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Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (28 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: I am conscious of the pressure at Government level here and in London, but are there talks taking place at official level between the Irish and British Administrations and the political parties in Northern Ireland on the need to progress talks to have the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive restored? The last time the Minister was here he did not indicate any optimism about when the...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (28 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: We will move on to programme B.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (28 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: We will move on to programme C.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (28 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: Programme D is next.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (28 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: Will we move to programme E?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (28 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: Programme F is appropriations-in-aid.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (28 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister of State. We all welcome the substantial increase for funding in the 2019 allocation. I am sure it will be put to good use in some of the most deprived parts of the world. I call Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (28 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: I call Deputy Ó Snodaigh.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (28 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: I welcome the substantial increase in funding and we realise it will be put to very good use through direct programmes and the assistance to the various non-governmental organisations, as well as other international organisations. On behalf of the committee I take this opportunity to thank the many Irish people and their international colleagues who work in some of the most difficult areas...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (28 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: Are we involving the agriscience departments of our institutes of technology and universities in this regard?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Message to Dáil (28 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for public services for the year ending 31 December 2019: Vote 27 - International Co-operation and Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade. Under Standing Order 89(2), the...

Beef Sector: Motion (27 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: I will share time with Deputies O'Loughlin and McConalogue. Deputy Scanlon may not make it to contribute due to being delayed at an earlier meeting. I am glad of the opportunity to make a short contribution on this important Private Members' motion, put forward by my colleagues. The motion contains 14 detailed measures. They are realistic and essential proposals, which need to be...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (26 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: 244. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to implement pension provisions for community employment supervisors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12784/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (26 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: 588. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress to date in the identification of sites as being suitable for the location of large-scale data centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12729/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists (26 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: 617. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults, respectively, waiting for initial speech and language and occupational therapy assessments in counties Cavan and Monaghan; if additional resources are being provided in 2019 to reduce the waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12785/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (13 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: 40. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide adequate respite services for adults and children with disabilities in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12216/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Garda Deployment (12 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: 8. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 261 and 262 of 22 January 2019, if consideration will be given to the provision of additional staffing and financial resources to the Border region in 2019 in view of concerns about Brexit and ongoing cross-Border criminality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11996/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Brexit Preparations (12 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: 26. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the need to provide additional staffing resources to the Border region in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11997/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadcasting Sector (12 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: 543. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 435 of 5 March 2019, if he has raised with the European Commission the need to implement the recommendations of the Report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and the Environment on the Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting and the need to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (7 Mar 2019)

Brendan Smith: 39. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department and the agencies under her remit have ongoing contact with their counterparts in Northern Ireland for the protection of business and employment in the Border region, both North and South, due to the uncertainties that have arisen due to Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11232/19]