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Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (10 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the core funding grant application of a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22186/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (11 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: 157. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts being made by the Government to protect and assist the LGBT community in Chechnya; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22411/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (11 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: 158. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether steps must be taken at international level to protect the LGBT community in Chechnya and to assist those who are being forced to flee the country due to sexual orientation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22412/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (11 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: 161. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts being made at national and international level to address the concerns raised by Palestinian prisoners that are currently on hunger strike as of 17 April 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22420/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (11 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: 162. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts being made to ensure that Palestinians that are incarcerated in prisons in Israel are afforded their human rights and are treated in a fair and humane manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22421/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implications of Brexit for Foreign Policy: Discussion (11 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: I will do my best, Chairman. It is difficult. I thank the witnesses. Both of their presentations show what we know, which is how complex this will be. It could lead us down any avenue. I will try to restrict myself to specific questions, the first of which is what does Britain want? My understanding from meetings is that it has no idea what it wants. I do not mean that in a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implications of Brexit for Foreign Policy: Discussion (11 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implications of Brexit for Foreign Policy: Discussion (11 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: I know. I have met them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implications of Brexit for Foreign Policy: Discussion (11 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank Professor Murphy for his comment.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Medical Negligence Cases (16 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: 98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to bring forward legislation on periodic payments for medical negligence cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23133/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Fire Service (16 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: 216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of local authorities that are utilising the auxiliary fire service resource within the Civil Defence to assist and supplement the permanent fire brigade service in view of the increase in grass, gorse and forest fires; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22773/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (16 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: 274. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider awarding a State pension on reaching retirement age to those persons who contracted hepatitis C and were unable to work due to their illness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23104/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Bodies Membership (16 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: 294. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on Taiwan's continued participation in the World Health Assembly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22777/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (16 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: 295. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has a policy of asking for a report on the way human rights, including the rights of women, are being improved in Saudi Arabia when visiting the country; if not, if this will be policy in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22852/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (16 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: 301. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on recent meetings he has had with his Saudi Arabian counterpart; the dates and times of meetings; the issues discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22846/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (16 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: 296. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he was last briefed by the Irish Ambassador to the UN regarding women's rights in Saudi Arabia; if these briefings are organised regularly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22851/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (16 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: 297. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or his officials were contacted by countries that did not want to support Saudi Arabia being appointed to the UN Commission on the Status of Women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22850/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (16 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: 298. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there was contact between Saudi Arabian officials and Irish officials prior to the vote on Saudi Arabia's membership on the UN Commission on the Status of Women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22849/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (16 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: 299. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if information on Saudi Arabia's human rights record was requested by the State, in particular its human rights record relating to women, prior to the vote on its membership of the UN Commission on the Status of Women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22848/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (16 May 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: 300. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions that he or his officials had with the permanent representative of Ireland to the UN prior to the vote on Saudi Arabia's membership of the UN Commission on the Status of Women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22847/17]