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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Media Freedom in Turkey: National Union of Journalists (3 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: Is it the case that all those present at this meeting probably would be arrested if this discussion were taking place in Turkey? It is a candidate country for EU accession. We are discussing the arrest and treatment of journalists in Turkey and that is a reflection of what is happening in society there. Following the coup, the Turkish Government has been able to put forward excuses for what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Media Freedom in Turkey: National Union of Journalists (3 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: Mr. Carson indicated some requests of the Turkish Government. They all seem very reasonable. Perhaps after the meeting we could possibly agree a motion related to the letter. It requests the release of journalists and it was read into the record today. The requests involve nothing radical and conform to European norms with respect to how we would like to see journalists operate in a free...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Statement of Strategy: Motion (3 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: I think the proposal is entirely reasonable. The Green Paper on Defence wrongly states that Ireland's traditional policy of military neutrality has its origins in the country's declared neutrality during the Second World War. Many of us from a republican tradition argue that the Irish impulse to neutrality far predates that. We maintain it goes back to the time of Wolfe Tone. He produced...

Calais Migrant Camp: Statements (2 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: Four, four, four and three.

Calais Migrant Camp: Statements (2 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: First, I am disappointed with the Ministers' speeches tonight. They have not captured the mood in the country. They certainly have not captured the mood of the view of Deputies on all sides of the House. We do not want to hear that, as a small country, we cannot do this. What people want to hear tonight is what we can do and we want to hear it from the Ministers before the end of this...

European Council: Statements (26 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: I asked a series of questions and I did not get one answer.

European Council: Statements (26 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: The Acting Chairman is asking for more questions, but we have not got answers to the first lot. It is crazy.

European Council: Statements (26 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: Perhaps the Minister of State could ask about a note I had asked of the Taoiseach on the migration crisis. I have asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade at various venues if he would come up with a note. I believe the Taoiseach was indicating that he might be able to supply the House with that.

European Council: Statements (26 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: The migration crisis. The asylum process is clearly broken in Ireland and other European countries. There is a problem in Italy, for example, around the system there. There is a handful of people coming from Greece but there are clearly problems there. I, and other Members, meet people every day who are asking about what Ireland is doing with regard to the crisis. We would like to know...

European Council: Statements (26 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: Reference is also made to the fact that migration has dropped off but will the Minister of State confirm that the October death toll had reached the same as the death toll from October last year? We are now approaching November and we still have December coming up. With people taking much more dangerous routes to get into Europe, unfortunately more and more people are dying.

European Council: Statements (26 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: During the pre-Council statements, I raised the pressure the Parliament of Wallonia was under to ratify CETA. Many parties in Europe would see this decision by a small region as an irritant or democracy gone mad. I see it, however, as a victory for democracy and citizens all over Europe who have campaigned hard to defeat CETA. Speaking of democracy, it is also regrettable the Government...

European Council: Statements (26 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: Hear, hear.

Priority Questions: Humanitarian Access (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: 24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department is assisting in efforts to open a humanitarian corridor to allow aid to reach the besieged civilians of eastern Aleppo and other besieged areas in Syria; and the efforts his Department is undertaking to help to establish a durable and lasting ceasefire in this conflict which is nearly six years old. [32024/16]

Priority Questions: Humanitarian Access (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: We had a long debate last Thursday on the situation in Syria, prior to which I had tabled this question. I am trying to find out the specific efforts in which Ireland is assisting to help to open humanitarian corridors in besieged areas of Syria. What specific initiatives are we supporting or involved in? I heard what the Minister said about the figure of €62 million. We give aid...

Priority Questions: Humanitarian Access (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: We all agree that this is one of the worst humanitarian disasters in recent times. From the debate, we all agree that we are appalled at the savage aerial bombardment of eastern Aleppo by the Syrian and Russian armies and the bombing of Kurdish areas in northern Syria by the Turkish army. We all agree that all sides urgently need to establish a ceasefire and use their influence to broker a...

Priority Questions: Humanitarian Access (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: A key aspect on which we have not touched in dealing with the humanitarian crisis is the increase in the number of Syrian refugees relocating and resettling here. Today my colleague, Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh, organised a briefing in the AV room with the Irish Refugee Council which is concerned that Ireland is not doing enough to assist refugees. In the past two weeks we have...

Priority Questions: Human Rights (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: It is clear from the comments from the Conservative Party conference that they are trying to reduce the human rights oversight of their actions. We know only too well the human rights abuses committed by British soldiers in the past conflict in Ireland. An opt-out for the British Army of this part of the convention is reprehensible. I have listened to what the Minister has said with regard...

Priority Questions: Human Rights (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: They may say these things privately to the Minister but publicly they talk about the primacy of British law and so forth. That is the worry. The Minister may or may not have read the report compiled by the law firm Kevin Winters and Company on the potential effects of the repeal of the Human Rights Act. The report says that restricting the role and influence of the European Court in...

Priority Questions: Human Rights (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: 22. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the fact that the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May, has stated that she will seek to exclude the British army from the European Convention on Human Rights during future conflicts; his further views on the fact that this is just one step on the road to the British Government’s attempt to completely repeal the...

Priority Questions: Human Rights (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: At the Conservative Party conference at the beginning of the month, the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May, and the Defence Secretary, Mr. Michael Fallon, stated that they were planning to ensure that the British army would opt out, in other words be excluded, from the European Convention on Human Rights during future conflicts. This is a clear case of Britain waiving the rules. Does...