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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (10 Jun 2014)

Eric Byrne: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify a situation regarding the teaching of a course (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24162/14]

Cemetery Management Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jun 2014)

Eric Byrne: Can the Leas-Cheann Comhairle confirm that I would have been next on the list with ten minutes in any event? I ask in order that I can share.

Cemetery Management Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jun 2014)

Eric Byrne: So will I have the five minutes from my colleague and then ten minutes to share among my dear friends?

Cemetery Management Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jun 2014)

Eric Byrne: I will get on with my five minutes and see what is left. I congratulate my colleague on going to the trouble of putting this Bill before the House. I have been a long time in politics and while I appreciate the Minister is not opposing the Bill, I imagine I might be well and truly cremated up in Mount Jerome cemetery before anything happens.

Cemetery Management Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jun 2014)

Eric Byrne: It is a very popular method of burial in Mount Jerome, where there are two crematoria. However, to cut a long story short, I was also spoken to by some craftsmen who traditionally designed, carved and erected the headstones for deceased people. A lovely memorial stands at the northern corner of Harold's Cross Park to commemorate the members of the fourth battalion of the Old IRA. My...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Eric Byrne: How does one create a standard that applies across markets?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Eric Byrne: I thank the witnesses for coming, especially for travelling from Austria. I wanted to restate some of the comments I made here last month before the Minister that Mr. McKeever and Mr. Ivory may not have heard. As a nation and as business interests we sing from the same hymn sheet. If we denied the benefits and huge savings that these reports indicate, we would be deemed lunatics. Having...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Exchange of Views: Mozambique Ministerial Delegation (4 Jun 2014)

Eric Byrne: Subsidiarity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Exchange of Views: Mozambique Ministerial Delegation (4 Jun 2014)

Eric Byrne: The delegation is most welcome. I will kick-start my contribution by noting that when we review the figures for Mozambique, the amount it receives in aid is phenomenal. It is also phenomenal that our little island of 4 million people will this year alone provide €36 million. We do not want to shout about this too loudly because we are supposed to be in the depths of recession, the...

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2014)

Eric Byrne: The local property tax is coming in for them. What way does the Deputy want it?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Development Fund: Motion (29 May 2014)

Eric Byrne: Botswana is a stable, democratic and wonderful country. ESB International is a credit to Ireland.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Development Fund: Motion (29 May 2014)

Eric Byrne: I welcome the Minister of State and his team. This is a fantastic example of what countries coming together, working in a cohesive and organised fashion can deliver in effective development aid to these countries. I am delighted the European Union is generous enough to contribute €30.5 billion in development aid, predominantly to Africa. It is interesting that it is co-terminous...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Nigeria: Ambassador of Nigeria (28 May 2014)

Eric Byrne: I welcome the ambassador and extend my personal good wishes to his country in solving the problem of Boko Haram and, more particularly, securing the safe return to their mothers and families of the 200 children who were kidnapped. I understand 100 or more are still in captivity. I do not want to fight with the ambassador, but I fundamentally disagree with his statement that the insurgency...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (27 May 2014)

Eric Byrne: May I ask a brief question in this regard? I cited the Irish Medicines Board but what is the point of having an Irish Medicines Board, for example, if the European Union norm of standards is the established norm?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (27 May 2014)

Eric Byrne: I thank the Minister for his attendance and I thank the Chairman for starting the debate. We have heard something about the TTIP, transatlantic trade and investment partnership and it helps to study the briefing documentation. I have done my best to analyse it. If I was naive I would wonder why this project is not being fast-tracked because I am reading that it will be of great benefit to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Issues (27 May 2014)

Eric Byrne: 399. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will arrange to have the issue of a community employment supervisor being recruited by an organisation (details supplied) resolved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22512/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Work in North Africa and Middle East: Amnesty International Ireland (14 May 2014)

Eric Byrne: I am sorry, the relevant countries have been mentioned. I saw a list that included nearly all of the countries in north Africa.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Work in North Africa and Middle East: Amnesty International Ireland (14 May 2014)

Eric Byrne: I presume the reference to August 2014 is a typographical error and that August 2013 is the intended reference.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Work in North Africa and Middle East: Amnesty International Ireland (14 May 2014)

Eric Byrne: We identify the horrors we have been reading about in many Arab countries, north African countries and sub-Saharan African countries with extreme terrorism and religious intolerance by Christians against Muslims and Muslims against Christians. We are speaking from the point of view of the West, including Ireland and our greatest neighbour in Europe and closest trading ally, Britain, as well...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Work in North Africa and Middle East: Amnesty International Ireland (14 May 2014)

Eric Byrne: I thank Amnesty International for the presentation. I read the report, Torture in 2014: 30 years of Broken Promises. It makes sickening reading. I am always cautious of the focus of attention on individual named victims. As one goes through this document one may read of a peasant in Sudan who has had a hand amputated or look at the regional snapshots. Where does one start? There is...