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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions: Discussion with International Criminal Court (17 Dec 2013)

Eric Byrne: No one is accusing the Chairman of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions: Discussion with International Criminal Court (17 Dec 2013)

Eric Byrne: Mrs. Bensouda will never be unemployed, given the state of the world today with chemical weapon attacks and aerial bombings of civilians in Syria.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions: Discussion with International Criminal Court (17 Dec 2013)

Eric Byrne: I will jump in at the deep end. Would it not be better for the International Criminal Court to be an integral part of the United Nations? It seems to me that it is a question of countries being referred to the court. For example, the UN Security Council refers cases for investigation to the ICC, or participants or signatories to the ICC allow it to investigate. If I understand the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions: Discussion with International Criminal Court (17 Dec 2013)

Eric Byrne: I will pick up the threads and see where we are going. The Chairman and other members of this committee visited Sierra Leone and saw the special court for that country. We are talking about the Lord's Resistance Army and the effects of the war there, including amputations. Can Mrs. Bensouda explain the ICC's relationship with the special court for Sierra Leone? The more commonly known one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions: Discussion with International Criminal Court (17 Dec 2013)

Eric Byrne: Yes. Can Mrs. Bensouda explain how all these institutions knit together? Eight countries are currently being investigated and they are all African countries. I think Mrs. Bensouda said that the Organisation of African Unity was slipping backwards in support of the ICC, and only 34 of Africa's 54 countries have signed up to the court. The ICC will face a phenomenal task in dealing with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions: Discussion with International Criminal Court (17 Dec 2013)

Eric Byrne: We do provide a lot of aid for it, however.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions: Discussion with International Criminal Court (17 Dec 2013)

Eric Byrne: Are the Americans or Chinese going to contribute?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions: Discussion with International Criminal Court (17 Dec 2013)

Eric Byrne: The African countries are not involved.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions: Discussion with International Criminal Court (17 Dec 2013)

Eric Byrne: Is that the non-affiliated ones? I presume the affiliated countries-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions: Discussion with International Criminal Court (17 Dec 2013)

Eric Byrne: What is the position of the Organisation of African Unity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions: Discussion with International Criminal Court (17 Dec 2013)

Eric Byrne: I think Mrs. Bensouda was suggesting that it was being undermined or that support for the court was being clawed back. Is that a fact?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions: Discussion with International Criminal Court (17 Dec 2013)

Eric Byrne: I am finished.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility (15 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: 342. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the criteria used to qualify for payment for supplementary welfare allowance; the amount that is actually spent on items such as these; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55296/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Industry Issues (15 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: 925. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Dublin Tourism Office, which was run in the old church in St. Andrew's Street by Failte Ireland; the plans to replace the office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55407/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Industry Issues (15 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: 926. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his policy on the tourism offices in Dublin for Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Northern Ireland, specifically at St. Andrew's Church, Dublin; the reason these services are being discontinued; whether there is now an emphasis being placed on private operators and tour guides as opposed to public bodies, such as those referred to;...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: Would it be possible to fit them all in the one go?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: We are at the end of the queue and because of the long contributions we will be left with the smallest contributions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: I welcome Mr. Dorr whom I have never met but whom I hear on radio all the time. I have nothing but sincere and deep admiration for his comments. I have done my best to absorb his full contribution and I have several questions. I am not sure how to present a review of foreign policy and external relations in six or ten bullet points so that foreign policy is changed. How one actually...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: As there are only two members, I knew I was going to be the next speaker.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: I find myself concurring with many of the opinions expressed so I will keep my contribution short. We pay lip-service to the diaspora. The Gathering was one thing but I mentioned my embarrassment at having to rely on the French to go in and do humanitarian work in Africa. I mention my embarrassment as an OSCE short-term oberver - as a citizen and not as a politician - seeing countries...