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- Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: How independent is the Deputy?
- Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Independent of what?
- Moriarty Report: Statements (14 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: This report is necessary, timely and extremely clear. It is damning, shocking and forensic. Above all, it is credible. The greatest respect we can give this report is to implement a programme of fundamental reforms to ensure the events outlined in its pages do not recur. We do not need gestures, verbiage or crass political narratives but action, delivery, legislation and follow through,...
- Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Some of us do not have the time.
- Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Hear, hear. The Opposition would accuse us if we did.
- Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (15 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 96 to 101, inclusive, together. As the Deputy is aware, I addressed this matter comprehensively in my reply to Priority Question Number 3 of 8 February 2007 and to subsequent supplementary questions. The case to which he refers in Questions 96, 97 and 101 relates to five Cuban citizens who were convicted in the US in 2001 on charges ranging from espionage to...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: He is at it all of the time.
- Order of Business (20 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: The Deputy obviously is not keeping her ear to the ground.
- Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (20 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Security and governance issues remain a serious concern in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but there have been some encouraging developments recently. The generally peaceful and orderly conduct of the 2006 Presidential and Parliamentary elections "the first democratic elections in more than forty years" was a tribute to the strong desire of the Congolese people for an end to conflict and a...
- Written Answers — Departmental Records: Departmental Records (20 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: I would refer the Deputy to my comprehensive reply to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1037 and 1040 on 31st January 2007 in relation to this matter. In that reply, I pointed out that I have no involvement in determining which files should be withheld under the National Archives Act; that is entirely a matter for Departmental officials. As I indicated in my previous reply, I am conscious of the...
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (20 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Under the Government's decentralisation programme, the Development Cooperation Directorate of the Department of Foreign Affairs will decentralise to Limerick. This is scheduled to take place during the second half of 2007 and will involve the relocation to Limerick of 124 posts. At present, 54 posts in the Directorate are filled by officers who have signalled their intention to decentralise...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Let the Taoiseach answer.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Be serious.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: The Deputies are not serious.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Exactly.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Deputy Cuffe should go off and buy some shares.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Deputy Cuffe should buy more shares in oil.
- Written Answers — Economic Partnership Agreements: Economic Partnership Agreements (21 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are trade agreements currently being negotiated between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of states. The mandate for the negotiation of EPAs comes from the legally-binding Cotonou Agreement, the central objective of which is that of "reducing and eventually eradicating poverty, consistent with the objectives of...
- Written Answers — Extraordinary Rendition: Extraordinary Rendition (21 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: I have made clear on a number of occasions my disappointment with the content of the Report of the Temporary Committee of the European Parliament on extraordinary rendition. In particular, the Committee's figure of 147 allegedly-suspicious flights is grossly inflated, as shown by the identification of only 3 suspicious flights by Senator Dick Marty as part of the Council of Europe's separate...
- Order of Business (22 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Was that brief?