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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UN Human Rights Council (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on Ireland’s participation in the 37th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council to date; the issues Ireland’s representatives have raised; and if Ireland has raised or will raise the deteriorating human rights situation in Bahrain at this Session. [11914/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Capital Expenditure Programme (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 40. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the capital allocation for his Department in each of the years 2019 to 2023; the areas in which this will be spent in each of these years, by particular projects and areas of investment. [12376/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding allocated to the delivery of the passport reform programme project in each of the years 2019 to 2023; the estimated cost of delivering the programme; and the expected timeframe for completion of the programme. [12377/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Global Footprint Initiative (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 42. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding allocated to the delivery of the doubling the global footprint initiative in each of the years 2019 to 2023; the estimated cost of delivering the initiative; and the expected timeframe for completion of the initiative. [12378/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications Refusals (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to cases in which Irish citizens were leaving the State for the purposes of conversion or reparative therapies; if his Department has attempted to cease or advise against travel for such an activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12379/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Lobbying Data (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 44. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister, Gilad Erdan, has informed an Israeli newspaper (details supplied) that he is actively lobbying a 75% taxpayer-owned bank (details supplied) here to close the accounts of a group; if he has been personally lobbied by an Israeli Minister on this issue; his views...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to reports that Israeli forces disguised as Palestinian students entered Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank of Palestine and abducted the head of the university's student council on 7 March 2018 (details supplied); if he will speak out against this operation and aggression; and if he will contact...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 130. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the report on the costings of pay equality (details supplied) will be published. [12014/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by pupils attending a school (details supplied); if the site has been identified as a priority site by the school capital appraisal section; when the conveyancing process will commence; when it will be completed; and if it has been or will be passed to the major projects...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department advises schools on the percentage of children with complex special educational needs such as autism spectrum disorder that is safe to include in a mainstream class in primary school; if there is a tipping point; and his views on whether there should be a balance of children with and without special educational needs in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the special needs unit in a school (details supplied) will open in September 2018; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the school will have a further ten junior infant children with autism spectrum disorder starting school in September in addition to high numbers of pupils with complex needs in large junior and senior...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to approve the immediate opening of one special class in a school (details supplied) in view of the long waiting list of children with autism requiring places in special classes in Firhouse and the surrounding areas; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that opening a special class now would alleviate the pressure on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 621. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for spinal surgery in Tallaght Hospital; and the procedures that are on hold through lack of funding for the HSE winter initiatives scheme that is impacting on these procedures [12643/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 622. To ask the Minister for Health when the introduction of the FreeStyle Libre device will be made available on the long-term illness scheme to all type 1 diabetes patients based on clinical need [12644/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 670. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by a person (details supplied); if his attention has been further drawn to the waiting time for a first appointment; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some patients have been referred to the Mater Hospital; and when a new surgeon will be in place in Tallaght Hospital. [12901/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mobile Telephony Use (20 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 781. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to make it mandatory for persons to produce photo identification in order to buy a SIM card for a mobile phone. [11912/18]

Diaspora Issues: Statements (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: I wish to share time with Deputy Ó Broin. There are approximately 70 million citizens across the globe who claim Irish roots and a link to Ireland. While it is a small island, we are a considerable nation scattered across the continents. Over the centuries, generations of Irish have been forced to leave our homeland to find work and the opportunities to make a better future for...

Diaspora Issues: Statements (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: The lack of opportunity, promotion and work forced hundreds of thousands of our citizens to emigrate over the past ten years. This was exacerbated by the austerity measures implemented by Fine Gael and Labour. Many of our young people, who lost their jobs or had no opportunity to build a life or career here, left. Then, just like now, there was no expectation among large sections of our...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: I welcome the Minister and the Minister of State. I wish to start on a negative note, which will be of no surprise to the Minister. Members yesterday received a briefing note from the Department which outlined that the overall gross Estimate for Votes 27 and 28 is €738 million, as the Minister stated, but we have no independent analysis of how that money is being spent. I have...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: A 50% increase in the allocation for diaspora affairs is substantial, but we do not get a sense of where it is being spent. That is the difficulty.