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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Expenditure (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is an important partner for Ireland's. international development programme. We will provide €4.5 million in unearmarked core funding to UNFPA in 2023, an increase of €500,000 on last year's core funding. Ireland also provides bilateral funding to UNFPA through our Embassies and their development programmes on the ground. In 2022,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Disaster Response (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: I propose to take Questions Nos. 552 and 555 together. The devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria in February have left over 50,000 dead and millions homeless. The UN estimates that the earthquakes have affected 26 million people across both countries, including people in Northwest Syria who are already extremely vulnerable after over a decade of armed conflict. On 10...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: I propose to take Questions Nos. 563 and 568 together. Ireland has been a long-standing champion of international efforts to combat hunger and malnutrition. During our term on the UN Security Council, Ireland consistently highlighted the links between conflict and hunger. We were a vocal and consistent advocate for action on the growing global hunger crisis. Last September Ireland called a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: Our international development policy A Better Worldsets out Ireland’s overarching goal as reaching the furthest behind first- those in the world’s poorest or most climate-exposed countries or those living in conflict settings, with a particular emphasis on protecting women and girls and a particular focus on sub- Saharan Africa. Ireland recognises the fundamental importance of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: The priorities for the Government’s international development programme are set out in our policy, A Better World, which was published in 2019 and which underlines our commitment to working for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. The focus is on reaching the furthest behind first, working with some of the world’s poorest countries and communities and those...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: 684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason students in a college (details supplied) who are carrying out their programme to be a primary school teacher must pay their own Gaeltacht fees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13039/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: 816. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the proposals in relation to ending the campaign to pursue former partners for unpaid child maintenance and where a former partner continues to pay support to their former partner/family; if this will be deducted from the payment to the person in receipt of social welfare; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: 1060. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are any plans to change the status of civil service who work in An Garda Síochána to public servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12730/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: 1282. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline proposals to abolish inpatient charges, if he will provide information (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12738/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: 1424. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information in relation to the population in acute psychiatric units and the number of long stay residents in the State; the number who have been in units over 2, 3, 5, 10 and over 15 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13408/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: 312. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide retinal screening facilities in locations in County Laois (details supplied); if not, if he will consider same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12010/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: The Government's international development policy, A Better World, was launched in 2019 and includes a commitment to the development of an initiative on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). The Department expects to launch this initiative in the second half of this year. Access to health services, including access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services, is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Passport Services (7 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: Before I respond to the Senator, I wish to put on record the fact that a phenomenal number of passports were issued by the passport service last year because demand was unprecedented. I expect demand this year will be equally as strong. I visited some of the staff in the service along with the call centre in Limerick recently where 48 people are worked flat out answering calls. On the day...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Passport Services (7 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Senator for the reasonable point he has made. The issue of security has, in a way, trumped the valid points he makes. One can also understand and appreciate cases, and I am sure we all know of such cases, where parents fall out and they have been through courts and through separation. Perhaps one parent is not allowed to have access to his or her own son or daughter, as the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (7 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: The Department of Foreign Affairs maintains and administers a voluntary roster of suitably skilled and vetted individuals who are available to participate at short notice in election observation missions, organised by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the European Union (EU). The current Election Observation Roster was established for a period of five years,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Disaster Response (7 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: The Government has provided €10 million in emergency assistance for the victims of the earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. This package of support includes over 130 tonnes of emergency supplies of tents, thermal blankets, solar lamps, hygiene kits, kitchen sets and water jerry cans, worth almost €1 million. This shipment did not include medical supplies. The response...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Sustainable Development Goals (7 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is a significant and ambitious framework, adopted by the world's leaders at the UN in 2015. The Government has taken a whole-of-Government approach to its implementation. Ireland’s Second National Implementation Plan for the SDGs, 2022 – 2024, was published in October 2022. It was...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (2 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: I understand the point the Deputy makes and the level of interest for the school meals programme is a clear sign of the need for its expansion. It is something the Minister for Social Protection is prioritising. The issues being highlighted today are being prioritised by the Minister. As part of the measures announced by the Government last week, access to the hot school meals is being...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (2 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: I am taking this matter on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys. I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. The school meals programme funds the provision of food to some 1,600 schools and organisations, benefitting 260,000 children. The objective of the programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to enable them to take full...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Fleming: The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) is an important partner for Ireland and we will provide €4.5 million in unearmarked core funding this year. This is an increase of €500,000 on last year's core funding to UNFPA. Ireland also provides bilateral funding to UNFPA through our Embassies and their development programmes on the ground. In 2022, Embassies funded UNFPA work in Ethiopia,...