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Order of Business (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: In regard to section A of the legislative programme, is it intended to prioritise any particular or urgently required aspects of the proposed Bills in this session? My second question relates to the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill to enable management by the State Claims Agency of claims for third party legal costs arising from tribunals and commissions of inquiry and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which it is intended to use Ireland’s influence in the course of its Presidency of the EU to positively influence the situation in Syria with particular reference to the urgent need for a major humanitarian input from the EU and its member states in association with the UN and the worldwide community with...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Presidency Programme (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will, during the course of Ireland’s Presidency of the EU, encourage his EU colleagues to rediscover the original vision of Europe as set out by Monnet, Schuman, Adenauer and others with particular reference to the urgent need to ensure that European leaders speak with a common cause and purpose, mindful of the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Export Statistics (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he expects an improvement in trade with various countries throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America in the coming years with particular reference to the need to use such trade as a vehicle for economic recovery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1945/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Export Statistics (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the countries worldwide with which Ireland recorded greatest improvement in the expansion of trade and commercial activity in 2012; his objectives in this regard in the coming year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1946/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his colleagues at EU and UN level can highlight the bravery of Ms Malala Yousufzai and her efforts to achieve education for women and girls in Pakistan and other regions worldwide; if the international community can use the attack on her life and her on-going recovery as a means of bringing positive...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the international community can assist through the medium of the EU and the UN to improve women’s rights in Pakistan; if specific objectives have been set out or will be set out in this regard; the extent, if any, to which he sees a role for the smaller countries in the EU and elsewhere being...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which, at EU and UN level, he and his colleagues are in a position to focus attention on the rape and sexual assaults on women and girls worldwide regardless of nationality or culture with particular reference to the most recent incidents in India; if international pressure can be brought on all countries with a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which efforts continue to be made to bring about a cessation of violence and the provision of support for aid workers in Syria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1937/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he continues to become alerted to the difficulties faced by the Red Cross, Medicins San Frontieres and all aid workers and their agencies currently operating or attempting to operate in war zones or unrest in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere; if he anticipates any particular improvements in this...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which efforts are being made to set up permanent structures to engage with all the protagonists in the Middle East conflict with particular reference to the need to ensure access to outside independent agencies to deal with on-going issues and avert new confrontations or the potential for such confrontation; and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he has been reassured that overseas development aid continue to reach those for whom it was intended and that recompense is made in situations where this is not the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1940/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current situation in the top ten most sensitive locations worldwide which continue to suffer from war, starvation, famine, genocide, ethnic cleansing and human rights abuses; the degree to which it remains possible to deliver aid and support to the people in such cases; the extent to which deterrents such as referral to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which the international community can bring about positive influence on the protagonists in the various war-torn regions in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1942/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the international community continues to monitor the continued incarceration of former Prime Minister of the Ukraine, Yulio Tymoshenko; the extent of efforts, if any at international level to bring about her release; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1943/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he continues to be in a position to focus attention on hunger, famine, starvation and war associated atrocities throughout Africa; if he will set out the main locations for concern in this regard and the extent to which success can be expected in bringing about an improvement in the situation thereat in...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undocumented Irish in the USA (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he might envisage progress in any discussions with the US authorities in regard to the possibility of addressing the issue of the undocumented Irish in the United States; if it might be possible on an annual or piecemeal basis to draw up a procedure whereby an agreed number of regularisations could be...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his EU and UN colleagues continue to monitor the persecution of citizens attempting promote democracy at various locations throughout the globe; the extent if any of an agreed strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1948/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Policy Group (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he and his EU colleagues can reach consensus on the various issues now affecting the European Union with particular reference to economic and fiscal policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1949/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Alcohol Pricing (16 Jan 2013)

Bernard Durkan: To ask the Minister for Finance his future plans if any, to help alleviate hardship on publicans whose businesses have been adversely affected by the increase in the price of alcoholic beverages in recent years and the unregulated competition from large retail chains; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57989/12]