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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pesticide Use (27 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 461. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the European Commission’s Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food, and Feed will meet in March 2018 to discuss a report from the European Food Safety Authority regarding the dangers that neonicotinoid pesticides pose to native bee populations; and his views regarding the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (27 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: 502. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the length of time residents living in rural amber areas of Tallaght and Rathfarnham will be waiting for the roll-out of broadband services. [13754/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: There are several matters I want to raise in private session, for which I ask members to wait after the public session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: I welcome Professor Duncan Morrow, lecturer in politics and director of community engagement at Ulster University; Professor Kieran McEvoy, professor of law and transitional justice in the School of Law and senior research fellow at the Institute of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen's University, Belfast; and Dr. Anna Bryson, senior lecturer in the School of Law, Queen's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: Normally, three members ask questions to which delegates then respond. The first speaker is Senator Frank Feighan who will be followed by Deputy Declan Breathnach and Mr. Chris Hazzard, MP.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: A victims group recently made the point to us about the difficulty it has in relation to some of its members who are in a bad way physically and mentally. They worry about welfare changes that might be coming in the future and that there is no definition of who is a victim. The witnesses were speaking earlier about who decides what is important. I would like to think collectively as a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: I thank the witnesses. It is clearly a complex area of work. We appreciate their help today in answering questions so comprehensively. I wish them well in the future with the work, which is valuable in assisting us to understand the complex issues that face this joint committee and others in dealing with the past. We appreciate their time and effort here today. If there is something they...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: On page 144 of the programme for Government, the European Court of Human rights yesterday rejected a request by Ireland to find that the so-called hooded men who were arrested by the British authorities suffered torture in a British army camp. I am sure the Taoiseach shares my disappointment that the court did not revise its judgment and correct the record. Fourteen men were subjected to...

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

Seán Crowe: 31. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) has been sentenced to prison for criticising the Bahraini Government; his views on the prosecution and sentence; his further views on whether it demonstrates that the Bahraini Government will go to severe lengths to crackdown on free speech; and if he will raise...

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...