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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Impact of Conflict in Syria: Discussion. (9 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: I ask members, witnesses and people in the Visitors Gallery to ensure their mobile telephones are turned off for the duration of the meeting as they cause interference with the broadcast of proceedings. I welcome the representatives of Concern - Mr. Ros O'Sullivan, emergency directorate, and Mr. Peter Doyle, desk officer for Syria and Lebanon; GOAL - Mr. Jonathan Edgar, chief operations...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Impact of Conflict in Syria: Discussion. (9 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Ms McKenna. We are taking a slightly different order. I call Mr. Ros O'Sullivan, medical response co-ordinator with Concern.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Impact of Conflict in Syria: Discussion. (9 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: Thank you, Mr. O'Sullivan. I now call Mr. Barry Andrews of GOAL.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Impact of Conflict in Syria: Discussion. (9 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: Thank you, Mr. Edgar. I will now take questions from members, beginning with Deputy Brendan Smith.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Impact of Conflict in Syria: Discussion. (9 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister of State will attend next week's meeting and will concentrate to a considerable extent on chemical weapons.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Impact of Conflict in Syria: Discussion. (9 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: There have been many questions asked and we all fully appreciate the work being done by aid agencies, as well as the courage shown in keeping the issue to the fore and getting involved, as members have noted. We must all learn from the issues. Confilcts of this nature come up again and again, and in the past we have seen war in Bosnia and Iraq. There are sensitivities which accompany...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Impact of Conflict in Syria: Discussion. (9 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: We are coming to the end of the meeting. I do not wish to cut anybody short but we are coming to the end. In 15 minutes I must be a different location, namely, in the House. I am sorry about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Impact of Conflict in Syria: Discussion. (9 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: A telephone is interfering with the sound.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Impact of Conflict in Syria: Discussion. (9 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the witnesses from each of the organisations and congratulate them on their work, commitment and continued perseverance in a very difficult and trying situation.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: Deputy Kelleher's concern for the Labour Party is very touching.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: Deputy Kelleher's concern is touching.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (10 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 22. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total number of net new jobs created in each of the past 12 months to date in both the manufacturing and services sectors; the extent to which it is expected to capitalise further in this regard in the coming year, sector by sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42703/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (10 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 31. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will indicate based on the experience of the past two and a half years, the extent to which he expects innovation and technology to play a significant part in the maintenance of existing jobs and the creation of new job opportunities in future years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42704/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Issues (10 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of apprenticeships made available throughout the country in each of the past five years to date; the extent to which this has met the demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42791/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (10 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he has become aware of a shortage of apprenticeships throughout the public and the private sector with particular reference to the need to meet the on-going requirements of the jobs market in terms of specific skills; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42942/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (10 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which his Department has dialogues with other Government Departments with a view to the encouragement of apprenticeships in the public and private sectors and thereby facilitating young unemployed job seekers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42943/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (10 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if and when a higher education grant will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42959/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (10 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 95. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which his Department has studied any contributory causes to job losses in the manufacturing sector in the course of the past eight years; if costs have been a factor; if so, to what extent and the precise elements of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42937/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (10 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 96. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in the context of the total number of extra new jobs created in each of the past two years to date, the extent to which innovation and technology played a part, in respect of both manufacturing and services sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42938/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (10 Oct 2013)

Bernard Durkan: 101. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will set out year on year the total number of jobs lost throughout the economy, in both manufacturing and services sectors, in each of the years 2007 to date; the number of new jobs created in each year over the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42945/13]