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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (7 Oct 2014)

Seán Crowe: 488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an updated report, per school, of the proposed new builds that cover the Dublin South West constituency area; and developments regarding the identification of sites, planning, and advertising and procurement for a builder. [38066/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (7 Oct 2014)

Seán Crowe: 489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an updated report regarding the development and identification/selection of a proposed new site for a second level school (details supplied) in Dublin 24. [38067/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Newly Elected Irish MEPs: Discussion (2 Oct 2014)

Seán Crowe: I have an appointment at 3 p.m. but I hope to return to the meeting. I cannot miss the opportunity to mention the fact that two of the MEPs are based in Dublin South-West and I wish them both well. Both MEPs know of the difficulties in the area, with high unemployment, in particular youth unemployment. People will expect them to deliver and come up with the goods and some ideas. Both MEPs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Emigrant Register: Crosscare Migrant Project (1 Oct 2014)

Seán Crowe: Mr. O'Brien mentioned the use of that register for people who go into areas where there is a level of risk but that register would be a useful contact for people who go to the United States in the event of situation arising during the hurricane season or some other such situation. A newspaper in the United States organised for Irish people to go into a traditional Irish place in New York...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Emigrant Register: Crosscare Migrant Project (1 Oct 2014)

Seán Crowe: I welcome the delegation. We share the same position in that we all see the positive elements in the proposal. Crosscare has two jobs to do. First, it must sell the register to us and to the Department. I presume the only difficulty the Department will have with it is the cost. There are positives regarding the proposal. Second, a body of work must be done to sell it to emigrants. As the...

Topical Issue Debate: School Completion Programme (30 Sep 2014)

Seán Crowe: We are talking about disadvantaged schools right across the country. It is not just a problem in urban areas but also in rural ones. I hoped that something positive would come out of the Minister's speech and he said there will be a review, which is grand. However, many boards of management involved in the school completion programme have told me that they cannot continue. No programme...

Topical Issue Debate: School Completion Programme (30 Sep 2014)

Seán Crowe: I welcome the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy James Reilly. It is a pity that the Minister for Education and Skills has left the Chamber as the issue I raise also relates to education. Children from certain household backgrounds are more likely to die young, experience poor health and have literacy problems, yet educational supports for such children have been targeted for...

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Sep 2014)

Seán Crowe: When a visitor to Russia asked Mikhail Gorbachev why he introduced perestroika he replied, “Look around you”. Perestroika was to involve the reconstruction of the Russian economy and society. We need to look around us, outside this Parliament building. If the Minister of State looks around he will see the problems. If we got an agreement that many of the Members who are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)

Seán Crowe: I welcome the delegation. Many of us will have no concept of the impact of the ebola outbreak on so many people. It seems to be that to combat the disease there is a need to go against the natural human instinct to comfort a person in distress. For example, if someone is crying, the instinct is to go to them and put one's arms around them. The carers are dying because they are close to...

Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)

Seán Crowe: Where is the queue to join Fine Gael in Government?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (17 Sep 2014)

Seán Crowe: 378. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the negotiations between Canada and the EU on a comprehensive economic and trade agreement are almost complete; his views on including investor-state dispute settlement, ISDS, provisions in the agreement and that the EU's sustainability impact assessment on CETA recommended against...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Exports Controls (17 Sep 2014)

Seán Crowe: 393. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of export licences of military goods for Israel that his Department approved; the type of military goods that have been exported; and if, in view of Israel's recent military attacks on Gaza which killed over 2,200 people, the vast majority civilians, and the accusations that it committed war crimes, his Department now...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)

Seán Crowe: I am using information from the Meir Amit Intelligence and-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)

Seán Crowe: According to the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center in Israel, Hamas did not fire any rockets out of Gaza from 21 November 2012 until 1 July 2014, yet according to B'Tselem, Israel killed 20 people inside Gaza during that period.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)

Seán Crowe: The ambassador can start with any question he likes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)

Seán Crowe: There were no rockets fired during that period.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)

Seán Crowe: I have read the ambassador's speech but I do not think either his speech or some of his answers today have actually helped Israel's cause. In fact, for many of those listening at home, his answers on the land question in particular will be infuriating. It reminds me of the cowboy films from years ago, with the Red Indian and the white man and the expression, "The white man speaks with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)

Seán Crowe: It is important that we express our sympathy and regret at all the lives lost in the recent conflict. Collectively, we regret and sympathise with all the families and those who have been injured during this conflict. I do not think anyone equivocates, regardless of whether they are Palestinian, Israeli or anything else. First of all, there is no agreement between the Palestinians and the...

Topical Issue Debate: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Crowe: In the past, we heard what could not be done and today we want to hear what can be done and what the Minister will do. There needs to be a strategy in respect of moving the British Government on this issue. People ask why they will not release these files. They say there is no silver bullet and no information. Why will they not release the files if that is the case? It is a rational and...

Topical Issue Debate: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Crowe: On 17 May 1974, 34 lives were lost in no-warning bombings in Dublin and Monaghan. There is compelling evidence that the bombing was carried out by British agents in loyalist paramilitary organisations assisted by members of the RUC and the UDR. Following the bombings, a cover up was put in place by the British military and political establishment. Investigations have been frustrated by...