred to my concerns about the provisions of this section. Those concerns were reflected in the disallowed amendment. Having read through the debate on Second...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: I will do so. The section seeks to amend the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 to provide that any period of time spent in the State where persons are exempt from immigration controls, as workers in embassies are, is not reckonable for residency in the context of a naturalisation application. The rights of embassy workers are important and should not be undermined or interfered...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: There are no amendments to the Bill and we welcome it. A total of 126 states are party to the Hague Convention and we want to ensure Ireland makes the necessary provisions in law to ensure it complies with obligations. I acknowledge the work of my colleague in the North, Ms Carál Ní Chuilín, who served as Minister with responsibility for culture, arts and leisure in the Six...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (24 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: 164. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Azerbaijan is refusing to release a person (details supplied) from an Azerbaijani prison; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the person's imprisonment is in violation of a clear verdict of the European Court of Human Rights which ordered the person's immediate release...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review (Resumed) (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: The message from the witnesses is very positive. Politicians and people at home are watching this and the witnesses are speaking in terms of being one of the best in the world. This is the type of language and message people want to hear. There was mention of a high-quality approach, being poverty focused and identifying with the world's poorest of the poor. The witnesses have a really...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review (Resumed) (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: I welcome Mr. Donoghue and congratulate him on the work he and the Kenyan representative have done to deliver these goals. There were mixed feelings about the millennium development goals, MDGs, that preceded the SDGs. Does Mr. Donoghue think we have learned any lessons from the MDGs and how do the SDGs differ from them? I wish to follow up on Senator Bacik's point about monitoring. Mr....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Emigrant Support Services (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for the cut to expenditure on a programme (details supplied); and the elements of this programme that will be affected by these cuts. [44408/17]

Pre-European Council: Statements (18 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: I pay my respects to the more than 300 people who were killed in the bomb attack in Mogadishu on Saturday. The attack was largely ignored in the news outlets here, but it is only right and fitting that we extend our sincere condolences to the families of all those who were killed and injured. I had intended to refer to the matter of Catalonia, but my colleague, Deputy Gerry Adams, has...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Protected Disclosures (18 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: 65. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason the report into allegations contained within protective disclosures relating to Casement Aerodrome fails to address that staff are at greater risk of serious illness as a result of their service at Baldonnel; and his views on whether these serious matters can only be properly assessed through a thorough health study and survey of...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Training (18 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: 66. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on reports that training for Defence Forces recruits has been reduced in a bid to reverse an exodus of personnel from the organisation; if the period of basic training for new recruits has been cut from 18 weeks to 16; and his views on whether this is preventing the Defence Forces from reaching minimal operational strength. [44040/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (18 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: 114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the reports that at least 4,000 refugees, including pregnant women, newborn babies and unaccompanied children, were caught up in violence between rival factions battling for control of Sabratha in Libya and had to be rescued; if his attention has been further drawn to an organisation's (details supplied)...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Repatriation Costs (17 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: 206. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to introduce a scheme that would financially support, with regard to the repatriation costs, the families of Irish citizens who have died abroad. [43459/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: I am very supportive of the transformative and life-saving work in which Irish Aid is involved. If any message goes out from this committee today it should be that aid does work. The biggest danger is apathy, ignorance and people believing that no matter how much money is pumped into these areas, in terms of outcomes, it still comes back to the problems of famine and so on. It is vital...

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: We know what we have discussed in here.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: Is it another rubber stamp job like CETA?

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: We do not discuss them in here.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (4 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: 113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the security situation of persons (details supplied); his views on these cases and the use of criminal charges to obstruct the work of human rights defenders; and if he will raise the issue with his Honduran counterpart. [42019/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Referendum in Catalonia (3 Oct 2017)

Seán Crowe: A referendum on independence is also a political issue, not solely a judicial one. The Spanish Government should respond to it through dialogue and negotiations, not by attacking voters and polling stations, a point on which there is agreement. The Catalan Government has requested mediation by the European Union on the issue. Does the Minister of State agree with that proposal and, more...