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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Expenditure (18 Sep 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Details of the annualised salary costs of my private and constituency offices and those of the Ministers of State in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in September 2011 and September 2012 are set out in the following tables. The variations arose due to the payment of salary scale increments or because of approved minor adjustments in staffing levels. Tánaiste and Minister for...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Adviser Code of Conduct (18 Sep 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Special Advisers are appointed under the terms of Section 11 of the Public Service Management Act, 1997 and are required to perform any duties that may be assigned to them from time-to-time by the relevant Minister as appropriate to the position held. Those duties include providing advice as well as monitoring, facilitating and assisting in the delivery of Government objectives relevant to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Transport (18 Sep 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The following table provides the details of costs for drivers and ground transport for Ministers of State at my Department for the period in question. The sum includes severance payments that arose due to the change in Government in 2011. My Department currently employs two Civilian Drivers. Ministerial transport costs, 1 February 2011 to September 2012 € Driver salaries,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Expenditure (18 Sep 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is responsible for two Votes – Vote 28 (Foreign Affairs) and Vote 27 (International Cooperation). The following table sets out the details of external reports commissioned under Vote 27 since February 2011 and the costs in each case. No external reports were commissioned under Vote 28. The table has been prepared by reference to directly...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Representations (18 Sep 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Notwithstanding his connections with Ireland, Mr. Trent Keegan was a citizen of New Zealand travelling on a New Zealand passport. While I am aware that the circumstances of Mr. Keegan’s death in Kenya remain unresolved, Ireland has no consular role or standing in this matter. I understand that the Honorary Consul of New Zealand has provided consular assistance to Mr. Keegan’s...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Labour Court Recommendations (18 Sep 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: There are no outstanding Labour Court recommendations relating to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. There are no State agencies under the Department’s aegis.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (18 Sep 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: A passport was issued to the person in question on 14 August, 2012. This was delivered to him by An Post on the next day.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Recruitment (18 Sep 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Although the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has its own recruitment licence issued by the Commission on Public Service Appointments, most recruitment to the Department is handled centrally by the Public Appointments Service using open competitions. The Deputy will appreciate that the number of new recruits to the Department in 2011 and 2012 to-date has been negligible. No officer...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Expenditure (18 Sep 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: My Department operates a network that includes 56 Embassies, 7 multilateral Missions and 10 Consulates General and other offices overseas. In addition to their country of primary accreditation, many Ambassadors are also accredited to additional countries on a non-resident basis. Ireland’s missions abroad perform a wide range of functions in pursuit of Ireland’s foreign policy...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (18 Sep 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Presidential election in Mexico took place on 1st July 2012. Enrique Peña Nieto, the candidate of the PRI - the Institutional Revolutionary Party - has been confirmed by the Mexican electoral authorities as the winner of the election and will take office on 1 December. Mexico’s legislative framework for elections is highly detailed and provides for independent and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (18 Sep 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I propose to take Questions Nos. 176 and 177 together. The agreement by the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to engage in official peace negotiations is a positive development that I warmly welcome. The launch next month of peace talks in Norway represents an important opportunity to bring an end to the long conflict that has caused much...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Representations (18 Sep 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: As I confirmed to the Deputy in previous replies in relation to this Irish citizen, my officials remain in close and direct contact with the wife and family of the person mentioned by him and they liaise directly with her on any request for assistance or on any development on his case. The Ambassador and officers in the Embassy in New Delhi, which is accredited to Sri Lanka, have also been...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Training (18 Sep 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade places a high priority on staff professional development and provides essential training programmes for staff in key areas such as management, communication and language skills, including Irish, and customer service. The Department also provides a comprehensive pre-posting training programme for officers in advance of taking up duty at Missions...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Appointments to State Boards (18 Sep 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I propose to take Questions Nos. 180 and 182 together. There are no state boards and no state agencies operating under the aegis of my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation Expenditure (18 Sep 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: As I have stated consistently, the decision to close the resident Embassy to the Holy See will not be reversed in the immediate term. However, in the context of the budgetary situation, I will continue to review the deployment of our diplomatic resources overseas. Any discussions with the Holy See on arrangements whereby it might be possible to re-establish a resident Embassy at a future...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Adviser Pay (18 Sep 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: No such salary increases have been requested or approved. Ms Jean O’Mahony received a salary increment of €3,286 on 10 March 2012 in line with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform guidelines relating to Special Advisers.

Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Passports Act 2008 states that the Minister shall, before issuing a passport to a child, be satisfied on reasonable grounds that each person who is a guardian of the child consents to the issue of a passport to the child. Section 6 of the Guardianship of Infants Act 1964 provides that married parents of a child are joint-guardians. Therefore if both are alive they are both required to...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland Issues: Northern Ireland Issues (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: In March 2011 the British Government, acting on behalf of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, initiated proceedings with the US Department of Justice under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty between the two countries for the release of archived interviews held in Boston College. The archives are part of the Belfast Project, an oral history of Republican and Loyalist paramilitaries...

Written Answers — North South Ministerial Council: North South Ministerial Council (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy will recall that on 28 May 2012 I replied to a letter from him in regard to this matter. Following consultation with the relevant Departments and agencies, the Joint Secretariat of the North South Ministerial Council (NSMC) wrote to Clones Town Council in November 2011 to explain that it was not in a position to arrange a meeting as requested. The reason for this was that the...

Written Answers — EU Presidency: EU Presidency (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The focus for the remainder of our OSCE Chairmanship will be on the preparations for the Dublin Ministerial Council, to take place from 6-7 December. We are taking forward the priorities which I have previously outlined to this House, ensuring balance and coherence across all three dimensions of the OSCE's work. Our aim for the Dublin Ministerial Council is to achieve concrete results,...