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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: Normally we get three people ask questions and the witnesses can then reply. They have given us a broad and comprehensive view of the workload in which they are involved in regard to victims. They said some victims want to know information while others do not, some people feel let down and that some structures are lacking. I am conscious that many political leaders are sitting down today...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: A number of people have indicated they wish to speak. I will take a group of them and then come back to the witnesses. I am conscious the witnesses need to leave at a certain time and I ask them to indicate when they have had enough questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: In her opening statement Ms Thompson quoted from the Good Friday Agreement: "The achievement of a peaceful and just society would be a true memorial to the victims of violence." I thank the witnesses for their invitation to meet the Victims and Survivors Forum, which the committee will certainly consider. The witnesses and their commission's independent voice and effort to address the very...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (13 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is growing concern for the health and well-being of a number of political prisoners in Bahrain (details supplied); and if he will raise the issues with his Bahraini counterpart. [6949/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (13 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 531. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce a consistent broadband service to persons (details supplied) in Dublin 24. [6988/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (20 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount each local authority has budgeted for repair and maintenance of its housing stock in each year for the past four years; and the amount of housing stock each has in tabular form. [8226/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Data (20 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times each local authority has been to court as plaintiff against unauthorised developments in the past four years in tabular form. [8227/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Solar Energy Guidelines (20 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if solar farms need an environmental impact assessment before they can be built. [8228/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Asbestos Remediation Programme (20 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 602. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the assistance his Department is providing to families that have asbestos on their property to help mitigate against its future harm. [8229/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (21 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the business and human rights implementation group as required under the national plan on business and human rights 2017 to 2020 has been established; the composition of the group; and when it will commence its work. [8961/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (21 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has commissioned a baseline assessment of the legislative and regulatory framework pertaining to business and human rights here as committed to under the national plan on business and human rights 2017 to 2020; and when it will be completed. [8962/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: On page 131 of the programme for Government, reference is made to rapid response units and severe weather warnings. I congratulate the emergency services, the hospital staff who made it into work, residents who cleared their areas and utility companies. Does the Minister accept that there is an information deficit on this? I do not get any sense of urgency when we come into Dublin city...

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: Are we learning anything from these storms and weather difficulties? What will we do differently the next time?

Diaspora Issues: Statements (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: I wish to share time with Deputy Ó Broin. There are approximately 70 million citizens across the globe who claim Irish roots and a link to Ireland. While it is a small island, we are a considerable nation scattered across the continents. Over the centuries, generations of Irish have been forced to leave our homeland to find work and the opportunities to make a better future for...

Diaspora Issues: Statements (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: The lack of opportunity, promotion and work forced hundreds of thousands of our citizens to emigrate over the past ten years. This was exacerbated by the austerity measures implemented by Fine Gael and Labour. Many of our young people, who lost their jobs or had no opportunity to build a life or career here, left. Then, just like now, there was no expectation among large sections of our...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: I welcome the Minister and the Minister of State. I wish to start on a negative note, which will be of no surprise to the Minister. Members yesterday received a briefing note from the Department which outlined that the overall gross Estimate for Votes 27 and 28 is €738 million, as the Minister stated, but we have no independent analysis of how that money is being spent. I have...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: A 50% increase in the allocation for diaspora affairs is substantial, but we do not get a sense of where it is being spent. That is the difficulty.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: The Department is supposed to obtain the agreement of this committee, but if the committee does not have the necessary skills or the time to do so, it is a meaningless rubber-stamping job. In the years I have been a member of the committee we have simply rubber-stamped the spending of huge amounts of money, the expenditure of which was not really assessed by the committee. I am not saying...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: I was going to ask about the increase in pay, but it has been indicated that this programme has to do with Brexit. As section B.3 relates to the treaty, does it cover the issue of Ireland's involvement in the Permanent Structured Co-operation, PESCO, arrangement? In section B.4 there is a 185% increase in spending compared with the figure for 2017. Supposedly, it is to inform and engage...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: I wish we had more information there. I am fine with it but I would like to know exactly where, by organisation, the money is going. One does not get a sense of that at all.