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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Ukraine: Russian Federation Ambassador (12 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: They do not have the authority.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Ukraine: Russian Federation Ambassador (12 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: It is interesting that Russia does.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Ukraine: Russian Federation Ambassador (12 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: Chairman-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Ukraine: Russian Federation Ambassador (12 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: I welcome the ambassador-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Ukraine: Russian Federation Ambassador (12 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: I was welcoming the ambassador. This is the first occasion on which we have been able to look him in the eye and have a chat. I had hoped to see him before now, when he sent us a very nasty letter, because we had the audacity to deal with William Browder's Medinsky case, threatening Ireland with-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Ukraine: Russian Federation Ambassador (12 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: I do not speak Russian. The legislation that was being prepared for the adoption of innocent Russian children was threatened.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Ukraine: Russian Federation Ambassador (12 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: We were threatened that children would not be allowed to be adopted-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Ukraine: Russian Federation Ambassador (12 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: No, Russian children.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Ukraine: Russian Federation Ambassador (12 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: Russian children.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Ukraine: Russian Federation Ambassador (12 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: We did not get the opportunity to debate that issue then, but now that the ambassador is here, maybe he can recall that incident. I am recalling for him the fact that it was the most insensitive correspondence this committee has ever received from an ambassador. I am not a diplomat; I am a street fighter and a politician. I do not want to be offensive, but I want to express anger in an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Introduction of euro to Lithuania: Lithuanian Ambassador (11 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: I welcome the ambassador and hope he will have a successful celebration of Lithuania's national day of liberation. I am keen to learn how the euro is being sold to the electorate? When we in Ireland take major decisions, we have a great deal of debate. If the Russians had not invaded Ukraine, which I am sure is a very sensitive issue in Lithuania, would the people have been equally...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: I thank Ms Nolan for her contribution. We are 40 years in the EU but the attitude of successive governments to the Irish diaspora has been disgraceful. I have recorded this view on many occasions. I base my view on my embarrassment on realising, as an OSCE election monitor, that a very diverse range of countries, including Ukraine, Romania and other former eastern European counties, had...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (11 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: 54. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the rapidly moving developments in the Ukraine and the commitment of the OSCE to engage in both an observatory capacity and an election monitoring capacity and in view of the fact that the Tánaiste as a former chairman-in-office of the OSCE, the reason his Department is sending one long-term observer to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Issues (11 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: 239. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the benefits and payments due to a community employment supervisor working for the past 20 consecutive years if he or she was to retire or be made redundant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11692/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Local and Community Development Programme Planning (11 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: 267. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the possibility of local development companies losing the contract to deliver the local community development programme and Leader and becoming unsustainable as result, what contingency plans, if any, have been put in place for the continued delivery of Department of Social Protection programmes currently delivered by LDCs, that is,...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Mountain Access Schemes (11 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: 287. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his attention has been drawn to the land erosion on traditional walking paths on the mountain ranges here; if he will confirm that it is his intention to establish proper developed pathways in order to prevent the erosion from the increased footfall in hill walkers but in particular the use of bikes, motorbikes and quads; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Mountain Access Schemes (11 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: 288. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in view of the increase in participation by walkers using for recreational purposes the magnificent mountain ranges of the Dublin-Wicklow mountains, if he is satisfied that he has sufficient funds to develop pathways to alleviate the erosion that is occurring on this mountain range; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (11 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: 360. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to persons living in Dublin who are on the local authority housing list and who cannot obtain private rented accommodation and if they have to move outside the city outside of their council area, they are obliged to have their name removed from the council list and reapply in the new...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (11 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: 361. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the situation whereby persons who have been assessed and gone through all processes, vetting and so on to get on a local authority housing list, who if they move to rental accommodation outside their local authority area must start this whole reassessment again thereby creating unnecessary duplication...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding (11 Mar 2014)

Eric Byrne: 376. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify the position regarding a local and community development project procurement (details supplied); and if those involved will make a statement on the request. [12003/14]