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Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (3 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: Does anyone else have questions on section A? I will take questions rather than statements.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (3 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: I remind members that we will have a special meeting on Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union on 17 July. If members have any questions on the issue they may put them at that meeting.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (3 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: That is a very contentious question for a Deputy from the mid-west. I call the Tánaiste.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (3 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: I welcome the announcement made today that Shannon Airport will get direct services to New York and Boston seven days a week. That is a good advantage for the mid-west region. We have completed programme A and will move on now to programme B, which relates to consular and passport services and services for Irish people abroad. I invite the Tánaiste to make a brief statement on this...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (3 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: I thank the Tánaiste. I wish to add my tribute to the officials in the Passport Office, who are doing a great job. They are very accommodating and it is good see passports are being processed in good time. I pay tribute to all staff in the passport offices of both Cork and Dublin.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (3 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: That completes programme B. We will move on to programme C, reconciliation and co-operation on this island. Tánaiste, do you wish to make a short statement?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (3 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: Thank you. Programme C has been completed. We now move to programme D, international peace and security and human rights. Tánaiste, will you make a brief statement?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (3 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: That completes programme D. We now move on to programme E, appropriations-in-aid. They are returned to the Exchequer and are not available to the Department. The level of fees in respect of, for example, passports and visas, which make up the vast bulk of the appropriations-in-aid, are set by statutory instrument. If there are no comments or questions I will proceed to Vote 27 -...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (3 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: I thank the Minister of State for his compliments.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (3 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: I thank the Tánaiste and the Minister for State for their attendance and for dealing so thoroughly with the matters raised by Deputies. I also thank the officials who accompanied them, namely, Mr. David Donoghue, Mr. Barrie Robinson, Mr. David Cooney, the Secretary General of the Department, Mr. Brendan Rogers, the director general of Irish Aid, Mr. Colm Ó Floinn, Ms Anne...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Message to Dáil (3 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade has completed its consideration of the following Estimates for public services for the year ending 31 December 2013: Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised), and Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised).

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (4 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: 239. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding an application for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32786/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (9 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the provision of special needs assistants services in school in County Clare; if the level of service will be maintained for the 2013/14 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32948/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications (9 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: 453. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33187/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (10 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: The draft minutes of the meeting of 3 July have been circulated to all members. Are the minutes agreed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (10 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: We were to get an update from the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (10 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: It might be better if the Senator did so. Are the minutes of the meeting of 3 July agreed? Agreed. I welcome a new member of the team, Mr. John Deady, who is joining us as an adviser from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He has huge experience in foreign affairs and trade and has served as an ambassador in a number of countries. Since Ms Olive Hempenstall left we have not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Unethical Organ Harvesting in China: Discussion (10 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: I remind witnesses, members and those in the gallery to ensure their mobile telephones are switched off completely for the duration of the meeting as they cause interference even on silent mode with the recording equipment in the committee rooms. From time to time members leave their telephones on and they cause interference, so I appeal to everyone to ensure they are switched off...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Unethical Organ Harvesting in China: Discussion (10 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: Is there any evidence of organ tourism out of Ireland to China?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Unethical Organ Harvesting in China: Discussion (10 Jul 2013)

Pat Breen: What about the UK?