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Select Committee on Standing Order 112: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (8 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: Will we be considering the motion tomorrow?

Select Committee on Standing Order 112: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (8 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: In terms of the multinationals currently availing of tax avoidance measures, some of which will not come to an end until 2021, if this is introduced, will those measures remain in force for those companies? Will those special deals remain or will the measures come to an end overnight?

Select Committee on Standing Order 112: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (8 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: Everyone would agree that more transparency in this area is welcome. However, when one digs down, everyone has different views on what we mean by transparency. This is the difficulty with this proposal. The €750 million threshold is far too high. Ms Greene mentioned the recommendation to change this to 500 employees. On country-by-country reporting for MNC operations in EU...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (8 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: 352. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the European Commission's capacity building for security and development plans; if he is concerned that these plans will divert money that was previously earmarked for development and peace building to be spent on training and equipping military forces in fragile countries instead; his views on whether lobbyists for the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Briefing (8 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: 353. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will publicly release the full briefing materials that were provided to him by departmental officials on his first day of taking up his ministerial appointment. [14385/16]

Other Questions: Hospital Services (2 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: 8. To ask the Minister for Health why, as of 29 April 2016, only 234 of 301 new hospital beds were added to support the acute hospital system; the progress being made to date to increase capacity; the funding allocated and used to date for this purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13697/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (2 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: 102. To ask the Minister for Health why, as of 29 April 2016, only 116 of 154 previously closed hospital beds were re-opened; the reason there has not been further re-openings; the progress made to date to increase capacity; the funding allocated and used to date for this purpose. [13696/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (2 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: 121. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the number of members of An Garda Síochána assigned to and active in the Tallaght drugs unit in each of the years 2010 to 2015. [14045/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Partnership for Peace (2 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: 223. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the cost of Ireland's North Atlantic Alliance Partnership for Peace liaison office in Brussels, Belgium, in each of the years 2011 to 2014. [14046/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (31 May 2016)

Seán Crowe: 72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide year round visitor access to the cairns at Sliabh na gCailleach, Loughcrew, County Meath. [13268/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (31 May 2016)

Seán Crowe: 530. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the legal attacks that an organisation (details supplied) is facing and that it is facing a demand to disclose the identity of its testifiers who spoke out after Operation Protective Edge, which is an attempt to eliminate its testimony project; if he is further aware that this is part of wider organised and political...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft Landings (31 May 2016)

Seán Crowe: 531. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that a US Marine Corps military aircraft landed at Shannon Airport on 24 May 2016; if he granted permission for the aircraft to land at Shannon Airport; if he will agree that it is inconceivable that this aircraft was not carrying weapons and munitions, at the very least the personal arms of the crew and its military...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Colombian Peace Process (26 May 2016)

Seán Crowe: 4. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he raised the continued attacks and assassinations of civil society and community activists in Colombia during the discussion on Colombia at the meeting of the European Union Foreign Ministers on 18 and 19 April 2016; and if he will directly raise this issue with his Colombian counterpart. [12273/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Colombian Peace Process (26 May 2016)

Seán Crowe: Prior to Question Time today I wrote to the Minister and asked him to raise urgently and directly the cases of 30 political and community activists who have been assassinated in Colombia with the Colombian Government. The dead include 16 political activists, including trade unionists and 14 others who were active in the community. They were assassinated over the course of 30 days, which is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Colombian Peace Process (26 May 2016)

Seán Crowe: There is no doubt there have been considerable positive change in regard to Colombia, including the historic talks in Havana. There are positive elements but at the same time people are being executed. An attempt was made on the life of Imelda Daza, one of the leaders of the left wing Patriotic Union on Friday, 6 May. Such things are happening. We ask people to stand up for peace,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (26 May 2016)

Seán Crowe: Ibrahim Halawa has been in jail for 1,013 days. He is living in appalling conditions, with inedible food and is sleeping on a mat. He has no chance of a fair trial and is facing the death penalty. After that length of time, people are asking what can be done differently. He went missing within the prison system in Egypt. Our embassy was misled about his whereabouts. Has a formal...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (26 May 2016)

Seán Crowe: I again refer to the fact that he disappeared within the system. Has a formal complaint been made? The European External Action Service monitors trials in Egypt, yet it is not monitoring the trial of a European citizen. Has it been formally asked to attend a trial? That is something that could be done. We know that there have been communications from the UN calling for bail or...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (26 May 2016)

Seán Crowe: 2. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that a person (details supplied) has been unjustly imprisoned in Egypt for more than 1,000 days and faces an unfair mass trial; and if he has raised this case with his Egyptian counterpart since his re-appointment. [12272/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (26 May 2016)

Seán Crowe: 25. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a report of the meetings that he held when he visited Belfast on 18 May 2016; if he has any future engagements with political representatives planned; and his plans to support efforts to implement the unfulfilled commitments from previous Agreements. [11953/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (26 May 2016)

Seán Crowe: 27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of a new UNICEF report that confirms that 25 Palestinian children were killed in the past three months of 2015, and that the number detained was the highest in seven years; that the report also states that more than 1,300 Palestinian children were injured during this period, almost all in the West Bank and east Jerusalem;...