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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Issues (25 Jun 2013)

Seán Crowe: 158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide the figures for Irish Aid’s 2012 spending on programmes focused on agriculture, nutrition, school feeding, food assistance, emergency food distribution, social protection, health care, health education and water/sanitation, individually and in euro terms, and expressed as percentage of total...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jun 2013)

Seán Crowe: We will do our best.

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jun 2013)

Seán Crowe: I will play it by ear. I listened to some of the debate in my office. Many people share my belief that this State has a democratic and governance deficit. That is a view shared across all parties and none. We know from opinion polls that people hold politicians and political institutions in low esteem and low voter turnout across the State is another manifestation of this standing. If we...

Hundredth Anniversary of 1913 Lock-out: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Jun 2013)

Seán Crowe: The 1913 Dublin strike and Lock-out is one of the most important and inspirational events in Irish history. Dublin in 1913 was a city of dire poverty. The rate of infant mortality was as high as Calcutta and almost a quarter of the inhabitants lived in city centre tenements and slums - 80% of families lived in just one room. Work, for those that could find it, was mostly casual, dangerous...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (19 Jun 2013)

Seán Crowe: 198. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the national review of the school completion programme; the reason this has been delayed for two years; if she will clarify the focus and approach the review will take; and if she will outline the timeline for the review to commence and be completed. [29595/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (19 Jun 2013)

Seán Crowe: 199. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the school completion programme review report will be made public; the processes that will be established in order to drive the recommendations; and the way progress will be monitored. [29596/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services Provision (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Crowe: In the case we are discussing the child received an extra year and it was known this would happen a year ago. I understand a care plan was being worked out at Christmas. The difficulty with this is the cost involved. Many children with extreme autism or extreme needs are in a residential setting. In some cases four nurses and four carers may be involved. The family believes it is blessed...

Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services Provision (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Crowe: I wish to draw the attention of the Minister of State to a very severe, extreme and unusual case of a family in crisis. The case centres on a young man with severe autism. His mother has cancer and two of his siblings have special needs. The difficulty is that there is a mandatory court order relating to this case which expires on 28 June. This is an emergency situation. The family is...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Crowe: 21. To ask the Minister for Defence if a decision has been made regarding the request from the UN to deploy observers to the UN Truce Supervision Organisation in the Middle East to the Headquarters of the UNDOF in Syria. [29109/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Crowe: 30. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to cease the prescribing of Lariam to Irish troops deployed in malarial zones. [29110/13]

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Seán Crowe: Many people, not just Sinn Féin Deputies or supporters, believe this tax is regressive, unfair and wrong and that it will create genuine hardship among people in the community. We know this crippling tax was the brainchild of the Fianna Fáil-Green Administration which crashed our economy, but this Government has passionately advocated in favour of this new tax and determinedly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Development Priorities for the Post-2015 Development Framework: Discussion with Dóchas (12 Jun 2013)

Seán Crowe: I welcome the delegates and take the opportunity to thank them and the many members of their organisations for the work they do around the world. I do not think we do this often enough. Officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade appeared before the committee to talk about its ambassadors, but the goodwill ambassadors for Ireland are clearly the members of these organisations....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Scrutiny Reports 2012: Discussion with Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (12 Jun 2013)

Seán Crowe: The key is meaningful dialogue rather than the optics of dialogue. If meaningful dialogue is engaged in, the situation in that country could be transformed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Scrutiny Reports 2012: Discussion with Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (12 Jun 2013)

Seán Crowe: I again welcome the witnesses. I will begin with an issue that was not really addressed in the statement provided, that is, the situation in Turkey, which is on members' minds after watching on television the scenes that unfolded last night. Amnesty International held a protest outside the Turkish Embassy today in respect of the attacks on peaceful protesters in which one can see the gas...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Numbers (12 Jun 2013)

Seán Crowe: 11. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that the local authorities have reduced their staff from 37,243 in 2008 to 28,268, if he will outline in tabular the local authorities from which these reductions took place; and the grade of employment of these staff and the salary scale of these staff. [28065/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (12 Jun 2013)

Seán Crowe: 19. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the progress made in introducing legislation to put in place a funding mechanism for the repairs needed to pyrite affected housing here. [27064/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Issues (12 Jun 2013)

Seán Crowe: 72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 28 May 2013, in which he stated that 20% of Irish Aid’s expenditure is on hunger reduction, if he will specifically detail the way this is measured and the type of expenditure that falls under Irish Aid’s definition of hunger reduction spending. [28210/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Issues (12 Jun 2013)

Seán Crowe: 73. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Irish Aid reviewed Dóchas recently published Models of Agricultural Investment research paper; and if Irish Aid plan to implement any of the recommendations contained in this paper. [28211/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff Training (30 May 2013)

Seán Crowe: 19. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will give a detailed account of the amount of money spent by his Department in 2012 and in the year to date in 2013 on training and development in arts and heritage; if he will provide specific details of the way the money was spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26096/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Gender Recognition Issues (29 May 2013)

Seán Crowe: 31. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to introduce gender recognition legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25720/13]