Results 181-200 of 19,373 for speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 1272: To ask the Minister for Defence the details of the command and control structure of the EU battle groups; and the persons who would command Irish troops. [1641/05]

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 1273: To ask the Minister for Defence the regions and countries that fall outside the proposed 2,500 mile deployment zone for EU battle groups and the non-EU regions and countries that are included within it. [1642/05]

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 1275: To ask the Minister for Defence the persons with whom his Department officials are liaising with regard to Irish participation in EU battle groups; the persons who are on the interdepartmental committee dealing with this issue; when it was set up; the number of meetings it has conducted; and if he will report on its recommendations. [1644/05]

Written Answers — Northern Ireland Issues: Northern Ireland Issues (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 141: To ask the Taoiseach if, as part of his discussion with the DUP in the recent negotiations to secure that it abide by the principles of the Good Friday Agreement, the issue of loyalist paramilitary arsenals (details supplied) being put beyond use was part of that discussion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34111/04]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she will implement the National Disability Authority recommendations for establishing national standards in services for persons with disabilities. [34116/04]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 153: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the percentage of budget 2005 disability allocations which will pay for services for persons with disabilities; and the percentage which will go towards the assessment and appeals bureaucracy proposed under the Disability Bill 2004. [34117/04]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason she denied a request from the violence against women sector for a €7 million increase in funding earmarked for frontline services which would increase the budget allocation to €19 million in order to redress severe under-resourcing of these services in relation to demand; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 298: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to increase and ring-fence funding for frontline women's services by €7 million for 2005; and if the Government will establish funding security for the sector through multi-annual planning, as demanded by the non-governmental organisation Coalition on Violence Against Women. [1667/05]

Written Answers — Northern Ireland Issues: Northern Ireland Issues (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 433: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that none of the armed loyalist groups (details supplied) associated with a party (details supplied) has ever publicly disbanded, disarmed or called a cessation of armed actions against the nationalist people of Northern Ireland. [34113/04]

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 434: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will consider commissioning an investigation into the death toll from the Iraq war to enable the Irish people to more accurately evaluate the consequences of the Government policy of allowing the US military to use Irish airspace and airports in the prosecution of this war; and the number of dead and injured as a result of the Iraq...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 435: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he will take to ensure that all future discussions on overseas development aid and security at the OECD and at the Council of Ministers are informed by the human security concept to which the Government is committed by its membership of the Human Security Network. [34138/04]

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 436: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position advocated by Ireland in the high level OECD meeting in December 2004 regarding peace, security and development; his position on the DAC April 2003 discussion paper, A Development Co-operation Lens on Terrorism Prevention; his views on whether it is wrong to finance security and counter terrorism measures from already stretched...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 437: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress made since the January 2004 Council conclusions by which the Irish Presidency obtained a commitment from the EU to develop clear and objective criteria for the allocation of EU aid. [34140/04]

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 438: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he will take to ensure that poverty eradication remains the overarching goal of EU development assistance in the period 2007 to 2013. [34141/04]

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 439: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on whether the European Commission proposals on EU development spending in the Financial Perspectives 2007-2013 risk undermining the terms of the proposed EU constitutional treaty which recognises development co-operation as a policy area in its own right and defines poverty eradication as the overarching objective of EU...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 440: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the current European Commission proposals on EU development spending in the Financial Perspectives 2007-2013 (details supplied). [34143/04]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 462: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the points made by the Irish delegation to the Chinese Prime Minister during the recent trade mission to China; the specific points made on the ongoing occupation of Tibet; and the other human rights concerns raised. [1537/05]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 463: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason the Government cannot take a tougher line on human rights in China than the big EU countries as stated by the Taoiseach; and if this rule applied only to Irish policy on China or to all foreign policy. [1538/05]

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 475: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will reconsider the decision to take the additional €10 million pledged for tsunami disaster relief from the existing emergency humanitarian assistance budget, in view of the fact that the UN has urged countries to use new money and other countries such as Canada, Norway and Germany have done so. [1551/05]

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (26 Jan 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 481: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount of official tsunami relief aid delivered to date. [1557/05]