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Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (3 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 45: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the Health Information and Quality Authority will begin their public consultation on standards for oversight of the Health Service Executive child protection services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32516/11]

Private Members' Business - Promissory Notes: Motion (8 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We want our money back.

Private Members' Business - Promissory Notes: Motion (8 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Deputy should come over and join us.

Written Answers — General Practitioner Services: General Practitioner Services (8 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health if the study currently being undertaken by him regarding the numbers of general practitioners required in the State will also cover the issue of location, recognising that GP and primary care services are unevenly spread; when this report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33023/11]

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Can we have a simple statement in reply?

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: A Cheann Comhairle, on a point of order-----

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Whip of the Labour Party has made a statement-----

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will quote Deputy Stagg on that statement.

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Has the Taoiseach nothing to say on this issue?

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Deputy Emmet Stagg, the Whip of the Labour Party, is speaking for the Taoiseach. He reckons they are being released today. Will the Taoiseach confirm that?

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Deputy Stagg is representing the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Deputy Emmet Stagg said that they are being released today. Will the Taoiseach confirm that?

Written Answers — Sport and Recreational Development: Sport and Recreational Development (9 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the role he sees for sport in the promotion of the national image; how he intends to ensure this is realised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33406/11]

Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 2: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the profound concerns of international human rights organisations regarding the implications of the Peru Colombia Trade Agreement as it stands; and if he will bring the proposed agreement before Dáil Éireann for debate and clarification. [33846/11]

Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Creighton. I welcome the fact that she acknowledged the concerns the Government shares on the human rights situation in Colombia, which is quite profound. Even with the arrival of the new administration of President Santos, the human rights problems have not eased all that much. In the first year of his presidency, more human rights defenders were...

Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is it the case that we are not forcefully ensuring that this ends with a proper dialogue? Are we too hasty? Is there quite a road to go yet before Colombia and Peru, and particularly Colombia, have reached the human rights bar that we seek?

Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: For example, countries in the Balkans and Eastern European Baltic states applying for membership of the European Union have had to go through a process over a period and have had to reach an acceptable standard of human rights, not to mention economic competency, to be accepted. My concern is that it is clear the situation in Colombia is still serious. I listened to a presentation from a...

Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The organisations that signed up to the excellent document I hold are internationally respected and very much respected in Ireland: Christian Aid, CAFOD, Oxfam GB, SCIAF and Trócaire. These organisations recommend that we do not proceed and I urge the Government to follow their lead.

Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Two issues arise, the first of which the Israeli labelling after the 2000 agreement between the EU and Israel, and the deal in recent years where products from the Palestinian territories are labelled as from West Bank to allow the Palestinian territories to develop economic activities. In the middle, produce from illegal settlements that are against various UN resolutions and which Ireland...

Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: They will be in the supplementary contribution.