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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Persecution of Christians: Discussion (13 May 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: I welcome the witnesses. I do not propose to repeat the pertinent questions asked by Deputy Brendan Smith. Many lessons from history can be utilised in this regard. In his human rights campaign Martin Luther King held up to the white population of America the Constitution of the United States when he called on them to implement constitutional rights for all the country's citizens. This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Persecution of Christians: Discussion (13 May 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: I congratulate Fr. Bartlett on his contribution. I would love to see traditional Catholic and Christian people in this country mobilised to respond to what he has described. We will respond, and we are responding. There are three kinds of Catholics on this island, certainly in this State: Catholics by conviction, Catholics by culture and Catholics by compulsion. The Catholics by...

Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: The Government recently published the legislation to enact the dissolution of the Dublin Docklands Authority. Can the Tánaiste give an indication as to when it will be taken in the House?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Deaths of Irish Citizens in Berkeley: Expressions of Sympathy (17 Jun 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: I would like to be associated with the remarks that have just been made. I wish to make a suggestion, namely, that this committee, under the Chairman's leadership, write formally to the president of UCD. I believe I am correct in assuming that all the students are from UCD.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Deaths of Irish Citizens in Berkeley: Expressions of Sympathy (17 Jun 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: A significant number are from UCD. Part and parcel of living on an island off an island off the west coast of Europe is that, in order to gain an understanding of the rest of the world, one needs to travel. The J1 visa and the concentration of UCD students in Berkeley comprise a very constructive semi-sheltered way of embarking on that kind of journey. Not only should we express our...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 82. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of the works carried out on the Poddle River to alleviate the risk of flooding, the level of risk to which residents are currently protected; when the proposed works are carried out at Tymon Park in Dublin 12, the level of risk to which residents will be protected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26578/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the flood protection work carried out so far along the Poddle River; when the proposed works will be finished, so that homeowners along the river may access flood insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26579/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in relation to the proposed Office of Public Works works on increasing the attenuation capacity of the Tymon Park in Dublin 12 ponds to address flood issues on the River Poddle, if there is a time frame in place for this work; if he will provide same; the type and amount of funding required for this work; if the funding has been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 212. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for (details supplied) and if the facade will be protected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26572/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centre Provision (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 213. To ask the Minister for Health the current plans for the provision of a primary care centre (details supplied) in Dublin 4; if a centre will be provided; when works are scheduled to start; when he expects this much needed health care facility to be in place, as it was originally projected to open in quarter two of 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26573/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centre Provision (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 214. To ask the Minister for Health the current plans for the provision of a primary care centre (details supplied) in Dublin 6; if a centre will be provided; when works are scheduled to start; when this much needed health care facility will be in place, as it was originally projected to open in quarter two of 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26574/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centre Provision (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 215. To ask the Minister for Health the current plans for the provision of a primary care centre (details supplied) in Dublin 6; if a centre will be provided; when works are scheduled to start; when this much needed health care facility will be in place, as it was originally projected to open in quarter two of 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26575/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centre Provision (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 216. To ask the Minister for Health the current plans for the provision of a primary care centre (details supplied) in Dublin 4; if a centre will be provided; when works are scheduled to start; when this much needed health care facility will be in place, as it was originally projected to open in quarter two of 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26576/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Closures (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 217. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on plans for the former maternity hospital site at Mount Carmel in Dublin 14; how work is progressing; the amount that will be spent on the fit-out; when it will begin use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26577/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Deaths of Irish Citizens in Tunisia: Expressions of Sympathy. (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Chairman. Like everyone else in this room the horror of what happened in Tunisia brings home to us in a very graphic way the horror that is happening every day in that part of the world. Some lessons have to be learned from the triumphalism of the West, which thought it could rush in with a ballot paper and a 300-year history of democracy, with all its faults, and impose it on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: Mr. O'Gorman said that "the world's politicians have miserably failed to protect those in greatest need". Is that all politicians - unelected politicians, elected politicians, independent politicians, those who have the audacity to form political parties or, even worse, to aspire to get into government and implement difficult programmes that try to reconcile the problem of refugees with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: I disagree with what Mr. O'Gorman has just said. The very tone of Mr. O'Gorman's entire reference to politicians is denigratory and makes no distinction between elected politicians in a democratic society, either in opposition or independent, and those who are self-appointed. I believe Mr. O'Gorman has a problem with his language.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: Not in the paper.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: Why not have a bit of positivity? This country is immeasurably better for a bit of political action in the last year in relation to one thing. Why not put it in a positive context; all politicians and all governments must do more to achieve the objectives of Amnesty International?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: This is not a Star Chamber.