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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Equality Budgeting (15 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: To ask the Minister for Finance if he supports the concept of equality budgeting; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Scottish Government provides an equality budget statement alongside each annual budget; his plans to provide an accompanying equality statement along with Budget 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50247/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Promissory Notes (15 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the annual interest repayments owed for the next forty years if the maturity of all remaining promissory notes currently owed to the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation was extended out to 2052 and if annual interest on the notes was charged at 3%, 4% and 5%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50246/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Development Aid (14 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: The Minister's answer was very comprehensive. We discussed this matter earlier. I was interested in hearing about the connection we have with various countries on this matter. It appeared at the time in question Ireland was acting unilaterally. The Minister stated there was constant toing and froing by officials. They did seem to adopt a different approach. It has certainly worked in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Global Economic Forum (14 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: It is important to ensure the members of the Diaspora feel part of this development. Their views and ideas need to be taken on board. It is surprising that it is only a recent initiative because members of the Irish Diaspora always ask about home. They are willing to help out. The initiative has been slow in its initial phase but it has potential. However, this needs to be a long-term...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Middle East Peace Process (14 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: Does the Minister not accept there is no pressure on the Israeli Government? There certainly is none from the United States or the European Union, which has awarded Israel favourable trading status. As we sit in this Chamber, a massive military attack on the people of Gaza is taking place. In recent days an Israeli Minister is on record as having said that families in Gaza should have...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (14 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: In regard to the meeting with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, did the Tánaiste express the view that Bahrain had a sectarian society and that the society appeared to be propping up such a society? People are discriminated against and denied jobs on the basis of their religion, yet an Irish company is operating within such a society in Bahrain. What is happening is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (14 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the increased human rights abuses against the Kurdish minority in Turkey; and if the issue is being discussed at EU level. [50342/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (14 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: Discrimination against Turkey's Kurdish community has been well documented during the years. There are approximately 20 million Kurds in Turkey but they have never been granted the same rights as ethnic Turks and are not even recognised as Kurds and are called mountain Turks. The Tánaiste referred to the fact there is a hunger strike in the jails. There are some 700 prisoners on...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Development Aid (14 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the report from the Irish Aid delegation that visited Uganda to investigate the misappropriation of Irish Aid funds will be completed; and if he will make it public. [50341/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Development Aid (14 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: I share the Minister's concern on this issue. My question was submitted some time ago and I know the issue has been well ventilated in recent days at the meetings of the Oireachtas Committee Joint on Foreign Affairs on Trade and the Oireachtas Joint Committee on European Union Affairs and in statements made by the Minister. I share his concern about the misappropriation of €4 million...

Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: The Bill should be about the future as well as about regulation. I have asked why the Government is opposed to shared services and electronic accounts. Credit unions should be allowed to invest in socially responsible job creation schemes with State-backed guarantees. Is it necessary to provide for term limits for board members and prohibitions on service by family members? I see these...

Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: Ireland is currently facing one of the worst economic crises in living memory. That crisis was caused by unbridled capitalism, the gross mismanagement of the economy by successive governments and a complete lack of any serious regulation in the banking sector. It is completely understandable that Irish citizens are extremely angry that their taxes have been used to bail out gamblers,...

Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: When is the legislation due?

Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: Answer the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Forthcoming General Affairs Council: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: I wish the Tánaiste well in these negotiations. We would all agree with his statement that Ireland is in favour of a properly funded and properly functioning EU with the right mix of priorities, a fair allocation of resources and a focus on jobs and growth. As the Tánaiste said, the EU needs a budget that is fit for purpose. I agree that it is time to break the vicious circle...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Misappropriation of Irish Aid Funds in Uganda: Discussion with Irish Aid (13 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: The biggest negative would be if Irish people lost confidence in Irish Aid and the work it is doing. A positive outcome from today's meeting will be the message relating to the good that has been achieved in Uganda. In the 1990s, 18% of the population had HIV-Aids, but that this is now down to 6%. Some 8.3 million children are now in schools there and poverty has been halved. These are the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Homemakers Schemes (13 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to SIPTU's call for the home-makers scheme to be backdated from 1994 to 1964; if she will make arrangements to backdate it as suggested; the estimated cost of doing so; and the likely number of women who would benefit. [49848/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (13 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will arrange for a review of all agency arrangements for all persons in receipt of disability allowance living in residential care in view of concerns raised by Inclusion Ireland. [49849/12]

National Children's Hospital: Motion (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: I refer to the decision itself. Many hospitals applied to have their sites selected. People are concerned about how the decision was made and I have trawled the media and listened to the Minister in this regard. In the interest of transparency, how did we come to the decision? Many hospitals believed they fulfilled many of the criteria, including the one in my area. Deputy Maloney asked...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (8 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that cuts to funding for disability services are beginning to threaten the progressive policy of accommodating persons with disabilities in community settings rather than in institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48970/12]