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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (28 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: Official Development Assistance (ODA) is an integral element of Ireland’s foreign policy. A Better World, Ireland’s policy for international development, provides a vision for Ireland’s development cooperation, including the clear commitment of the Government to direct ODA to reaching the furthest behind first.  Successive Organisation for Economic Co-operation...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (28 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: Ireland's strong commitment to gender equality and the elimination of gender-based violence is reflected across our foreign policy.  A Better World, Ireland’s policy for international development, sets gender equality as a key cross-cutting priority.  It commits to an overarching focus on women and girls across all our interventions and partnerships, specifically highlighting...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Sustainable Development Goals (28 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: My Department’s Statement of Strategy for 2021-2025, which is currently being prepared, and the relevant business plans, will continue to reflect the centrality of the SDGs and Ireland’s commitment to Agenda 2030. Ireland played a unique and central role in the process to agree Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as co-chair, alongside Kenya of the final...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (28 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: Yemen is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with over 24 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. The spread of COVID-19 in the country could be catastrophic.  Ireland has provided more than €5 million in humanitarian aid to Yemen in 2020, bringing the total since 2015 to €27 million. Our 2020 contribution was provided to the UN's Country Based...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diaspora Issues (28 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: The Government will publish its new Diaspora policy in 2020. Considerable preparatory work has already been undertaken, including extensive public consultations last year in Ireland and with Diaspora communities around the world.  This work is nearly finalised and the new policy will be published later this year.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Constitutional Amendments (28 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: The Government is committed to holding a referendum on extending the franchise at Presidential elections to Irish citizens living outside the State. We will shortly restore the Thirty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Elections) Bill to the Dáil Order Paper.   The date for the holding of the referendum will be decided once the legislation has been approved by...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Expenditure (30 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 573 and 575 together. The Irish Red Cross Society was established by the Irish Red Cross Society Order 1939 pursuant to the Red Cross Act, 1938 and is an independent charitable body corporate with full power to manage and administer its own affairs. Funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to the Irish Red Cross ceased in 2018 and there are...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (8 Sep 2020)

Colm Brophy: Ireland's development cooperation programme has been recognised internationally for its commitment to Least Developed Countries (LDCs). This is in line with our international development policy, A Better World, which commits Ireland to reaching the furthest behind first. The OECD's latest development cooperation Peer Review of Ireland was published earlier this year. That Peer Review...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (8 Sep 2020)

Colm Brophy: I refer the Deputy to the response to Parliamentary Questions No. 338 and No. 342 of 21 July in answer to which details of the members of the election observation roster were provided. That response notes that consideration was given to providing further information beyond the names of the members (including their residences) and it was not determined to be in the public interest to do so. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: United Nations (9 Sep 2020)

Colm Brophy: Ireland is a longstanding supporter of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which provides essential services to 5.6 million registered Palestine refugees, 1.4 million of whom are in Gaza. In the context of the challenge posed by the COVID 19 pandemic, UNRWA's work in providing vital services including education, healthcare and humanitarian relief...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (15 Sep 2020)

Colm Brophy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 369 and 370 together. I refer the Deputy to my responses to Questions No. 338 and No. 342 of 21 July, as well as to Question No. 453 of 8 September, in which detailed information was provided on the current membership of roster of volunteers for election observation missions. Ireland does not require volunteers selected for the election observer roster...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Emigrant Support Services (17 Sep 2020)

Colm Brophy: The Emigrant Support Programme (ESP) provides funding to non-profit organisations and projects to support our most vulnerable emigrants overseas, to strengthen Irish communities abroad and to facilitate the development of closer and more strategic links between Ireland and the global Irish. The budget for the programme in 2020 is €12.595 million and is a demonstration of the Government...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Disaster Response (22 Sep 2020)

Colm Brophy: I am deeply saddened by the fire at the Moria camp on Lesbos and the impact this has had on the refugees and migrants based at the camp. The very sudden displacement of thousands of people has caused great individual suffering and created a major humanitarian emergency. It is also posing a very serious logistical challenge for the Greek authorities in the midst of the COVID pandemic. My...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Disaster Response (22 Sep 2020)

Colm Brophy: Sudan is facing its worst flooding in three decades.  Weeks of heavy rains have critically affected more than 730,000 Sudanese people.  Sadly, at least 100 people have lost their lives.  The Transitional Government of Sudan declared a national state of emergency on 4 September.  Ireland has provided development and humanitarian assistance to the Sudanese people for...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Disaster Response (22 Sep 2020)

Colm Brophy: I am deeply saddened by the fire at the Moria camp on Lesbos and the impact this has had on the refugees and migrants based at the camp. It is a relief that there are no reported deaths or injuries, but the very sudden displacement of thousands of people has caused great suffering and created a major humanitarian emergency as well as posing a huge logistical challenge for the Greek...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diaspora Issues (22 Sep 2020)

Colm Brophy: With the outbreak of the current pandemic, the Government undertook a targeted communications strategy to provide support, reassurance and connectedness to the Global Irish. This initiative was led by my Department and supported through our Mission network. In addition, support was directed through a new Covid-19 Response Fund to Irish frontline welfare organisations around the world to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (29 Sep 2020)

Colm Brophy: Mozambique is among the world’s poorest countries, ranked 180thof 189 countries in the 2019 United Nations Human Development Index. Approximately 62 per cent of the population lives below the income poverty line of $1.90 a day and average life expectancy is 60 years. Ireland established a development cooperation programme in Mozambique in 1996, with a mandate to provide humanitarian...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Oct 2020)

Colm Brophy: Ireland recognises that the Palestinian people are particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic, a vulnerability that is closely linked to an overburdened healthcare system, and civilian populations suffering from insecurity, displacement, conflict and poverty. The most recent data available from the WHO records a total of 50,115 cases in the occupied Palestine territories, with 360...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Colm Brophy: The people of Yemen continue to be confronted with multiple threats to their lives and livelihoods. In addition to the prolonged conflict and the resulting humanitarian crisis, they are now facing a health emergency caused by Covid-19. The underlying cause of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is armed conflict. Along with the UN and the EU, Ireland believes that the only way to bring about...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (6 Oct 2020)

Colm Brophy: A Better World, Ireland's international development policy, sets out the Government's commitment to alleviating poverty and reaching the furthest behind first. Ireland works with a variety of partners in order to reach those in greatest need. Ireland, as an EU Member State and, also, working through the United Nations and other multilateral agencies is able to match financial investment...