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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (23 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: 46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the fact that a person's (details supplied) trial was postponed for the sixteenth time on 12 November 2016 and that the person is being charged in a mass trial and has no hope of receiving a fair trial; his further views on the fact that the next trial date will be on 13 December 2016, the same day as the person's 21st...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undocumented Irish in the USA (23 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: 52. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the supposed 50,000 undocumented Irish citizens living in the USA, particularly since the recent US election; if his Department is supporting organisations in the country that are assisting the undocumented Irish; and if he will raise the issue with his American counterpart. [36311/16]

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] - Thirty-Fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: I tabled a similar Bill in the previous Dáil that was supported by members of what is now the Independent Alliance. I hope that they will be consistent and vote in favour of this Bill next week rather than the Government's weak amendment, which is a continuation of the status quoand the undermining of Irish neutrality. In the 2003 version of this Bill, we got the support of the Labour...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Provision (29 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: 357. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) who is being detained in York County Prison, Pennsylvania, USA, will be deported; and if his Department is providing them with consular assistance. [36875/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (29 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: 367. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to Article 155 of the Egyptian constitution which allows President Sisi, with his cabinet's approval, to issue pardons to prisoners; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that President Sisi has used Article 155 four times in 2016, resulting in 859 prisoners being released, with the most...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (1 Dec 2016)

Seán Crowe: 194. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the killing of a person (details supplied); if his attention has been further drawn to increasing levels of intimidation and violence human rights defenders face in Guatemala and the impunity that surrounds these crimes; and if he will raise the person's case and Ireland’s concerns for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recent Actions of Government of Turkey: Motion (1 Dec 2016)

Seán Crowe: I move:That the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence:- is extremely concerned about the Turkish Government's intensified crackdown against the political opposition, Kurdish civilians, the media, educators and civil society; - believes that the Turkish Government is disregarding the rule of law and democratic processes; - condemns the arrest and detention...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Member States' Position on UK Withdrawal from EU: Maltese Ministry for Foreign Affairs (7 Dec 2016)

Seán Crowe: I bid Ms Mizzi a céad míle fáilte, a hundred thousand welcomes. Like other speakers I wish her every success in Malta’s Presidency of the EU for the first six months of 2017. We have had a number of guest speakers coming before the committee and prior to the Brexit vote some of us met with several British politicians who were for and against the issue. Many of the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (13 Dec 2016)

Seán Crowe: 353. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the increase in the assassination of human rights defenders, HRDs, in Colombia and regarding ongoing threats and intimidation against them (details supplied); and if he will call on the Colombian government to immediately implement the protection mechanisms for HRDs that are enshrined in the peace accords and in national law....

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2016)

Seán Crowe: We proposed legislation.

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2016)

Seán Crowe: The Government's responses are not working.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (14 Dec 2016)

Seán Crowe: Following on from the Stormont House Agreement, the Irish and British Governments came to an agreement to establish the Independent Commission on Information Retrieval, ICIR. The ICIR agreement was signed by the Irish Minister in 2015 and laid before the Oireachtas in January 2016. The objective of the ICIR was to enable victims and survivors to seek and privately receive information about...

Pre-European Council: Statements (14 Dec 2016)

Seán Crowe: Deputy Martin should have repeated the rest of my comments.

Pre-European Council: Statements (14 Dec 2016)

Seán Crowe: Brexit is not the only cause of uncertainty in EU. The Italian people rejected a referendum on constitutional change on 4 December last and the Government of Matteo Renzi subsequently resigned. On the same day, an independent candidate just about beat a far-right candidate in the Austrian presidential election. As Deputy Adams has mentioned, the Spanish authorities are threatening to...

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2016)

Seán Crowe: On a similar note, I wrote to the Minister on this issue last summer and I got a reply. This issue has been highlighted by people who have had bad experiences travelling in rickshaws. We know from other jurisdictions of the outrageous charges being demanded of people by the drivers of rickshaws. Rickshaws are not only a Dublin phenomenon, their use is spreading to other areas. Other...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Legislation (17 Jan 2017)

Seán Crowe: 120. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the vetting arrangements that are in place in accordance with section 15 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997; if she will confirm that requests for information from a housing authority are processed by the superintendent in charge of the district wherein the subject of the request resides and that they are dealt with on a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (17 Jan 2017)

Seán Crowe: 123. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to difficulties being experienced by the Garda authorities in 2016 in responding to local residents in the Tallaght and Rathfarnham areas due to the non-availability of a car or no garda being available to respond to phone call requests in both Tallaght and Rathfarnham garda stations; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Property (17 Jan 2017)

Seán Crowe: 353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the lengthy delay and difficulties being experienced by a sports club and a school (details supplied) and on a wall and pitch development project on part of his Department's lands; the cause of the delay; and if he will attempt to resolve the delay in the project receiving permission that would benefit the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Religious Persecution (17 Jan 2017)

Seán Crowe: 707. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the armed raid conducted by Pakistani police on the administrative offices at the headquarters of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Rabwah, Pakistan on 5 December 2016 and that according to media reports the police caused needless damage to property and arrested four persons; if his attention has been...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Catalan Referendum (17 Jan 2017)

Seán Crowe: 685. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the prosecution of a person (details supplied). [41238/16]