Results 4,601-4,620 of 8,600 for speaker:Seán Crowe

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: The Department is supposed to obtain the agreement of this committee, but if the committee does not have the necessary skills or the time to do so, it is a meaningless rubber-stamping job. In the years I have been a member of the committee we have simply rubber-stamped the spending of huge amounts of money, the expenditure of which was not really assessed by the committee. I am not saying...

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 was going to ask about the increase in pay, but it has been indicated that this programme has to do with Brexit. As section B.3 relates to the treaty, does it cover the issue of Ireland's involvement in the Permanent Structured Co-operation, PESCO, arrangement? In section B.4 there is a 185% increase in spending compared with the figure for 2017. Supposedly, it is to inform and engage...

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 wish we had more information there. I am fine with it but I would like to know exactly where, by organisation, the money is going. One does not get a sense of that at all.

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 have a query about subhead A5. Are we taking that now?

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: Subheads A1 and A2 are fine. With regard to A3 and the Africa section, I understand the focus is on the least developed countries, LDCs. Ireland met the UN target of spending at least 0.15% of its GNI on overseas development to LDCs in 2015. This does not seem to have happened in 2017. Will the Minister of State confirm that the target will be met in 2018? Do the figures include any...

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: What about the least developed countries in Africa and meeting the target?

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: Does the Minister of State believe we will achieve it in 2018?

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: On page 131 of the programme for Government, reference is made to rapid response units and severe weather warnings. I congratulate the emergency services, the hospital staff who made it into work, residents who cleared their areas and utility companies. Does the Minister accept that there is an information deficit on this? I do not get any sense of urgency when we come into Dublin city...

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: Are we learning anything from these storms and weather difficulties? What will we do differently the next time?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (21 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the business and human rights implementation group as required under the national plan on business and human rights 2017 to 2020 has been established; the composition of the group; and when it will commence its work. [8961/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (21 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has commissioned a baseline assessment of the legislative and regulatory framework pertaining to business and human rights here as committed to under the national plan on business and human rights 2017 to 2020; and when it will be completed. [8962/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (20 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount each local authority has budgeted for repair and maintenance of its housing stock in each year for the past four years; and the amount of housing stock each has in tabular form. [8226/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Data (20 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times each local authority has been to court as plaintiff against unauthorised developments in the past four years in tabular form. [8227/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Solar Energy Guidelines (20 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if solar farms need an environmental impact assessment before they can be built. [8228/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Asbestos Remediation Programme (20 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 602. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the assistance his Department is providing to families that have asbestos on their property to help mitigate against its future harm. [8229/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (13 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is growing concern for the health and well-being of a number of political prisoners in Bahrain (details supplied); and if he will raise the issues with his Bahraini counterpart. [6949/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (13 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 531. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce a consistent broadband service to persons (details supplied) in Dublin 24. [6988/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Senator Frances Black and Deputy Sean Sherlock. Are there any other apologies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: Attendees are welcome to our second meeting of 2018. We will today resume our discussions on legacy issues. In public session we will hear from Ms Judith Thompson, the Commissioner for Victims and Survivors.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: I would like to warmly welcome to our meeting Ms Judith Thompson, Commissioner for Victims and Survivors, and Mr. John Beggs, secretary to the Commission for Victims and Survivors. We will invite witnesses to give their opening statements, which will be followed by some questions from the committee. First, however, some notices are required. I remind members, guests and those in the...