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Nuclear Proliferation (29 Mar 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: It is important to distinguish between the different circumstances of Iran and Israel, especially with regard to compliance with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, NPT. Under the NPT, Iran has committed not to engage in a nuclear weapons programme. However, it has repeatedly failed to live up to its international treaty obligations and it is in breach of a succession of UN security...

Nuclear Proliferation (29 Mar 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: We have had this discussion at the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs. I respect the Deputy's viewpoint on this matter. However, I simply cannot agree with the view that Iran has been responsible in meeting its international obligations. I am unsure of the Deputy's views on the integrity of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, but I suspect I have some indication based on...

Nuclear Proliferation (29 Mar 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: On whether the evidence exists, when I visited Vienna recently as part of a visit to the United Nations' Human Rights Council, I also met the deputy director of the IAEA, who had just visited Iran. It is clear that he and the others in the agency are people of enormous integrity who are professionals in their field and they have carried out countless site visits. With regard to the report,...

Foreign Conflicts (29 Mar 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: I will echo the Tánaiste's sentiments as we are all under some time pressure with prior commitments this evening. I share the widespread concern that Joseph Kony remains at large in central Africa. I welcome recent public initiatives to highlight the fact that he has not been held to account for the atrocities which he and his so-called Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, committed over two...

Foreign Conflicts (29 Mar 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: I agree with the Deputy's sentiment about the power of social media. This is something we saw in the Arab Spring in particular. I hope it will assist people who otherwise might not have a voice or be in a position to draw the attention of world leaders to issues of such grave international significance. The European Union is constantly co-ordinating and liaising, especially in this region,...

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (29 Mar 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: I am aware of the reported comments of Professor Vital Moreira when he led a European Parliament delegation to Kenya and Zambia last week in order to discuss the ongoing negotiations for Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States. The EU has been engaged in the negotiation of a series of new trade and development agreements...

Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union) Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Apr 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: I thank the Tánaiste for sharing time to allow me this opportunity to address the House on this crucial Bill. It goes without saying this is extremely important legislation as it will facilitate the holding of a referendum on the stability treaty on 31 May. While the debate began many weeks ago on the airwaves, it is appropriate that we begin the formal debate in the Houses of the...

EU Presidency: Statements (9 May 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: And grow money on trees.

EU Presidency: Statements (9 May 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: As Minister of State with responsibility for European Affairs, I am pleased to speak in the Chamber today on the occasion of Europe Day and to have the opportunity to outline the challenges and opportunities presented by holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of next year. The Presidency is a responsibility imposed on all member states in rotation to...

EU Presidency: Statements (9 May 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: I will try to reply to them all. I could spend the 20 minutes answering those questions-----

EU Presidency: Statements (9 May 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: -----but I will limit the time I spend replying. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle can rule me out of order on that. I will begin with the question on the community method of decision making, something about which I have spoken repeatedly for the past year and about which I feel strongly. I chair the interdepartmental group in government preparing our priorities for the Presidency. This is...

EU Presidency: Statements (9 May 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: I will come back to the questions on Iceland and development aid.

EU Presidency: Statements (9 May 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: With regard to the question on plan A I am still waiting for Sinn Féin to give us plan B and I look forward to the day when Deputy Mac Lochlainn, his leader and all front line advocates of a "No" vote will give us their plan B and tell us exactly with what they propose to replace the ESM. Will I commit to not ratifying the ESM? Certainly not. The Government is committed to ratification...

EU Presidency: Statements (9 May 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: It is not €11 billion.

EU Presidency: Statements (9 May 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: Do you understand "cap"?

EU Presidency: Statements (9 May 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: Is that the European agenda? That is outrageous. Forty years of developing workers' rights-----

EU Presidency: Statements (9 May 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: -----and you do not even have the grace to acknowledge it.

EU Presidency: Statements (9 May 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: To deal with the last point, in the 1990s we more than halved our debt to GDP ratio while the debt was increasing through growth and inflation.

EU Presidency: Statements (9 May 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: To suggest there must be some sort of an armageddon to try to reduce our debt to GDP ratio is nonsense. With regard to the Deputy's threats on the potential of being 1% off, if he has his way our growth forecast could be much worse than 1% off target. The type of irresponsible posturing by him over the past number of weeks is much more likely to cost us growth and jobs and investment in...

EU Presidency: Statements (9 May 2012)

Lucinda Creighton: I know the Deputy does not like business people or people who create jobs or any type of stimulus to the economy other than the money he believes grows on trees, but why is it that pretty much everybody in the State who is involved in business or in any sense contributes to the economy or creates jobs advocates a "Yes" vote? It is extraordinary. It is an amazing coincidence that IBEC, the...