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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff (6 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: The Croke Park Agreement encompassed all civil and public servants employed by my Department. No distinction was made between categories of civil servants under the Agreement.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (6 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: My Department is responsible for processing Foreign Birth Registration (FBR) applications for people who are born abroad and claim Irish Citizenship through a grandparent born in Ireland or through a parent who has claimed citizenship also through FBR, Naturalisation or Post Nuptial Citizenship. Demand for this service increased significantly as a result of the Brexit vote in the UK. In...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (6 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: My Department is responsible for processing Foreign Birth Registration (FBR) applications for people who are born abroad and claim Irish Citizenship through a grandparent born in Ireland or through a parent who has claimed citizenship also through FBR, Naturalisation or Post Nuptial Citizenship. Demand for this service increased significantly as a result of the Brexit vote in the UK. In...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (6 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: My Department is responsible for processing Foreign Birth Registration (FBR) applications for people who are born abroad and claim Irish Citizenship through a grandparent born in Ireland or through a parent who has claimed citizenship also through FBR, Naturalisation or Post Nuptial Citizenship.  Demand for this service increased significantly as a result of the Brexit vote in the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (6 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: My Department is responsible for processing Foreign Birth Registration (FBR) applications for people who are born abroad and claim Irish Citizenship through a grandparent born in Ireland or through a parent who has claimed citizenship also through FBR, Naturalisation or Post Nuptial Citizenship.  Demand for this service increased significantly as a result of the Brexit vote in the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (6 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: I have been advised by the Military Authorities that the Michael Collins commemorative medal is a commercial product of the Dublin Mint Office and as such, the question is not within my remit, and is not associated with the Defence Forces.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (6 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: The military authorities have advised that there are no specific appointments for the specialties of Emergency or Combat Medical Technicians (EMT/CMT), Paramedics or Advanced Paramedics, within the Chief of Staff’s Administrative Instruction CS4 establishment. The CS4 only provides only for 3* Medic appointments, for which there is no longer a qualification. Medic appointments are...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Funding (8 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: The Department of Foreign Affairs provided funding for projects in Co. Limerick in 2022 as outlined in the table. Project Organization Funding Amount Ubuntu Project University of Limerick €270,000 Future of European Studies Conference University of Limerick €10,000 ...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Funding (8 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: Vote 36 Defence is managed through a single programme with all operational outputs delivered from a single set of forces encompassing the Army, Air Corps and Naval Service. Expenditure by my Department is mainly on pay and allowances, operational costs and capital investment across the Defence Forces. My Department does not provide funding on a geographic basis, with the limited...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Policies (13 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: Over the past two and a half years, my Department has achieved much progress in a number of policy areas, framed by our commitments under the Programme for Government, and the Departmental Statement of Strategy. Throughout 2020 and for much of 2021, the COVID pandemic was the foremost global challenge, and my Department handled the most extensive repatriation operation in the history of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (13 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: The Department of Foreign Affairs raised the presence of a so-called 'Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station' with the Embassy of China in Ireland in October. My officials also consulted with other relevant stakeholders in Government on this matter. Neither the Chinese authorities nor Fuzhou/Fujian Province made a request in advance to the Department of Foreign Affairs to establish the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (13 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: The EU has condemned Belarus' involvement in Russia's unprovoked and unjustified military invasion of Ukraine. In response to the invasion, since late February, the EU has adopted a wide range of sanctions targeting both Russia and Belarus. These measures build on separate restrictive measures introduced by the EU following the fraudulent presidential elections in Belarus in August 2020. ...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: Ireland and Australia enjoy close diplomatic relations and our Embassies are engaged in a range of activities to deepen our engagement. In 2021, we celebrated 75 years of diplomatic relations with Australia. Ireland and Australia share a common outlook and shared values on many global issues. We also work closely with Australia in multilateral fora, at the UN and beyond. Bilateral...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (13 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: The Government’s approach to legacy and reconciliation in Northern Ireland has always been that it should be victim-centred, with the starting point the approach agreed by both Governments and the Executive parties in the Stormont House Agreement, further endorsed in the Fresh Start and New Decade, New Approach Agreements. The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation)...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (13 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: My Department is responsible for processing Foreign Birth Registration (FBR) applications for people who are born abroad and claim Irish Citizenship through a grandparent born in Ireland or through a parent who has claimed citizenship also through FBR, Naturalisation or Post Nuptial Citizenship. Demand for this service increased significantly as a result of the Brexit vote in the UK. In...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (13 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: My Department is responsible for processing Foreign Birth Registration (FBR) applications for people who are born abroad and claim Irish Citizenship through a grandparent born in Ireland or through a parent who has claimed citizenship also through FBR, Naturalisation or Post Nuptial Citizenship. Demand for this service increased significantly as a result of the Brexit vote in the UK. In...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Policies (13 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: The Programme for Government contains an ambitious range of commitments concerning the Defence sector that my Department will continue to implement over the lifetime of the Programme. One of the key commitments was to establish a Commission on the Defence Forces. On the 15th December 2020, the Government approved terms of reference and the membership of an independent Commission on the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: I am informed by the military authorities that it was not possible to collate the required information within the timeframe available.  I shall provide the information to the Deputy once it becomes available.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: The Specialised Instructors Allowance for Officers was bought out under the Public Service Agreement 2013-2016 (the Haddington Road Agreement), with the agreement of RACO. There was a negotiated buy-out, essentially, of that specialist instructor allowance under a pay round discussion and negotiation. It is estimated that the cost of reinstatement would be in the region of...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 Dec 2022)

Simon Coveney: Candidates applying for positions in the Defence Forces are required to meet specific criteria for military service, as laid down in Defence Forces Regulations, made pursuant to the Defence Act 1954, as amended and extended. The vision standards required for entry to the Defence Forces, as provided for in Defence Force Regulations, include that applicants colour vision must be...