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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Passport Service: Senator Robbie Gallagher (9 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: I have listened to Senator Gallagher expressing his frustration about the failure of the recovery to have an impact on parts of rural Ireland, including County Monaghan. I am conscious that two days after the Brexit vote, a passport office in Belfast ran out of passport forms and had to place an emergency order for more forms. According to figures we have been given, 46,257 passport...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Passport Service: Senator Robbie Gallagher (9 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: When we are sending our letter to the Minister, perhaps we can ask him to tease out the idea of locating a passport office in Belfast. It is clear from the number of applications coming from Northern Ireland that there is a substantial level of demand there. It should not be a case of either Monaghan or Belfast. We should be able to make the case for both.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Consular Service: Motion (9 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: Senator Daly raises an important issue. I do not know the criteria for the selection of an honorary consul. One has an idea that in other countries that the selection of a consul is based on whether the person was a fundraiser for the party in government. I am not saying that is the way it operates in Ireland. I do not know the criteria of how we select a consul or the criteria for where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Consular Service: Motion (9 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: Just before we end the discussion, it is important that at some stage we put on the record our appreciation for all those people in those positions. We do not do that often enough. There can be a huge workload involved in just one case, not to mention a group of cases. Again, I would like to know the criteria but I can understand the reluctance to appoint people because if one wrong person...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Visa Agreements (9 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 150. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to possible changes to the J1 visa scheme for Irish citizens; if he discussed the issue on his recent visit to the USA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6525/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Immigration Controls (9 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 151. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if during his visit to the USA he raised the recent immigration regulation changes regarding the banning of citizens from seven Muslim majority countries from entering the USA; if he criticised the proposal; the details of the meetings he had; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6526/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (9 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 152. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Europe’s five largest pension funds (details supplied) have €7.5 billion invested in companies with business activities in and around illegal settlements in the Palestinian territories; and his views on whether all pension funds should disinvest from companies with business...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Investigations (9 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 153. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in January 2017 at least 13 human rights defenders were killed in Colombia (details supplied); and if he will raise this issue with his Colombian counterpart. [6528/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 181. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a decree that was passed by the Romanian Parliament that could free dozens of officials jailed for corruption (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6239/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (8 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 182. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has read a report from the Cairo Institute of Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) which states that a person (details supplied) and thousands of other peaceful protesters are being illegally imprisoned under the colonial era Assembly Law (Law 10/1914), that CIHRS has discovered was repealed on 30 January 1928; his views on the fact that...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 303. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied). [5534/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Immigration Controls (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 343. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the executive order signed by US President, Donald Trump, which bans citizens from seven Muslim majority countries from entering the USA; his further views on whether this order may violate the USA's obligations to accept persons seeking asylum on humanitarian grounds under the Geneva Convention; if he will examine the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 340. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the comments of the British Secretary of State, Mr James Brokenshire, on the 45th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when he intensified the British Government's public opposition to properly dealing with the past and that the British Government is trying to write itself out of its responsibility for the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 341. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a series of deaths at the Moria asylum camp on the Greek island of Lesbos and that aid agencies have long complained regarding the poor conditions at the camps; and if his Department will provide assistance to improve conditions in the camp. [5606/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Israeli Settlements (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 342. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to media reports that the EU Ambassadors to Palestine 2016 annual report said that the number of illegal Israeli settlers moving to occupied East Jerusalem is growing by 3% a year and that it blamed Israel for violence in occupied East Jerusalem; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 470. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a child to see an ophthalmologist in the National Children's Hospital; the longest time a child has had to wait; if some parents have been informed that it may take up to two years or longer; and the steps he proposes to introduce to reduce this long waiting list. [6022/17]

Other Questions: HSE Expenditure (1 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 33. To ask the Minister for Health the total subventions paid from the public HSE budget to general practitioners by supplement for employment of staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4570/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2017)

Seán Crowe: 122. To ask the Minister for Health to set down the total cost of recruitment for nurses and midwives recruited between December 2007 and December 2016; if he will provide this information in respect of recruitment from EU and non-EU countries, including the costs of any recruitment agency; the cost of HSE staff or voluntary hospital staff who travelled to conduct interviews and adaptation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Grants (31 Jan 2017)

Seán Crowe: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of the difficulty being experienced by many parents hoping to access funding from the Secondary Education Committee, which is means tested, he will outline the guidelines for the scheme; the level of a grant available to aid a person whose parents are on a certain income; the threshold for that income; the level of the grant to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Reports (31 Jan 2017)

Seán Crowe: 351. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has read the report by an organisation (details supplied), commissioned by his Department, to examine Irish Aid's programme in Uganda in 2010-2014, which was recently publicly released; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4021/17]