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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Expenditure (1 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: 140. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide detailed consideration to the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37348/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (1 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: 141. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding a bill of rights for Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37349/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (1 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: 142. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress being made in relation to the proposed Irish Language Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37350/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (1 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: 143. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the establishment of the North-South consultative forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37351/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: North-South Implementation Bodies (1 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: 144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the review of the North-South bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37352/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UN Resolutions (1 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: 146. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it will be necessary to enact new legislation to implement the UN Security Council resolution to combat migrant terrorism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37408/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (1 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: 200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Narrow Water Bridge proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37334/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Emigrant Register: Crosscare Migrant Project (1 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: Like the Chairman, I welcome the proposal and consider it to be very worthwhile. I presume minimal funding would establish the project. Often as a State we are reluctant to use universities, institutes of technology, business schools and research units in colleges to carry out specific work on behalf of Departments. The project could be delegated, within reason, to a college, institute of...

Order of Business (2 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: In 1999, the Irish and British Governments established the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains. Over the years, the commission has been adequately resourced by the Irish and British Governments. Can the Tánaiste give us an assurance that the important work of the commission will continue through appropriate resourcing for whatever length of time it is needed?...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undocumented Irish in the USA (2 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: 163. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he had discussions during his recent visit to the US with members of Congress and/or with members of the US Administration in relation to the Immigration Reform Bill; when this legislation is likely to be enacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37533/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UN Issues (2 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: 164. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the issues discussed at his recent meeting with the UN Secretary General; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37534/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (2 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: 165. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he discussed with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland the need to establish an independent review of the murder of 11 people in Ballymurphy in August 1971; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37535/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (2 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: 166. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he discussed with the Northern Ireland Secretary of State and-or with members of the Northern Ireland Executive, the need to establish the North-South consultative forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37536/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (7 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: 74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of the latest initiative to reach agreement on the Haass proposals in Northern Ireland; the areas to be dealt with in these talks; if the devolution of further responsibilities to the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly will be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37870/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (7 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: I congratulate the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Charles Flanagan, and the Ministers of State at that Department on their appointments, and I wish them well in their responsibilities. I welcome the statement made at the end of September by the British Secretary of State, Theresa Villiers, to the effect that there will be a new round of cross-party negotiations involving the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (7 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister for his reply and I am glad to note there will be an expansion of the particular issues to be discussed. Will Minister indicate the timeframe and the work programme? When does he hope to have these agreed between the two Governments and the Executive parties? The Minister quite rightly stated that peace must yield benefits and dividends to all communities. Throughout...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (7 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: 77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the initiatives he is taking to ensure the further implementation of provisions of the Good Friday and St. Andrews Agreements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37871/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (7 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: Achieving the Good Friday Agreement and having it endorsed by the overwhelming majority of the all the people on this island were truly seminal moments in our history and gave us a whole new inclusive political architecture for the governance of our country. Sixteen years on, we need to have the remaining aspects of that agreement implemented in full, including the Bill of Rights for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (7 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: I welcome the Minister's clear indication that he wants to see the momentum restored to ensure the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement and the St. Andrews Agreement are implemented in full. At the North-South Ministerial Council meeting last Friday, did the members of the Northern Ireland Executive indicate whether they are attaching any urgency to achieving agreement on the Bill of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (7 Oct 2014)

Brendan Smith: It baffles me why a North-South consultative forum could not be in place by now. Civil society does not threaten anybody. Civil society has also played an important role. In many areas of Northern Ireland where I have had opportunities to meet local communities, people feel they are not adequately represented by the political system. Civil society might assist in filling that deficit. ...