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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: Like you, a Chathaoirligh, I welcome our three guests and their contributions. I commend them on the important work that they are carrying out on behalf of the State, and also Mrs. Rosalie Flanagan, as nominee of the British Government. I proposed, in 2018, that the commission would be invited to address this committee's predecessor. I also proposed, this time, when we were drafting our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: I wholeheartedly endorse the Chairman's proposal that we ask for a special Dáil debate and a motion to be tabled in the names of all the party and group leaders. That would elevate our work on the committee and the appeals of our guests and witnesses on the importance of this issue. Mr. Knupfer referred to the television drama "Bloodlands". I did not see that programme. Has it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: Yes, thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: I am supportive of Deputy Carroll MacNeill's last point. It is obvious that there is a need for campaign-type support, if you want to call it that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: Mr. Oliver McVeigh and other families of the disappeared go to Stormont each year. To my recollection, on one of the particular anniversary dates there is a gathering at Stormont. Maybe we should have a gathering here, at Leinster House.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: Even apart from that, there should be a public gathering as well outside the confines of Leinster House.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: Hopefully, that would get some media attention and help to create that awareness. As all of our witnesses have appealed for, I appeal to anybody with any shred of information, regardless of whether he or she thinks it may be totally insignificant. I, again, give out the message about the confidentiality, that no information would be admissible in any criminal proceedings. They are two...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: We would love it if the three bodies were found but in the meantime, we should have a campaign that the public could join in and support, as well as us Members of the Oireachtas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: We might, that day, give some consideration to a campaign in Dublin or based in our capital city outside the Oireachtas, but obviously supported by Oireachtas Members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (18 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: I propose a statement would go out in the Chairman's name and that of the committee following our meeting today, and that we are following up on actions. It would be important to put that out as well.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (17 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: Since the last national risk assessment was published in 2019, there have been major challenges for this country and, indeed, for the world. There is the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, we suffered the cyber attack on the health services, the HSE and the Department of Health, and we also encountered Brexit and the fallout from that. We must have an all-island and all-Ireland approach to major...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (17 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the national risk assessment. [55901/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: I welcome the Taoiseach's ongoing engagement with members of the Northern Ireland Executive and the leaders of the political parties. It has been almost ten months since Britain left the EU, and the protocol on Ireland-Northern Ireland is still a subject of concern. Triggering Article 16 would be disastrous for the entirety of this island and for Britain. It is clear from all surveys the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagement with political leaders in Northern Ireland. [55888/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (16 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: 95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the recent discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland authorities in relation to flooding in County Cavan being caused by the River Erne; the action that can be taken to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55860/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Programmes (16 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: 119. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on recent developments in relation to the 2021-2027 PEACE PLUS EU Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55861/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (16 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: 232. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the upgrading of Bawnboy Garda station, County Cavan will proceed to construction stage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55679/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Correspondence (16 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: 393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give consideration to matters raised in correspondence from Monaghan County Council (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55931/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Missions (11 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: 198. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when it is planned to reopen the Institute for Trade and Investment in Taiwan as 17 other EU countries have trade offices there and the EU has a Mission Office in Taiwan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55379/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (11 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: 398. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if hedgerows, all small-scale planting and all small blocks of scrub are measured in the inventory of forest cover; if so, the way they are measured; the percentage of the State that is occupied by such forest cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55384/21]