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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Northern Ireland Issues (15 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 412. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will support the case made to the Police Ombudsman in Northern Ireland, on the need to carry out the appropriate and full investigations in Northern Ireland into the bombing in Belturbet in County Cavan in December 1972; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14944/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Civil Registration Documentation (15 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 656. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason there has been a delay in processing the MP2A and MP1 forms in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who is due to be married in July in Latvia; if he is aware of the difficulties that may arise as a result of the delay; if his Department will endeavour to complete this process as soon as possible; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: North South Ministerial Council (15 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 663. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the next North-South Ministerial Council meeting will be held; the issues to be discussed at this meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14942/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Expenditure (15 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 664. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding allocated by his Department to overseas development aid as a percentage of gross national income from 1997 to 2014, inclusive; the total funding allocated in each of those years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14948/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Expenditure (15 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 665. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it is still Government policy to allocate 0.7% of gross national income to overseas development aid; the timeframe he as set in the context of achieving this target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14949/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (15 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 666. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contact he has had with his European Union and United Nations counterparts regarding the increasingly desperate humanitarian crisis at the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria; the actions that have arisen out of these discussions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14950/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diaspora Policy (15 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 667. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has held discussions with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport following his decision to cancel the proposed plan to create a national diaspora centre here; the way this decision will affect the diaspora policy, as outlined in the Global Irish document; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14951/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Properties (15 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 896. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will provide urgent consideration to the purchase of a property (details supplied) in County Cavan, in view of its potential for development as a tourism and heritage project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14814/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Properties (15 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 921. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if consideration will be given to the purchase of a property (details supplied) in County Cavan by her Department or agencies under the remit of her Department, in view of its potential for development as a tourism and heritage project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14941/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Laundering (16 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 88. To ask the Minister for Finance the additional measures he proposes to implement to deal with the issue of illegal trading in diesel and petrol products, which is impacting severely on small legitimate businesses and on many motorists due to damage to vehicle engines, particularly in the Border areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15107/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undocumented Irish in the USA (16 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 174. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of any recent discussions he has had with the authorities in the United States of America in relation to the proposed immigration reform legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15077/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (16 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 175. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the next meeting of the Implementation Group on the Stormont House Agreement will take place; the issues to be discussed at that meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15078/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 176. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Syria and adjoining areas will be discussed at the next European Union Foreign Affairs Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15079/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fuel Laundering (16 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 194. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the result of correspondence and discussions he had with the Minister for the Environment for Northern Ireland following the dumping of sludge, a by-product of diesel laundering, in the Louth-Monaghan area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15108/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (21 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 169. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise again with the British Government the need to release the files and papers pertaining to the Dublin-Monaghan bombings of May 1974; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15328/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (21 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: In May 1974 the single greatest act of carnage in the period known as the Troubles on our island resulted in the deaths of 44 innocent people from Dublin city and Monaghan town. The Dáil, in 2008 and 2011, unanimously passed a motion requesting the British Government to give an international eminent legal person access to papers and files relating to those bombings. Unfortunately, to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (21 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister sincerely for his interest. I keep raising this issue because we want to assure the families of the victims, and victims themselves, that we are determined, as a Parliament, to ensure proper and full investigations are carried out. Before the 41st anniversary of these awful deeds, a new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland will probably have been appointed by a new...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (21 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: The Minister acknowledged the engagement Deputy Micheál Martin and myself have had with the Secretary of State. We also engaged with the Labour Party spokesperson for Northern Ireland, Mr. Lewis MP. As the Minister knows, the Barron report is extremely important. Mr. Justice Henry Barron found grounds for suspecting that the bombers may have had help from members of the British...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (21 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 172. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the implementation of the Stormont House Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15329/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (21 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: The Fianna Fáil Party warmly welcomed the Stormont House Agreement towards the end of last December. It is an important mechanism to advance a number of outstanding issues, including identity, the need for welfare reform to meet the needs of the less well-off, and making Government finance in Northern Ireland more sustainable. Many of the issues are ones we do not have the luxury of...