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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Expenditure (15 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 664. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding allocated by his Department to overseas development aid as a percentage of gross national income from 1997 to 2014, inclusive; the total funding allocated in each of those years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14948/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Expenditure (15 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 665. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it is still Government policy to allocate 0.7% of gross national income to overseas development aid; the timeframe he as set in the context of achieving this target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14949/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (15 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 666. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contact he has had with his European Union and United Nations counterparts regarding the increasingly desperate humanitarian crisis at the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria; the actions that have arisen out of these discussions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14950/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diaspora Policy (15 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 667. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has held discussions with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport following his decision to cancel the proposed plan to create a national diaspora centre here; the way this decision will affect the diaspora policy, as outlined in the Global Irish document; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14951/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Properties (15 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 896. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will provide urgent consideration to the purchase of a property (details supplied) in County Cavan, in view of its potential for development as a tourism and heritage project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14814/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Properties (15 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 921. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if consideration will be given to the purchase of a property (details supplied) in County Cavan by her Department or agencies under the remit of her Department, in view of its potential for development as a tourism and heritage project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14941/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Stormont House Agreement: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (2 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister for the detailed report. On 20 January, I had the opportunity, along with other members of Fianna Fáil Party, to welcome in the Dáil debate the Stormont House Agreement and to compliment the Minister on his hands-on approach to this issue. As a party, we have been critical and have highlighted the need for both Governments to take a more hands-on approach...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Superlevy Fine (2 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 108. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to assist farmers who face substantial financial fines due to super levy penalties; if assistance is available, when same will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13820/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 198. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive proposes to provide permanent status for employees on short term contracts, such as multi-task attendants and health care attendants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13849/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukrainian Conflict (2 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 202. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he proposes to raise the ongoing crisis in the Ukraine at the next European Union Foreign Affairs Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13743/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (2 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 203. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he proposes to raise the ongoing crisis in Libya at the next European Union Foreign Affairs Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13744/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (2 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 204. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he proposes to raise the ongoing crisis in Yemen at the next European Union Foreign Affairs Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13745/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Terrorism (2 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 205. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the proposals he proposes to put forward at the next European Union Foreign Affairs Council meeting on the need for the European Union to strengthen all necessary measures to deal more effectively with international terrorism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13746/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (2 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 206. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the recent peer review by the OECD Development Assistance Committee, which included a recommendation to strengthen mechanisms to identify potential policy conflicts, if the focus areas for the first biennial report on Ireland's progress and policy coherence for development has been agreed; if so, if he will provide the areas...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (2 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 207. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised at the United Nations and the European Union the ongoing humanitarian crisis affecting Syrian civilians; if he has raised the desperate hardship and suffering imposed through starvation until submission sieges; if he is aware that it is generally accepted that humanitarian aid is still not reaching the most needy and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (2 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 208. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the proposals to be put forward at the forthcoming Kuwait humanitarian conference on Syria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13749/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (2 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 209. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised at the United Nations or at the European Union Foreign Affairs Council the ongoing appalling slaughter of civilians in opposition-controlled areas in Syria, as a result of the ongoing aerial bombardment of the Assad regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13750/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Expenditure (2 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 210. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the annual expenditure incurred in providing a consulate in Cardiff in Wales and in Tehran in Iran, when they were operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13751/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (2 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 211. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised with the Egyptian authorities the very serious concerns of a family (details supplied) over the ongoing detention of a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13752/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (2 Apr 2015)

Brendan Smith: 212. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the progress to date on the establishment of a compact civic advisory panel, as outlined in the Stormont House Agreement; the role of this panel when established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13789/15]