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Human Rights Issues. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: There is no evidence to support that. No evidence has been brought to our attention by anybody who has made such allegations and, furthermore, we have not received any such evidence. When the US Government gives us categoric assurances in this regard, as it did no later than last week, we accept them. The conditions of transit are the conditions which have been in place in regard to many...

Human Rights Issues. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: It is the Deputy who is hypocritical.

Human Rights Issues. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: If the Deputy was on this side of the House with Fine Gael and Labour he would have to swallow that pill.

Human Rights Issues. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: The Deputy is a hypocrite.

Human Rights Issues. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: That is what Deputy Gormley would be doing if his party cosied up to those parties.

Human Rights Issues. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: How can the Deputy's party join them when what they want is in NATO? He should answer that question.

Human Rights Issues. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: I am the Minister——

Human Rights Issues. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: Will the Deputy tell the people where stands his party on this issue?

Human Rights Issues. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: Where are we now with the Mullingar accord?

Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: It is not like the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. Our Department does not pick sites.

Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: It is not a political lie.

Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: I was called, to be fair, by the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: I am afraid to get up. The last time I was called I was accused of interrupting.

Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: I was called by the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and I rose when he called the next question.

Northern Ireland Issues. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: The protection of human rights and the promotion of equality is at the heart of the Good Friday Agreement. This was collectively affirmed by the parties in the commitment in the agreement to "the mutual respect, the civil rights and the religious liberties of everyone in the community". This included in particular "the right to equal opportunity in all social and economic activity, regardless...

Northern Ireland Issues. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: Yes, objective criteria should be used. Polarisation is not needed in this type of debate. I accept that inequality is wrong no matter where it is found. I made my earlier comments in the context of the type of discrimination against Nationalists, which was endemic for decades in Northern Ireland, being all but eliminated as a result of the legislation now in place. Northern Ireland probably...

Northern Ireland Issues. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: It is not all bad news. In 1990 unemployment was higher in Northern Ireland than the rest of the United Kingdom. The unemployment rate in Catholic and Protestant areas has since fallen dramatically and is now lower than the average UK rate. While significant pockets of unemployment remain and significant differences remain in the ratio of Catholics to Protestants unemployed, the figures are...

Human Rights Issues. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 6 and 67 together. The report by the UN Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan, In Larger Freedom, proposed an agenda for action at the UN 2005 World Summit which took place last month. The central premise of the Secretary General's recommendations was that "we will not enjoy development without security, we will not enjoy security without development, and we will...

Human Rights Issues. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: In my few words to the UN General Assembly when I gave the statement on behalf of Ireland, I indicated that in my view some of the better elements of the Human Rights Commission should be retained, and particularly I referred to the NGO participation which we believed was important in order to keep Governments and nation states to account. On the question of how we see it pan out, we very...

Human Rights Issues. (6 Oct 2005)

Dermot Ahern: Towards the latter end of the discussions a number of countries which found fault with the peace-building commission even though previously there was general agreement. There is a time limit on the formation of it, that is, by the end of the year. Given the broad spectrum of opinion on the human rights council, it is accepted that it will take some more time. There is no time indicated. We...