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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Conference on Financing for Development Briefing: Dóchas (10 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: I welcome Ms Lorna Gold, head of policy and advocacy with Trócaire, Mr. Sorley McCaughey, head of policy and advocacy with Christian Aid Ireland and Ms Eilis Ryan, co-ordinator of Debt and Development Coalition Ireland. The purpose of this meeting is to provide a briefing to the joint committee in advance of the financing for development conference in Addis Ababa. The format of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Conference on Financing for Development Briefing: Dóchas (10 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: If the presentations are finished, I will move on to member's questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Conference on Financing for Development Briefing: Dóchas (10 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: That is important; we need to know what we can do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Conference on Financing for Development Briefing: Dóchas (10 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: That is excellent. I know the Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Sherlock will be part of the Irish delegation but the final composition of the delegation has yet to be decided. I also know that it is top of the agenda for the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Flanagan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Conference on Financing for Development Briefing: Dóchas (10 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: I call Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan, after whom I will revert to the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Conference on Financing for Development Briefing: Dóchas (10 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: I will let Deputy O'Sullivan speak again if she wishes. I call Ms Lorna Gold.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Conference on Financing for Development Briefing: Dóchas (10 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: What do the delegations see as the main obstacles to achieving the new mechanisms for financing the whole development situation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Conference on Financing for Development Briefing: Dóchas (10 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: That is very important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Conference on Financing for Development Briefing: Dóchas (10 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: Will countries make financial pledges at the conference?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Conference on Financing for Development Briefing: Dóchas (10 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: Will it be more policy statements than financial pledges?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Conference on Financing for Development Briefing: Dóchas (10 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: It will be a policy document. Deputy O'Sullivan expressed her concern about only having a review every four years. Is McCaughey concerned about the same matter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Conference on Financing for Development Briefing: Dóchas (10 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: So that parliaments, in various countries, could monitor the same as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Conference on Financing for Development Briefing: Dóchas (10 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: It is probably in their best interests to have the highest level of delegation in their own countries. I thank the three witnesses for attending. This matter shall not go away and we are not going away. Next week the director general of Irish Aid and his officials will be in attendance and we will discuss this subject. The Irish UN representative is David Donoghue and we congratulate...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (10 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: 87. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when Suckler Payments for 2014 will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22523/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (10 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: 88. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Single Farm Payments have been reduced in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22529/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Premium Payments (10 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: 89. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Forestry Premium payments have been reduced in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22531/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (10 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: 90. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Calf Premium Payments have not issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22540/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (9 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: 192. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a disability allowance will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21558/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (9 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: 193. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a disability allowance application will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21559/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (9 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: 240. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to introduce a scheme to address cases (details attached); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22051/15]