Results 5,041-5,060 of 8,654 for speaker:Seán Crowe

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Missing Persons (14 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 305. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 7 February 2017 would have marked the twenty-fifth birthday of a person (details supplied) who went missing in the south of Spain in the summer of 2008 and that a vigil was held outside Dáil Éireann on that date; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that members of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (14 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 306. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) who has been incarcerated in Evin prison in Iran and who has been reportedly sentenced to death; and if he will raise this case with his Iranian counterpart. [6921/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Litter Pollution (14 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 594. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if Kildare County Council can publish the names of those charged and convicted of committing littering offences. [6849/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fisheries Protection (14 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 595. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if steps are in place to cease the proliferation of dace fish here. [6852/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Bord na Móna (14 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 603. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the possible reduction in the number of jobs in Bord na Móna. [6851/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Passport Service: Senator Robbie Gallagher (9 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: I have listened to Senator Gallagher expressing his frustration about the failure of the recovery to have an impact on parts of rural Ireland, including County Monaghan. I am conscious that two days after the Brexit vote, a passport office in Belfast ran out of passport forms and had to place an emergency order for more forms. According to figures we have been given, 46,257 passport...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Passport Service: Senator Robbie Gallagher (9 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: When we are sending our letter to the Minister, perhaps we can ask him to tease out the idea of locating a passport office in Belfast. It is clear from the number of applications coming from Northern Ireland that there is a substantial level of demand there. It should not be a case of either Monaghan or Belfast. We should be able to make the case for both.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Consular Service: Motion (9 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: Senator Daly raises an important issue. I do not know the criteria for the selection of an honorary consul. One has an idea that in other countries that the selection of a consul is based on whether the person was a fundraiser for the party in government. I am not saying that is the way it operates in Ireland. I do not know the criteria of how we select a consul or the criteria for where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Consular Service: Motion (9 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: Just before we end the discussion, it is important that at some stage we put on the record our appreciation for all those people in those positions. We do not do that often enough. There can be a huge workload involved in just one case, not to mention a group of cases. Again, I would like to know the criteria but I can understand the reluctance to appoint people because if one wrong person...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Visa Agreements (9 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 150. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to possible changes to the J1 visa scheme for Irish citizens; if he discussed the issue on his recent visit to the USA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6525/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Immigration Controls (9 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 151. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if during his visit to the USA he raised the recent immigration regulation changes regarding the banning of citizens from seven Muslim majority countries from entering the USA; if he criticised the proposal; the details of the meetings he had; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6526/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (9 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 152. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Europe’s five largest pension funds (details supplied) have €7.5 billion invested in companies with business activities in and around illegal settlements in the Palestinian territories; and his views on whether all pension funds should disinvest from companies with business...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Investigations (9 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 153. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in January 2017 at least 13 human rights defenders were killed in Colombia (details supplied); and if he will raise this issue with his Colombian counterpart. [6528/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 181. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a decree that was passed by the Romanian Parliament that could free dozens of officials jailed for corruption (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6239/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (8 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 182. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has read a report from the Cairo Institute of Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) which states that a person (details supplied) and thousands of other peaceful protesters are being illegally imprisoned under the colonial era Assembly Law (Law 10/1914), that CIHRS has discovered was repealed on 30 January 1928; his views on the fact that...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 303. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied). [5534/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Immigration Controls (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 343. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the executive order signed by US President, Donald Trump, which bans citizens from seven Muslim majority countries from entering the USA; his further views on whether this order may violate the USA's obligations to accept persons seeking asylum on humanitarian grounds under the Geneva Convention; if he will examine the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 340. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the comments of the British Secretary of State, Mr James Brokenshire, on the 45th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when he intensified the British Government's public opposition to properly dealing with the past and that the British Government is trying to write itself out of its responsibility for the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 341. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a series of deaths at the Moria asylum camp on the Greek island of Lesbos and that aid agencies have long complained regarding the poor conditions at the camps; and if his Department will provide assistance to improve conditions in the camp. [5606/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Israeli Settlements (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 342. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to media reports that the EU Ambassadors to Palestine 2016 annual report said that the number of illegal Israeli settlers moving to occupied East Jerusalem is growing by 3% a year and that it blamed Israel for violence in occupied East Jerusalem; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the...