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Topical Issue Debate: Northern Ireland (14 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: The report of the Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman found that special branch intelligence, paramilitary informants, were involved in a range of activities, including: command and control of loyalist paramilitaries; the procurement, importation and distribution of weapons; and murder and conspiracy to murder. They were not subject to any meaningful investigation. They were given a licence...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: EU Membership (14 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: 67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he met or will meet with his counterparts in the Northern Ireland Assembly and in the British Parliament to discuss the fall-out from a British exit from the European Union on cross-Border co-operation and on issues relating to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15621/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Election Monitoring (14 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: 335. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason the number of Irish overseas election observers has fallen in each of the years 2013 to 2016 to date. [15367/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Election Monitoring (14 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: 336. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the key criteria and skills necessary for service as an overseas election observer; the criteria used to select observers for specific assignments; if experience and qualifications for a particular mission is the most important factor or if he bases selection lists on the length of time since a person's last assignment. [15368/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Election Monitoring (14 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: 337. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason he did not send a long-term observer to monitor the June 2016 Mongolian elections, despite asking for applications; the target number of long-term and short-term observers he will deploy for the remainder of 2016; his plans to replace observers who have resigned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15369/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (14 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: 338. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the latest torture allegations that a person (details supplied) has made including details of gruesome treatment being meted out to prisoners; his views that the person's situation has clearly deteriorated; if he will respond to these reports as a matter of urgency; and immediately raise the person's treatment with their...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Agreements (14 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: 339. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the planned signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement between the Southern African Development Community, SADC, and the European Union which is due to take place on 10 June 2016; that the agreement will be provisionally applied from 1 October 2016; his views that it will be provisionally applied by the SADC countries...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (14 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: 382. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has discussed the option of selecting a fixed Sunday in the year for the National Famine Commemoration Day with the National Famine Commemoration Committee; and if this decision will be taken soon. [15404/16]

Select Committee on Standing Order 112: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (9 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: I do not really agree with it but will abide by the majority view. I think there are some contradictions in what we are saying.

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...