Results 1,201-1,220 of 1,687 for speaker:Eric Byrne

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (22 Oct 2014)

Eric Byrne: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when supports will be afforded in respect of a child (details supplied) to allow them to attend school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40626/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Colombia: ICTU (22 Oct 2014)

Eric Byrne: First, I have to alert the committee that I was part of the delegation that went to Colombia with Mr. Peter Bunting, Mr. Tom Geraghty and Ms Aileen Morrissey. As I saw the conditions on the ground, I support 100% the reports they have made today. During the visit, we saw the most frightening human rights abuses. Colombia is a highly militarised society with troops everywhere. What is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Colombia: ICTU (22 Oct 2014)

Eric Byrne: This has been a very important meeting. We have discussed how it is best for the Irish Government to pressurise the Colombian Government into conforming with the human rights and labour rights clauses. I am learning as I go along. We have an EU ambassador representing Ireland, Maria Antonia van Gool. Her thinking about the human rights clauses is very interesting. She stated:In the end,...

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: Does Deputy Higgins imagine that Deputy Gerry Adams cannot pay? He is the wealthiest TD in the place.

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: Which abuse?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (4 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: 377. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way he is ensuring that Ireland’s ongoing engagement with the negotiations on the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is addressing the key challenge set out in paragraph 16 of the European Parliament’s 23 May 2013 resolution (details supplied) regarding these negotiations; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme Applications (4 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: 860. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a minor works grant will be granted to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41199/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme Applications (4 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: 861. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a minor works grant will be granted to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41200/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters (4 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: 995. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason customers do not have access to their own water meters so as to monitor there own usage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41102/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Report on Response to 2014 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Better Europe Alliance (4 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: I wish to apologise to the Chairman, committee and delegation for my absence earlier but I had to attend a lunch with eight European ambassadors who quizzed me as though I was Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Report on Response to 2014 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Better Europe Alliance (4 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: It is just as well I knew as much as I did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Nigeria: Ambassador of Nigeria to Ireland (4 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: I welcome the ambassador. I hope she has a pleasant experience in Ireland. She will have plenty of her fellow nationals to engage with given that about 40,000 Nigerians live in Ireland, an issue to which I will return. I congratulate her on her appointment. Having read her profile, I recognise she is no mean person to deal with. As she has been a parliamentarian, she will know a lot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Nigeria: Ambassador of Nigeria to Ireland (4 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: I hope ESBI becomes involved. It is involved in such partnerships in Tanzania and elsewhere and has an excellent record. I hope the Vice Chairman will excuse me but I am obliged to leave for a meeting with six other ambassadors.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: Is that the women in Northern Ireland?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Reform (6 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: 41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her Department's views on illness benefit and proposed changes (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42548/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Support Services (6 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: 136. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in tabular form the funding that has been provided to the Family Support Agency for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42547/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: I welcome the Minister and hope he will go off script when I ask him some questions that have not been covered by him to date. I concur with the Minister, and I think the Chairman would concur also, that the embassy staff in Sierra Leone, mainly under the leadership of women, is spectacular. I join the Minister in praising the phenomenal work by that delegation. We knew about the really...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: It is my last question. When the Minister refers to Palestine, what borders is he talking about recognising? Are they the 1967 borders?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: He is the Minister for Foreign Affairs for all issues, not just European ones. With all due respect he is a Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: He is the senior Minister in the Department of Foreign Affairs.