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Topical Issue Debate: Military Neutrality (20 Jun 2017)

Seán Crowe: I quote from the reflection paper from 7 June which the Minister of State may not have seen. We have our priorities all wrong regarding Europe. When I and my colleague, Deputy Ó Snodaigh, brought forward a Bill to enshrine neutrality into Bunreacht na hÉireann, we were repeatedly and wrongly told that the Constitution already protects Irish neutrality. In that debate, the...

Topical Issue Debate: Military Neutrality (20 Jun 2017)

Seán Crowe: In what is seen as a massive step towards the creation of a standing EU army, the European Commission has stated it will now spend €1.5 billion a year on joint defence spending. This will be financed from the annual EU budget. It is the first time that money from the EU's budget will be directly used to buy military equipment and on joint defence capabilities. People are aware of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (20 Jun 2017)

Seán Crowe: 439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in giving permission to a club (details supplied) in Tallaght, Dublin 24, in conjunction with a school to carry out proposed building work on lands currently under the control of his Department; if it is a shortage of staff in a particular section of his Department that is causing the years of delay; and if his...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (20 Jun 2017)

Seán Crowe: 440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which a club (details supplied) in Tallaght, Dublin 24, first contacted his Department seeking an agreement to build on lands currently under the control of his Department adjoining the club and a community school; and the length of time it is expected to wait until official permission is granted to begin the work. [26743/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Correspondence (20 Jun 2017)

Seán Crowe: 508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received correspondence from a group (details supplied) dated 20 December 2016 regarding the lumper schools project; if he has replied to the correspondence and the proposal; and if not, when a reply will issue. [27432/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (20 Jun 2017)

Seán Crowe: 517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties and the physical conditions of the classrooms being experienced by students and staff in a school (details supplied); and if his attention has been further drawn to a verbal agreement made by his Department to the school prior to the original sharing of the school site. [27524/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (20 Jun 2017)

Seán Crowe: 518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to upgrade the school premises at a school (details supplied). [27525/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (20 Jun 2017)

Seán Crowe: 519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will visit a school (details supplied) in order to view the school in the near future. [27526/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (20 Jun 2017)

Seán Crowe: 683. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has undertaken a review into the way in which Ireland allocates its ODA to multilateral organisations in view of the Government's announcement that it expects its annual contribution to a bank (details supplied) to count towards its overseas development assistance (ODA), the impact of such allocations and his plans to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (20 Jun 2017)

Seán Crowe: 684. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland met the UN target of spending at least 0.15% of its gross national income on overseas development assistance to less development countries in 2015 and 2016; and if it is expected to reach this target in 2017 and 2018. [27115/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (20 Jun 2017)

Seán Crowe: 685. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the Sri Lankan Government's active suppression of the right of Tamil war survivors and families of victims to remember those that died in the recent conflict on that island; if his attention has been further drawn to the continued police harassment of a person (detail supplied); if he will condemn the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (20 Jun 2017)

Seán Crowe: 690. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) was tortured, sexually assaulted, verbally abused and threatened with rape by the Bahraini police on 26 May 2017 and that this occurred due to the human rights work they have undertaken; and if his office will urgently raise this case with his Bahraini...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (20 Jun 2017)

Seán Crowe: 696. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to Israel's decision to reduce the supply of electricity to Gaza and that the reduction of electricity supplied by Israel to Gaza will cause a certain worsening of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza; and if he will urgently raise his objection to the reduction of this fundamental supply with his Israeli...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (20 Jun 2017)

Seán Crowe: 1059. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with representatives of a group (details supplied) to discuss the appointment of a new expert medical oncologist with sarcoma specific experience equal to or greater than the expert that previously treated patients at St Vincent's University Hospital. [26741/17]

Report on Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Motion (1 Jun 2017)

Seán Crowe: Like other speakers, I commend the Deputies and Senators on the joint committee who contributed to this important debate and to the report on the recognition of Traveller ethnicity. I have difficulty pronouncing the word "ethnicity", although I have no difficulty with what we are discussing. It is one of those words that cause difficulty and I have no doubt that it will probably arise about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Seán Crowe: As Deputy Adams has outlined, this Bill has two main elements. First, it proposes to amend the Constitution to extend the voting franchise in Presidential elections to Irish citizens in Northern Ireland and to the Irish diaspora. Second, it proposes that the voting age in Presidential elections should be lowered to 16. I do not think there should be much confusion about the issues covered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Seán Crowe: I thank members for their comments and questions. Deputy Coppinger asked about the Bill itself and whether it applies to people who are resident here but who are not entitled to vote at the moment. The Bill will change the Constitution. The Deputy asked if it could be more ambitious and perhaps it could be but what we are trying to do is to get it over the line. We want to get it agreed....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014 [Private Members']: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Seán Crowe: I thank the Chair and apologise for Deputy Adams being late.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: EU Agreements (30 May 2017)

Seán Crowe: 54. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the European Commission's efforts to renegotiate a new protocol with Morocco; and the safeguards that the Government will require from the European Commission to ensure the negotiations are in full conformity with the European Court of Justice ruling of 21 December 2016 in Polisario v. Council notably in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: EU Agreements (30 May 2017)

Seán Crowe: As the Minister knows, I am extremely concerned about the efforts of the EU Commission to renegotiate or rebrand an adaption of the protocols of association agreement between the EU and Morocco. I am trying to find out the safeguards the Irish Government will require from the European Commission to ensure that negotiations are in full conformity with the ruling of the European Court of...