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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Redeployment (26 May 2015)

Charles Flanagan: The information requested by the Deputy on the number of Civil Servants on secondment in 2014 from my Department is set out in the table below. Department /Organisation Number of officers Department of Finance 2 Department of the Taoiseach 9 Oireachtas 1 European External Action Service (EEAS) 6 International Atomic Energy Agency 1 United Nations 3 European Parliament 1 European...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Retirements (26 May 2015)

Charles Flanagan: Details of the Civil Servants who retired from my Department are set out in the table below. Retirements in 2014 Grade Number of officers in that grade Second Secretary 1 Assistant Secretary 4 Counsellor / Principal Officer 6 Senior Development Specialist 1 Architect 1 First Secretary / Assistant Principal 2 Staff Officer 1 Clerical Officer 5.9 ** FTE – full time equivalent

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Provision (27 May 2015)

Charles Flanagan: I can confirm that the organisation, Global Schoolroom, applied for funding under the Irish Aid Civil Society Fund in 2014 and was awarded a grant of €40,000 for one year for its project in India in 2014. Global Schoolroom applied again in 2015 for further funding but, on this occasion, was unsuccessful. The Civil Society Fund application and appraisal process is completed in an...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Provision (28 May 2015)

Charles Flanagan: I can confirm that the organisation, Global Schoolroom, applied for funding under the Irish Aid Civil Society Fund in 2014 and was awarded a grant of €40,000 for one year for its project in India in 2014. Global Schoolroom applied again in 2015 for further funding but, on this occasion, was unsuccessful. The Civil Society Fund application and appraisal process is completed in an...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (28 May 2015)

Charles Flanagan: On 19 May, I met with Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Theresa Villiers MP, in Dublin. We discussed a range of legacy and political issues. It was an opportunity also for the Secretary of State and me to discuss the current political impasse within the Northern Ireland Executive. I have remained in close contact with her since then on this matter, as I have also with the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Council Meetings (28 May 2015)

Charles Flanagan: I attended the most recent Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) meeting in Brussels on 18 May. At the Council, Foreign Ministers addressed the Middle East Peace Process. This was the first meeting of EU Foreign Ministers since the formation of the Israeli government, and in the run up to the meeting I had urged High Representative (HR) Mogherini to include the Peace Process on the Council...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: North South Ministerial Council (28 May 2015)

Charles Flanagan: The next Plenary meeting of the North South Ministerial Council is scheduled to take place in early June, and is to be chaired by the Taoiseach. It is likely that discussions will touch on financial and economic issues affecting both jurisdictions and that Ministers from North and South will together take the opportunity to review the work undertaken in the areas of North South...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Millennium Development Goals (9 Jun 2015)

Charles Flanagan: Global hunger and malnutrition are acknowledged as some of the most severe global development challenges today. Over 800 million people are estimated to be hungry in the world and under-nutrition is the biggest underlying cause of death in children under the age of five, causing 8,000 child deaths each day. The eradication of hunger and malnutrition is a cornerstone of Ireland’s...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (9 Jun 2015)

Charles Flanagan: The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, visited Ireland from 24 to 26 May last. This was the first official visit by the UN Secretary General since 2009 and it coincided with the launch of a programme of events to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Ireland’s membership of the UN. The visit provided an opportunity to showcase our unique contribution to the UN over the past...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (9 Jun 2015)

Charles Flanagan: Passport applications from the Irish Embassy in Madrid were issued within 20 working days up until the end of March 2015. Due to a surge in demand for passports throughout the entire passport service, it is currently taking six to seven weeks to turn around passport applications for Irish missions. In relation to the passport application submitted by the applicant, her application was not...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Jun 2015)

Charles Flanagan: The Passport Rapid Renewal Service was introduced in 2014 in the Molesworth Street passport office in order to facilitate urgent travel in a limited number of cases. The Rapid Renewal Service is located in the Molesworth Street office because that office has both a public counter and a production machine. Cork passport office has a public office, but does not possess a production machine....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (9 Jun 2015)

Charles Flanagan: At present, Ireland’s diplomatic network includes 61 Embassies, seven multilateral missions, 11 Consulates General and one Representative office. The scale and presence of the network is considered by the Government on an ongoing basis. Any decision to adjust the State’s external representation, including the opening of missions, will have regard to national priorities and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Death Penalty (9 Jun 2015)

Charles Flanagan: The Government remains very concerned about this case. The former Irish Ambassador accredited to Pakistan (from Ankara, Turkey) conveyed our concern at this conviction on a number of occasions to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad, most recently in early November 2014. In the course of his meetings there in November 2014, he met with a senior Pakistani Foreign Ministry...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Seirbhísi trí Ghaeilge (9 Jun 2015)

Charles Flanagan: Tá mo Roinn tiomanta do sheirbhís chuimsitheach trí Ghaeilge a chur ar fáil agus tá sí ag ullmhú a dara scéim teanga faoi Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla 2003 faoi láthair. Déanfaidh an scéim cur síos ar mholtaí chun a chinntiú go bhfuil seirbhís níos leithne, ar chaighdeán níos fearr, trí...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Historical Conflicts (9 Jun 2015)

Charles Flanagan: I refer the Deputy to my answers to recent questions on this issue in which I set out the Government’s position in detail, including in relation to this year’s centenary commemorations. The Irish Government has never taken a position on this issue, believing that it is not in a position to adjudicate on this contentious matter, involving the consideration of complex legal...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (9 Jun 2015)

Charles Flanagan: In early June 1997, a number of weeks after entering office as British Prime Minister, Tony Blair went on record with the following statement: “The famine was a defining event in the history of Ireland and of Britain. It has left deep scars. That one million people should have died in what was then part of the richest and most powerful nation in the world is something that still...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (9 Jun 2015)

Charles Flanagan: This passport application has been received and approved, and the passport has been printed. This passport will be dispatched to Ottawa on Friday 12 June 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (9 Jun 2015)

Charles Flanagan: In order to determine the progress of the application in the case of the person mentioned, the Passport Service requires specific details pertaining to the applicant in order to trace it. The passport application for the mother has been approved and will be dispatched to Ottawa this week.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Millennium Development Goals (9 Jun 2015)

Charles Flanagan: This year, Ireland is playing a strong role in the work for global agreement in three major international conferences on sustainable development. The Conferences are interlinked. They are on Financing for Development, in Addis Ababa in July, on a new framework for global development at the UN in New York in September and on a new climate change agreement in Paris in December. The aim is to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Provision (9 Jun 2015)

Charles Flanagan: In response to the earthquakes in Nepal, the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade opened its Consular Emergency Response Centre in Dublin and in concert with the Embassy of Ireland in New Delhi, India, which is accredited to Nepal, provided consular assistance to some 170 Irish citizens who were in the region at the time. All Irish citizens may register their details and presence in...