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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: It took me six months to prepare research for a previous motion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: Could we ask the Department for the briefing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Migration to Europe: Discussion (22 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: I do not know how low humanity can sink when one sees these traffickers locking women and children into the hulls of boats, putting the ships on autopilot to hit the rocks off the coastline while they abandon ship to go back from where they came. I am convinced we are not hearing the full extent of the horrors of this trafficking. To think these traffickers can extract as much as...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Places (22 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: 45. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by some Community Employment Schemes in recruiting staff to meet their quota of participants; the additional incentives that are needed to encourage more persons to take up vacant positions on such schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15907/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Sovereign Debt (22 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance if legislation will be introduced to tackle and prevent vulture funds from claiming more than other lenders in the case of the sovereign debt crises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15901/15]

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]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (21 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: 210. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the decision of the Secretary General of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly not to seek re-election, his plans to contribute to the debate on the possible restructuring of the organisation. [15186/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (21 Apr 2015)

Eric Byrne: 549. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views that in the proposal to consider the Future of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly that an Irish comprehensive review of the duplication of functions and operations be explored, in order to have a complimentary role evolve between the Parliamentary Assembly and the Organisation for...

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 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: 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...

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)

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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...

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?