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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Transfers (17 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The information available to my Department indicates that nine officers have applied through the central transfer list system and are awaiting transfers to Departments or offices in other counties. Other officers may have applied directly through the Central Application Facility (CAF), managed by the Public Appointments Service, for moves to decentralised Departments or offices. In 2012, five...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency (22 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The contract awarded to TERMINALFOUR Solutions Ltd. for the provision of its web content management software and professional services for the EU Presidency website eu2013.ie was for a total of €198,977.00 (€244,741.71 inclusive of VAT). The contract included a range of services including website design and development, content management system licensing, annual support and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency (22 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The EU Presidency website, , has received over 104,000 visits since its launch on 17 December 2012, with around 386000 page views. The associated Twitter account has nearly 4500 followers. The statistics on website usage are tracked and analysed. Analytics will be made publicly available on the website on a quarterly basis.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (22 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Passports Act, 2008 provides, among other things, that only Irish citizens are entitled to be issued with Irish passports. Each application received by the Passport Service must, therefore, demonstrate that person's entitlement to Irish citizenship before a passport can issue. The Passport Service must operate within the law on this as in all matters. The Department received an...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Emergency Funding for Natural Disasters (22 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Hurricane Sandy directly affected large numbers of Irish Americans and neighbourhoods which have a special place in New York Irish American life. Following discussions between the Taoiseach and President Obama and between myself and US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, I announced on 6 December 2012 that the Irish Government would provide emergency funding of €250,000 to assist the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Overseas Aid (22 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I propose to take Questions Nos. 193 and 195 together. Negotiations on the European Union’s Multiannual Financial Framework for 2014-2020, the MFF, have made substantial progress. At its meeting on 22 and 23 November 2012, the European Council gave a mandate to President Van Rompuy and President Barroso to pursue work on the MFF, with a view to reaching agreement at the beginning...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undocumented Irish in the USA (22 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government continues to attach particular importance to the welfare of the Irish abroad in general and especially to the position of undocumented Irish immigrants in the United States. A resolution of the situation for undocumented Irish migrants will continue to be pursued by the Government in our ongoing contacts with the US Administration and Congress. The advice of Ireland’s...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Staff (22 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: No member of my family is employed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (22 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government follows closely reports of human rights abuses of the Rohingya people in Burma/Myanmar and is concerned about the situation. While Ireland’s diplomatic relations with Burma/Myanmar are maintained on a secondary accreditation basis via our Embassy in Vietnam and through the Embassy of Burma/Myanmar in London, we continue to work through the mechanisms of the EU and UN to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (23 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I have made no representations in respect of this incident. My Department, however, has closely followed the reports of these killings, which I note are currently being investigated by the French authorities.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (23 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Mali has been the subject of urgent and ongoing discussion by EU Member States since March 2012 when there was an army coup and armed groups seized control of the north of the country. Mali has also been discussed during a number of bilateral exchanges at official and political levels between Ireland and France, including following the French military intervention at the request of the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (23 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The application in question was approved by my Department 17th January and the relevant certificate was forwarded to our Consulate in San Francisco on 18th January for issue to the applicant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency: Discussion with Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (23 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Thank you, Chairman. I am pleased to have the opportunity to brief the joint committee on Ireland's Presidency priorities in the foreign policy area. By way of introduction, I will refer briefly to our overall Presidency priorities before focusing more specifically on the areas of particular interest to the committee. As members are aware, our Presidency programme is built around the core...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency: Discussion with Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (23 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: It was a very significant speech by the Prime Minister, during which he set out a strong case for the importance of the UK's continued and active membership of the European Union, which is very welcome. Obviously we will need some time to study the speech in all its detail and assess its full implications. I do not think it is a speech to which we should give an immediate, knee-jerk...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency: Discussion with Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (23 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I appreciate that. Deputy Smith will be aware that the Commission initially made a set of proposals for a multi-annual financial framework or European budget for 2014 to 2020. Ireland supported those proposals. There were considerable differences among member states, some of which sought a reduced European budget while others wanted the Commission budget enlarged or in some cases an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency: Discussion with Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (23 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: There are a lot of questions with a lot of detail, quite a number of which are probably outside the scope of this committee. I will start with Deputy Crowe's question on youth unemployment because there is no doubt that it is the big social and economic issue Europe must address. Getting young people into employment means growing the European economy, which is why we have put a very strong...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency: Discussion with Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (23 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The first question was raised by Deputy Mitchell about the millennium development goals and their objectives in respect of gender equality and child mortality. Ireland is strongly committed to the achievement of both of those goals. That is why one of the major initiatives in the development programme is the SUN, scaling up nutrition, programme. It is based on the first 1,000 days of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency: Discussion with Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (23 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I am not quite sure. If the Senator has a specific issue to raise, I will be happy to address it.

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Let us be clear, this is about new jobs. There are many people in this country who are out of work.

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has made it clear that putting people into employment is its top priority. If a multinational company came into this country and announced 1,000 new jobs for graduates, everybody in this House would welcome it. An additional 1,000 jobs are being created in the nursing sector. There are currently approximately 35,000 employed in the health service. These 1,000 posts for...