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Topical Issue Debate: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: We all accept that the problem is getting worse. It is to be seen throughout the country. The first issue is that there is no real strategy outside of task force areas. I mentioned that key players are not sitting around the table. That needs to be addressed at Government level. Those stakeholders should be encouraged or forced to attend the meeting. There is positive work happening...

Topical Issue Debate: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: I will take just two more seconds. Four minutes is not enough to discuss this issue. We need a proper debate. This affects every Deputy and every person in the country.

Topical Issue Debate: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: I have tabled this Topical Issue matter because I want to discuss with the Minister of State the challenges faced by drugs task forces across the State as they prepare their multiannual strategic action plans. The official model we are using is outdated. It is based on a an opiate and heroin addiction policies and procedures model of 20 years ago and does not take into account or have...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: There are differing views on the budget, but its biggest failure was that there was no attempt to address areas in society such as health, education and housing that clearly were broken. Spreading a few euro here and there does not address them. The same applies to the Social Welfare Bill which we are discussing. Budget 2017 failed to tackle poverty and the inequalities throughout society....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Position of Member States on Withdrawal of the UK from the EU: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: Go raibh maith agat agus fáilte. The idea of today's meeting was to tease out ideas among ourselves and I do not know if this format is the best route. I listened to both submissions. The witnesses said the position is that there are huge challenges and we are into a difficult period, and that no negotiations are going to happen until Article 50 is triggered. I would like to focus on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal (8 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: 89. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 7 July 2016, if she has made the necessary appointments to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal; and if not, when it will be fully staffed and working at full capacity to review claims and appeals. [33448/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) has applied for funding to secure a permanent site on which the school was supposed to be constructed in June 2016; the reason for the delay; and when the work will be completed. [33446/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (8 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: 245. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the extremely tense and difficult environment for human rights defenders in Honduras currently; if his attention has been further drawn to the concern that an organisation (details supplied) has regarding the events that took place during a peaceful demonstration on 20 October 2016 in Tegucigalpa; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: 246. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to reports that the Israeli finance ministry has approved plans for the construction of 1,600 homes in the illegal Israeli settlement of Katzrin in the occupied Syrian Golan; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that the construction and expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied Syrian...

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...