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Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: I warmly welcome this Bill and commend my party colleague, Deputy Brady, for bringing it to the House. The Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, mentioned that other Bills are being prepared. I do not think anyone really cares what name is on the Bill. The most important thing is for legislation in this area to be moved through both Houses and to come into effect. The Minister of State...

Topical Issues Debate: Israeli Settlements (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: I welcome that the Irish representative in Ramallah will be visiting the community in the next couple of days. International pressure, when applied collectively, has an impact and can in some case halt these demolitions. Unfortunately, the number of demolitions is at an all-time high. Last year, there was a 96% increase and this year it seems to be at the same scale. It is almost as if...

Topical Issues Debate: Israeli Settlements (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: I am a bit disappointed that the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade is not able to be here. I presume there is some reason. Is there?

Topical Issues Debate: Israeli Settlements (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: No problem. The issue is the Israeli Government decision to illegally demolish 42 homes and businesses in the Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, which is between Jericho and Jerusalem. Last year, 2016, was a record year for the demolition and confiscation of Palestinian dwellings and livelihood structures in the Occupied West Bank by the Israeli army. Figures from the United Nations...

Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: We looked at the position across the water.

Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: Is the Sunday Independenta public document?

Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: The Deputy should tell us what he did when in government.

Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: That is Jack O'Connor of the Labour Party.

Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: I, like others, commend the Bill and I look forward to the debate. The Bill allows trade unions access to the workplace to meet their members regarding official trade union business. I am at a loss as to why anyone would oppose such a reasonable proposition. It is not something that is in any way radical. It may have been seen as radical 100 years ago but I would have thought the idea of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: I am primarily interested in finding out if the Minister raised concerns over the British Government's approach to Brexit and how it will impact and potentially violate the Good Friday Agreement, particularly with the North being forced to leave the EU against the express wishes of its people, and that it will also represent a major setback for the political process in the North. While I am...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his meeting with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mr. James Brokenshire, in Dublin on 15 February 2017; if he raised concerns over the British Government’s approach to Brexit and the way it might violate the Good Friday Agreement; if he discussed ensuring that Northern Ireland receives special...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Good Friday Agreement (22 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 22. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the comments of the Democratic Unionist Party leader, Arlene Foster, who stated that she would not support the introduction of an Irish language Act; furthermore, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a commitment to introduce this Act was explicitly stated and agreed in the internationally...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Good Friday Agreement (22 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: Voters in the North go to the polls on 2 March. Public confidence in the political institutions has been undermined by the DUP mishandling of the renewable heat incentive scheme scandal and allegations of corruption associated with the scheme. Recently, Arlene Foster said that the DUP will never accede to an Irish language Act. This is a corruption of the principles of the equality pillar...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Good Friday Agreement (22 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: I imagine we would all agree that the remarks made by Ms Foster are highly offensive to Irish speakers. She was also spectacularly wrong when she stated that more people speak Polish than Irish in the Six Counties. According to the last census in the North, a total of 184,898 spoke Irish compared with fewer than 20,000 who spoke Polish. This is being used as a distraction. We hear these...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Good Friday Agreement (22 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: Is the Minister concerned about the fact the Secretary of State, Mr. Brokenshire, is giving political cover on this issue? His remarks are a poke in the eye to Irish speakers. It is great for Arlene Foster to come out with remarks along the lines that people are entitled to use the Irish language. However, she is the architect of blocking recognition of the language and the British...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (22 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 47. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the fact that a person's trial (details supplied) has been postponed for the 19th time in view of the fact that the person has been convicted of no crime and his arbitrary detention and participation in a mass trial violates both Egyptian and international law; and if he will raise the case with the Egyptian Foreign Minister,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Catalan Referendum (22 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 37. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the pending prosecution of persons (details supplied) for facilitating a non-binding consultation on Catalan independence; and his views on whether the Spanish Government should resolve its disagreements with Catalan politicians, including on an independence referendum, through a process of mutual...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (22 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 38. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8686/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (22 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the bill passed by the Israeli Knesset that retroactively legalises thousands of illegal colonial settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and that such a move has been described by the Palestinian Government as legalised theft and an attempt to destroy the two state solution; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (22 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 150. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to reports that the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, endangered human rights defenders, HRDs, that attended the human rights council in Geneva in March 2013, by releasing their details to their governments; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that a press statement...