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Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Eric Byrne: Take an early holiday.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Eric Byrne: He is on the flight to his holiday.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (31 Mar 2015)

Eric Byrne: 381. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when full funding will be restored to an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12930/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (31 Mar 2015)

Eric Byrne: 432. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when full funding will be restored to an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12928/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Projects (1 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: I thank the Minister of State for attending. I appreciate that as soon as I called him on receipt of the letter from the City of Dublin Education and Training Board, CDETB, he acted promptly. It is the least I can expect from a Labour Party Minister. I do not know what exactly are the issues between Pobal, DCC and CDETB, but I have a copy of a reassuring letter which was sent to both...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Projects (1 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: I have a couple of seconds left.

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Projects (1 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: I thank the Minister of State for his response. He might, if he has access to the information, write an outline of his response to the sporting, cultural and adult groups that are using the services to reassure them, despite the scare tactics that have been used on the ground, that there is no need for them to attend public meetings. These are three-year contracts. I was surprised that...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Projects (1 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: I thought there was-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Global Irish - Ireland’s Diaspora Policy: Minister of State at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: What about The New York Timesand The Irish Times?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Global Irish - Ireland’s Diaspora Policy: Minister of State at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: I thank the Minister of State for attending and wish him well in his work. Who are the diaspora? How are they defined? I am conscious of the fact that when I was growing up in Ireland, travel to other countries, mainly to Britain, was part and parcel of one's life. People went to England to find work in construction to build tunnels and railway lines. As we know, there are now elderly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: I find this a very difficult and sad issue. There is a huge amount of human capital involved and there are huge emotions. There is also danger and a fear on the part of the family that the Egyptian authorities will make the ultimate decision which would affect the life of their brother and son. I do not like the way this issue is unfolding. We must remember the context. Three members...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: We got advice from the Department that diplomacy is best worked in a diplomatic way. Sadly, members not just of this committee but of the Parliament have decided that the old tactic of shouting and roaring from the backbenches contributes more effectively than the diplomatic route being taken by our diplomats. If there is a serious decision from the Egyptian courts, subsequent to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Ombudsman: Ms Emily O'Reilly (2 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: I apologise to the Ombudsman. I should have read my documentation in advance of coming to the meeting, but I did not so. Therefore, I will ask baby questions. Whom does the Ombudsman represent? Is it MEPs, the European Parliament or national parliaments? How does she represent 28 countries in Europe? The Ombudsman spoke about the TTIP trade agreement between Europe and America....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Ombudsman: Ms Emily O'Reilly (2 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: Yes, they are going to - all 28 have to ratify.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Ombudsman: Ms Emily O'Reilly (2 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: I have a question on TTIP and transparency. Against a background of extensive regulation and monitoring of those regulations, there is a desire to do away with that and have a more standard form. Taking the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland as an example, in order to get a plant up and running, it is necessary to go through various very sophisticated preparatory procedures with the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Directives (15 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: 225. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to set out his plans to transpose the European Union directive on part-time work into Irish law ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14815/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: I often look at Northern Ireland with heart palpitations and, simplistically, see it as a terrible, divided, sectarian statelet. It is probably the most sectarian society in Europe. I do not know whether recruitment to the police force and civil service is still done on the basis of religion in the balancing act between Roman Catholic and Protestant. I thank Professor Todd for her paper,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: I appreciate that Professor Todd is not a politician, but she did not respond to my question on attitudes in the North. One could be angered by the fact that they are more concerned about extracting more from the British Exchequer for their budget than they are about the critical issues we in the South are addressing. It reinforces my attitude to Northern Ireland politics that, for example,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: I am happy to agree to that.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (21 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: 196. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position on the status of Balochistan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15185/15]