Results 301-320 of 1,948 for speaker:Réada Cronin

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: I ask about Ireland’s €24.8 million contribution to the European Peace Facility - there is no irony in that name. We make a contribution for non-lethal support, mainly de-mining, but we also do small arms training. Are we training Ukrainian soldiers in explosives? I believe that to de-mine an area, you have to know how to make a mine. Are we training them in how to make a...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: They would become experts in EODs and IEDs as part of that training, would they not?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: Programme C includes €11.1 million for assessed contributions to the UN for Ireland’s share of peacekeeping costs. So far we have contributed 2,700 Defence Forces personnel to the UN Disengagement Observer Force mission in the Golan Heights in the past ten years. Will the Minister of State outline the benefits to Ireland and its Defence Forces and to the region of that mission?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: In the note, will the Minister of State state whether he considers it prudent, financially and diplomatically, that the mission is coming to an end?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: We are participating in that mission as opposed to contributing to the battle groups the EU favours. I do not agree with that. I would prefer us to be engaged in the UN mission, rather than in the EU battle groups. I ask the Minister of State to outline the benefits he believes we achieved from those ten years.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: I welcome the Minister of State. I thank him for his briefing and opening statement. Are we discussing Vote 27 first? Yes. Last week, the committee heard from stakeholders from Christian Aid, Trócaire and Concern. We have met many others over the years. They say there are so many crises at the moment internationally that there is a problem getting things talked about in the media....

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: Why?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: I did not mean to be rude to the Minister of State. I apologise.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: Passports were brought up. Senator Ó Donnghaile, who is a member of the joint committee, would kill me if I did not ask about a passport office for Belfast. Is there any sign of that or is the Department looking for premises?

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy Report: Statements (22 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am happy to speak on this report. As the Minister knows, in Sinn Féin we saw this consultative forum on international security policy as unnecessarily political and narrow. I attended the four days of the forum and contributed to each of the sessions. We made clear in our submission our vision and ambition for Ireland as a neutral and independent state, playing a key role in...

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy Report: Statements (22 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: In the context of our responsibilities as outlined in the report, I urge the Tánaiste to use every means open to him, to move heaven and earth, to stop the bombing of Gaza and the raids on the West Bank, and ensure that this ceasefire that was announced last night is permanent. It is six and a half weeks late but at least a ceasefire has been announced. Netanyahu did not want a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (21 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: This is a very important question for the Women of Honour. As the Tánaiste is aware, they were taken aback by what they felt was a trivialising of their request and the assertion that its inclusion in the terms of reference would make the process in question unworkable. I believe the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act is extremely important in our Defence Forces because a disparity...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Middle East (21 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: 72. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether the State is supplying and/or buying or selling arms from/to Israel, or any component parts of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50892/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: 62. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will include the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 in the terms of reference of the tribunal of inquiry, specifically in the context of the sensitive, significant matters and working circumstances raised by a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50893/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Budget 2024, Official Development Assistance, COP28 and Ongoing Humanitarian Situations: Dóchas (21 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: I was not well last week so I am interested to hear about loss and damage because we have touched on the matter in the climate committee. The witnesses spoke about reaching €1.5 billion per year by 2030 and then sustaining that sum forever. I thank them all for coming in and for the work they do. How are their aid workers abroad, particularly those in Gaza? The number of aid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Budget 2024, Official Development Assistance, COP28 and Ongoing Humanitarian Situations: Dóchas (21 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: How do the witnesses feel about aid workers being used as a fig leaf for the kind of wanton brutality that is being carried out by a democratic state?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Budget 2024, Official Development Assistance, COP28 and Ongoing Humanitarian Situations: Dóchas (21 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: What about the role aid organisations might have in the rebuilding of Gaza when the war ends?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Budget 2024, Official Development Assistance, COP28 and Ongoing Humanitarian Situations: Dóchas (21 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: As a politician, I should apologise because what is happening is a complete political failure. War, conflicts and power struggles happen, but this is an absolute political failure. The witnesses can take my apologies for that. Many psychological services will be needed as part of the rebuilding of Gaza. People will have disabilities as a result of amputations and all of that. Is there a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Budget 2024, Official Development Assistance, COP28 and Ongoing Humanitarian Situations: Dóchas (21 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: I ask Mr. MacSorley to talk to us about children in Sudan and what is happening there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Budget 2024, Official Development Assistance, COP28 and Ongoing Humanitarian Situations: Dóchas (21 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: Yes.