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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: I think we will take up the offer of the meeting with Department officials first. If we need some other follow-up we can pursue it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: Before I call on the Minister of State, Deputy Canon, for his concluding reply, I will repeat what Deputies O'Sullivan and Grealish said about our visit to Malawi and Mozambique. It was my first visit to that part of Africa, and it was a real learning curve to see the levels of deprivation, poverty and hunger, and the desire of people to get a better way of life. The hunger for education...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister of State. I want to put on the record our appreciation to the ambassadors of Malawi and Mozambique and their support staff. I also thank Elaine Hollowed from the Department, who has been most helpful. With regard to leveraging the potential of the private sector, the major representative organisations are good at lobbying the Government on many issues, as we all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: The Department cannot be going to every operator and private sector entity. The representative organisations might be able to have a particular platform

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: Yes. I thank the Minister of State for his engagement.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Illicit Trade in Fuel and Tobacco Products (30 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce additional measures to deal with the cross border smuggling of illicit products such as tobacco and diesel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50800/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Issues (30 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance the outcome of discussions his Department and the Revenue Commissioners have had with their counterparts in Northern Ireland and Britain in relation to the need to minimise to the greatest extent possible the adverse impacts of Brexit and to ensure the continuation of the existing co-operation between the statutory agencies North and South; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Stroke Care (30 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: 141. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 9 November 2017, the details of the working group set up by the national stroke programme to develop guidelines in relation to mood in stroke; the membership of this group; the timeframe for the completion of the guidelines; the supports that will be put in place to ensure that the availability of counselling...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Reform (30 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation to give effect to the recommendations for Dáil Éireann constituencies in the constituency commission report 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51296/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (30 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a decision has been reached in relation to the implementation of measures to ensure equitable treatment of persons and group water schemes and persons on public water supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51302/17]

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's Participation in European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (29 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: The purpose of the meeting is to consider the motion that was referred to the select committee on the joint procurement arrangement for the EU SatCom market and the European Centre for Manual Neutralisation Capabilities, pursuant to section 2 of the Defence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009. Under the terms of the Dáil motion of 21 November, the committee must consider the matters...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's Participation in European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (29 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: We all will have new words and phrases in our vocabulary after that statement.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's Participation in European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (29 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: On a point of clarification, the Dáil referred it to us for consideration. It goes back to the Dáil tomorrow.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's Participation in European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (29 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: No, it was referred to us.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's Participation in European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (29 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: It goes back to the Dáil tomorrow.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's Participation in European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (29 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: That is okay. It was just a clarification.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's Participation in European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (29 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister of State. I will comment briefly before Deputy Ó Snodaigh contributes. I share the views expressed by Deputies Maureen O'Sullivan and Seán Barrett on neutrality and the respect that our policy has garnered for Ireland throughout the world over the decades. The views expressed by the Deputies are often aired at meetings of the joint committee. The particular...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's Participation in European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (29 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister of State for engaging with members who raised important issues in the discussion. We will have meetings in 2018 particularly regarding the European dimension to allay any fears we in the Oireachtas, and that members of the public have.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Message to Dáil (29 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: In accordance with Standing Order 90 the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade and Defence has completed its consideration of the following motion: That Dáil Éireann approves Ireland's participation in two European Defence Agency Projects – (1) Joint Procurement Arrangement for EU SatCom Market and (2) European...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (29 Nov 2017)

Brendan Smith: 63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the entitlements of persons to a State pension (contributory) whose insurance contributions records were interrupted due to periods in receipt of farm assist while farm incomes were low; if the periods that persons were on farm assist can be credited for insurance contribution purposes; and if she will...