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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review (Resumed) (19 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: Thank you, Mr. MacSorley. I call Ms Finan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review (Resumed) (19 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: Thank you very much, Ms Finan. Deputy Grealish and other members referred to the outstanding work that your organisations and other sister NGOs or missionaries do abroad. We want extend to all the people working out there our very best wishes. We understand and appreciate they are working in the most difficult of conditions in so many parts of the world where there are crises and are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review (Resumed) (19 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: In the second part of today's meeting we will hear from Mr. David Donoghue, former Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Mr. Donoghue is very welcome to today's meeting. He has joined us on many previous occasions, most recently in 2015 in his role as co-facilitator in the negotiations on sustainable development goals. On behalf of the joint committee, and indeed the Oireachtas,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review (Resumed) (19 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: I thank Mr. Donoghue very much, and again I compliment him on the excellent work he has done in taking this project so far. I call Senator Ivana Bacik.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidelines in place in respect of substitution or replacement cover for local authority members who are also primary and post-primary school teachers in view of the fact that his Department's circulars state they are entitled to ten days leave per school year for local authority duties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44621/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy Implementation (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 273. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 157 of 5 July 2017, the additional services that will be provided in 2018 in relation to the provision of community supports for persons with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44975/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe for the introduction of planned changes in the payment of allowances in respect of expenses incurred by members of local authorities as announced in January 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44622/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Reserve (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 435. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 700 of 23 May 2017, the progress that has been made in relation to the holding of a competition for promotion from captain to commandant within the Reserve Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44935/17]

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Business of Select Committee (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: All mobile phones must be turned off as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment. This meeting has been convened to consider Committee Stage of the Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017 and Committee Stage of the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: I welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Simon Coveney, and his officials. As this is the first time he has attended the committee, I wish him well in his role. The members of the committee look forward to working with him in a genuine spirit of partnership and co-operation.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: Deputy Seán Crowe submitted an amendment that was ruled out of order. As such, we cannot discuss its content.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: The Deputy should focus in his comments on the section rather than the subject matter of his disallowed amendment.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: On a point of clarity, neither the Minister nor the Department was involved in ruling the Deputy's amendment out of order. That decision fell to me as Chairman of the committee and was made on the basis that the proposal would involve a potential charge on the Exchequer. Only a Minister or a Minister of State may bring forward an amendment that has a revenue or expenditure implications.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: As the Bill has completed Committee Stage, it is recommended that members submit Report Stage amendments to the Bills Office without delay as Report Stage may be tabled at short notice.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Message to Dáil (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence has completed its consideration of the Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017 and has made amendments thereto.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: We might put a time limit on this.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Message to Dáil (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence has completed its consideration of the Protection of Cultural Property in the event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016 and has made no amendments thereto. I thank the Minister and his officials for attending the committee. It...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Message to Dáil (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister. Our committee had much engagement with his predecessor, Deputy Charles Flanagan, and Department officials regarding Ibrahim Halawa and we are all very glad he is back home in Ireland. We wish him well into the future. We want to record our appreciation for the officials in the consular section of the Department who met us on numerous occasions and briefed us. We had...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (25 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to enable persons avail of the tenant purchase scheme that may not have a weekly income apart from a social welfare payment but are in a position from their own means or through family financial support to purchase their council family home; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the present criteria of...