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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (28 Apr 2022)

Colm Brophy: A feature of the war on Ukraine is that 90% of those who have been forcibly displaced from their homes are women and children, which makes them highly vulnerable.  Among these vulnerabilities is that women's access to health and other social services has been severely impacted, and a tenet of the €20 million Irish Aid response to date has been to ensure that these women are...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (24 Mar 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...Statement on peace consolidation in West Africa of 17 August 2021, the Security Council strongly condemned continued attacks against civilians in the region, and both attacks and threats of attacks against schools, children, and educational personnel, including recent abductions in Nigeria. Additionally, Ireland is a member of the International Support Group of the Regional Stabilisation...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (24 Mar 2022)

Colm Brophy: Humanitarian contexts affect women and children more heavily. Evidence tells us that they are time and again disproportionately affected by conflict and natural disasters, exacerbating pre-existing gender norms and inequalities. Humanitarian crises disrupt family and social networks, change the roles played by different genders and break down protection structures. Existing inequalities...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (22 Mar 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...affected by the conflict, in particular refugee flows. Additional funding is being made available to the UNHCR and ICRC, together with dedicated funding for medical response through the WHO and for protection issues for women and children affected by conflict through UNICEF and UNFPA. A dedicated call for proposals for NGOs ready to respond is being launch.  Ukrainian civil...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (10 Mar 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...A key element is Ireland’s contribution to the EU development co-operation budget, as well as assessed and voluntary contributions to international organisations managed through other Government Departments. This year, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, which leads on national refugee response, will also account for a portion of...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (10 Mar 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...is quite short, particularly for young girls in developing countries, the impact of school closures of up to two years and the impact of non-attendance as a result of Covid have been devastating and children have not returned. In addition, there has been an horrendous corresponding increase in sexual violence in a whole host of areas as a result of the collapse of organised education....

International Women's Day: Statements (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Brophy: .... The initiative is supported by an equality budgeting expert advisory group, which brings together expert knowledge on how best to progress this important work. On 9 March 2021, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Minister for Finance announced that the Government had agreed to mainstream the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...CERF allocated more than €17.8 million to Ukraine. This year we will increase our annual contribution to the CERF from €10m to €11.5m, as I announced at the CERF pledging conference in December. The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth is the competent Department on refugees and works with relevant international bodies, including the...

Seanad: Situation in the Middle East: Statements (1 Mar 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...Israeli security forces are deeply disturbing. The UN Office for Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, has reported that between 25 January and 7 February alone, 215 Palestinians, including 28 children, were injured by Israeli forces in the West Bank. The killing of two Palestinian teenagers on 13 and 21 February were particularly shocking. As Ireland reiterated at the Security...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (27 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...for girls. Last year I announced a new pledge of €60 million for the Global Partnership for Education. This fund supports countries with the greatest education needs, targeting those with large numbers of children out of school, and weak school completion rates. Within those countries, it targets the most vulnerable and hardest to reach children. Children in conflict situations...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: Ireland consistently engages at EU and UN level on the issue of humanitarian support and the protection of women and children in conflict. Ireland also works closely with UN agencies, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs to save lives and deliver essential assistance in conflict zones. Ireland is a global champion of Women, Peace and Security and on the Security...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (27 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...Trust. Our partners in Afghanistan are implementing emergency response programmes to address the urgent needs of the population, including providing food aid, treatment for severe acute malnutrition in children, and other essential services. A donor-pledging conference on Afghanistan is likely to take place in March and Ireland will participate. Ireland is also contributing to the EU...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...peace consolidation in West Africa of 17 August 2021, the Security Council strongly condemned continued attacks against civilians in the region, and both attacks and threats of attacks against schools, children, and educational personnel, including recent abductions in Nigeria. Irish Aid provides funding to support those displaced by conflict in North-East Nigeria, where the numbers of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (26 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...globe. Schools closed in 194 countries and 1.6 billion students missed on classroom instruction, many for months. During the early days of the pandemic, Irish Aid helped countries to ensure continuity of education for all children, especially girls. We are now supporting partners to safely reopening schools, with improved facilities, and interventions to make up for learning losses. ...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Access (19 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...of €1 million made to UNICEF in December. These emergency response programmes are addressing the urgent needs of the population, including providing food aid, treatment for severe acute malnutrition in children, and other essential services. Ireland’s humanitarian funding to Afghanistan increased fivefold in 2021 to over €5 million – with the remainder provided...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Access (19 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: ...of €1 million made to UNICEF in December. These emergency response programmes are addressing the urgent needs of the population, including providing food aid, treatment for severe acute malnutrition in children, and other essential services. Ireland’s humanitarian funding to Afghanistan increased fivefold in 2021 to over €5 million – with the remainder provided...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (23 Nov 2021)

Colm Brophy: ...especially the dire situation in the south of the country where over 1.13 million people are facing acute food insecurity. This includes some 14,000 people facing famine-like conditions, and 500,000 children, aged 6 to 59 months suffering from acute malnutrition. Ireland has so far provided €500,000 to the UN's World Food Programme in Madagascar for the provision of life-saving...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (18 Nov 2021)

Colm Brophy: ...health reasons, 1.6 billion young people were unable to attend school for long periods, and some are still not back in school. These school closures exacerbated existing inequalities, with those children most marginalised before COVID-19 having highest risk of learning losses and permanently dropping out of education. Adolescent girls are particularly vulnerable. Early in the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (18 Nov 2021)

Colm Brophy: ...of peace in West Africa, of 17 August 2021, the UN Security Council strongly condemned continued attacks against civilians in the region, as well as attacks and the threats of attacks against schools, children, and educational personnel, including with regard to recent abductions in Nigeria. Ireland’s membership of the International Support Group for the Regional Stabilisation...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (2 Nov 2021)

Colm Brophy: ...be distributed across a number of ODA-disbursing Departments including the Department of Finance, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the Department of Health, and the Department of Children, Equality, Youth, Inclusion and Disability. It also includes an increase in Ireland's contribution to the EU development instrument, NDICI. As outlined in the Expenditure Allocations,...