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Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Business of Select Committee (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: All mobile phones must be turned off as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment. This meeting has been convened to consider Committee Stage of the Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017 and Committee Stage of the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: I welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Simon Coveney, and his officials. As this is the first time he has attended the committee, I wish him well in his role. The members of the committee look forward to working with him in a genuine spirit of partnership and co-operation.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: Deputy Seán Crowe submitted an amendment that was ruled out of order. As such, we cannot discuss its content.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: The Deputy should focus in his comments on the section rather than the subject matter of his disallowed amendment.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: On a point of clarity, neither the Minister nor the Department was involved in ruling the Deputy's amendment out of order. That decision fell to me as Chairman of the committee and was made on the basis that the proposal would involve a potential charge on the Exchequer. Only a Minister or a Minister of State may bring forward an amendment that has a revenue or expenditure implications.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: As the Bill has completed Committee Stage, it is recommended that members submit Report Stage amendments to the Bills Office without delay as Report Stage may be tabled at short notice.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Message to Dáil (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence has completed its consideration of the Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017 and has made amendments thereto.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: We might put a time limit on this.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Message to Dáil (24 Oct 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 Protection of Cultural Property in the event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016 and has made no amendments thereto. I thank the Minister and his officials for attending the committee. It...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Message to Dáil (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister. Our committee had much engagement with his predecessor, Deputy Charles Flanagan, and Department officials regarding Ibrahim Halawa and we are all very glad he is back home in Ireland. We wish him well into the future. We want to record our appreciation for the officials in the consular section of the Department who met us on numerous occasions and briefed us. We had...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidelines in place in respect of substitution or replacement cover for local authority members who are also primary and post-primary school teachers in view of the fact that his Department's circulars state they are entitled to ten days leave per school year for local authority duties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44621/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy Implementation (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 273. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 157 of 5 July 2017, the additional services that will be provided in 2018 in relation to the provision of community supports for persons with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44975/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe for the introduction of planned changes in the payment of allowances in respect of expenses incurred by members of local authorities as announced in January 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44622/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Reserve (24 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: 435. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 700 of 23 May 2017, the progress that has been made in relation to the holding of a competition for promotion from captain to commandant within the Reserve Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44935/17]

Topical Issues: Emergency Departments Services (19 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. If the small project I mentioned were to be provided eight more cubicles and minor surgery could be provided in that accommodation. That would cost less than €1 million. That would ease the pressure considerably on the staff in the emergency department and provide better facilities for the patients who are our number one consideration. ...

Topical Issues: Emergency Departments Services (19 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: In May 2014 I instigated a Topical Issue debate on the need to provide a new emergency department at Cavan General Hospital. The hospital opened in June 1989 and since then the number of patients presenting at the emergency department has grown substantially. That particular debate, to which the then Minister for Health, Senator Reilly, replied at the time, highlighted the need to provide...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (19 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: I commend Deputy Marcella Corcoran-Kennedy for commenting in her concluding remarks on the positive role Fianna Fáil played in strongly advocating for a number of measures which are being implemented in budget 2018. My colleague, Deputy Frank O'Rourke, has referred to the National Treatment Purchase Fund, the increases in social welfare payments and the additional funding for other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review (Resumed) (19 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: In the first part of our meeting, we will meet representatives from Dóchas, to whom I extend a welcome. The committee agreed as part of its work programme for 2017 to review the work of Irish Aid, particularly the overseas development aid programme and the way it has been used to date to deliver added value in communities around the world. This is the second in a series of meetings...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review (Resumed) (19 Oct 2017)

Brendan Smith: I thank Mr. Meehan. I call Mr. MacSorley.