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Priority Questions: Humanitarian Access (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: A key aspect on which we have not touched in dealing with the humanitarian crisis is the increase in the number of Syrian refugees relocating and resettling here. Today my colleague, Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh, organised a briefing in the AV room with the Irish Refugee Council which is concerned that Ireland is not doing enough to assist refugees. In the past two weeks we have...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: 33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if officials in his Department have met with the new general manager of a charity (details supplied); if he will confirm that Irish Aid funding to the charity is still suspended; and if this is due is due to the ongoing investigations into the allegations of bribery and bid rigging against the charity. [31793/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Controls (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: 39. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the comments made by the Israeli ambassador to Ireland in an interview with a newspaper (details supplied); if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that the ambassador stated he could not guarantee that Irish passports would not be forged again by the Israeli secret service, Mossad; if his...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: 48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the announcement by the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo that it will push back the presidential election which was due to happen in November 2016 to April 2018; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that this will keep the incumbent President, Mr. Joseph Kabila, in power until...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Expenditure (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: 52. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department is still committed to ensuring Ireland reaches the goal of spending 0.7% of gross national income on overseas development assistance; and, if so, if he will detail when and the way in which his Department plans on reaching this goal. [31792/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: 56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the worsening situation in Yemen and that the UN estimates the war there has killed almost 6,900 persons, wounded more than 35,000 and displaced at least 3 million since March 2015; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that fighter jets belonging to the Saudi Arabia-led coalition have in...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: 341. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to Israel’s continued demolition of structures in Palestine that were built with EU funding which includes schools, houses and other important infrastructure; his plans to protect infrastructure in Palestine, particularly infrastructure that has been paid for with the help of Irish taxpayers, from...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: 597. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 12 October 2016 (details supplied), if she will provide clarification of the nature of the charge upon public funds envisaged in the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement, CETA; the basis for her determination that this constitutional provision is appropriate for ratifying CETA, in...

European Council: Statements (26 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: Hear, hear.

European Council: Statements (26 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: During the pre-Council statements, I raised the pressure the Parliament of Wallonia was under to ratify CETA. Many parties in Europe would see this decision by a small region as an irritant or democracy gone mad. I see it, however, as a victory for democracy and citizens all over Europe who have campaigned hard to defeat CETA. Speaking of democracy, it is also regrettable the Government...

European Council: Statements (26 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: Perhaps the Minister of State could ask about a note I had asked of the Taoiseach on the migration crisis. I have asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade at various venues if he would come up with a note. I believe the Taoiseach was indicating that he might be able to supply the House with that.

European Council: Statements (26 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: The migration crisis. The asylum process is clearly broken in Ireland and other European countries. There is a problem in Italy, for example, around the system there. There is a handful of people coming from Greece but there are clearly problems there. I, and other Members, meet people every day who are asking about what Ireland is doing with regard to the crisis. We would like to know...

European Council: Statements (26 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: Reference is also made to the fact that migration has dropped off but will the Minister of State confirm that the October death toll had reached the same as the death toll from October last year? We are now approaching November and we still have December coming up. With people taking much more dangerous routes to get into Europe, unfortunately more and more people are dying.

European Council: Statements (26 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: I asked a series of questions and I did not get one answer.

European Council: Statements (26 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: The Acting Chairman is asking for more questions, but we have not got answers to the first lot. It is crazy.

Calais Migrant Camp: Statements (2 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: Four, four, four and three.

Calais Migrant Camp: Statements (2 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: First, I am disappointed with the Ministers' speeches tonight. They have not captured the mood in the country. They certainly have not captured the mood of the view of Deputies on all sides of the House. We do not want to hear that, as a small country, we cannot do this. What people want to hear tonight is what we can do and we want to hear it from the Ministers before the end of this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Media Freedom in Turkey: National Union of Journalists (3 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: Is it the case that all those present at this meeting probably would be arrested if this discussion were taking place in Turkey? It is a candidate country for EU accession. We are discussing the arrest and treatment of journalists in Turkey and that is a reflection of what is happening in society there. Following the coup, the Turkish Government has been able to put forward excuses for what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Media Freedom in Turkey: National Union of Journalists (3 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: Mr. Carson indicated some requests of the Turkish Government. They all seem very reasonable. Perhaps after the meeting we could possibly agree a motion related to the letter. It requests the release of journalists and it was read into the record today. The requests involve nothing radical and conform to European norms with respect to how we would like to see journalists operate in a free...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Statement of Strategy: Motion (3 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: I think the proposal is entirely reasonable. The Green Paper on Defence wrongly states that Ireland's traditional policy of military neutrality has its origins in the country's declared neutrality during the Second World War. Many of us from a republican tradition argue that the Irish impulse to neutrality far predates that. We maintain it goes back to the time of Wolfe Tone. He produced...