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Written Answers — State Airports: State Airports (19 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 306: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expected use of Shannon Airport by the US military in 2012. [3104/12]

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 62: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his approach to the upcoming Rio+20 summit; his views on the implications of last December's Busan summit on aid effectiveness for the Irish Aid programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2350/12]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 177: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Donegal. [2157/12]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 178: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for refurbishment work within a school (details supplied) in County Donegal. [2158/12]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 179: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a new school building on the existing campus in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Donegal. [2159/12]

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 367: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria for An Garda Síochóna when filling out police certificates for Irish citizens applying for visas overseas; and if it includes minor driving and public order offences that have not resulted in a significant fine or imprisonment. [2153/12]

Hospital Services (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am shocked. Whoever wrote this reply needs to talk to the Letterkenny hospital nursing unions, local journalists and politicians rather than using some strange accounting mechanism to claim all is fine. For the life of me, I cannot understand from where the HSE is getting its figures and claiming everything is hunky dory. It must be a different hospital from the one from which I get...

Hospital Services (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the office of the Ceann Comhairle for accepting this issue, and the Minister of State for attending. As we speak, and in recent weeks, the accident and emergency ward in Letterkenny General Hospital has faced another crisis situation. Staff are working in impossible conditions under severe pressure. Many of them, speaking off the record to the local media, have spoken of being at...

Human Rights Issues (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Tánaiste for his forthright comments on Bahrain. Any time I have raised the issue, the Tánaiste has been strident in his condemnation of the human rights abuses that have taken place. It is worrying that despite the efforts of the Tánaiste and of the international community the authorities in Bahrain continue to crack down on legitimate peaceful human rights protests. It is of...

Human Rights Issues (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 38: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to support the Congolese community of Ireland, many of whom are Irish citizens, in their struggle to highlight the human and political situation in the Congo, which is currently on the brink of war; and his views that it is his duty to support the Irish Congolese community in their efforts to...

Human Rights Issues (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As with the Minister of State, I availed of the opportunity to meet representatives of the Congolese community late last year, listen to their concerns and learn of their expertise as Congolese citizens. The circumstances are deeply alarming. I welcome the tone of the Minister of State's comments. What is occurring is an appalling tragedy when one considers the vast natural resources of...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: After years of underinvestment.

Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is for the Taoiseach's colleagues.

International Agreements (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 30: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade with respect to the provision, contained in the draft intergovernmental treaty, to introduce the 0.5% deficit ceiling and a tougher debt reduction target for States with debt ratios above 60% into national binding provisions of a constitutional or equivalent level, his views that this will require a referendum; his...

International Agreements (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is widely agreed that the three crises we are facing across Europe relate to banking, sovereign debt and investment and what has been put before us by European leaders does not provide a solution to one of those crises. They have focused on, for bizarre reasons, the issue of permanent austerity to drive down wages and conditions and so on and to cut and privatise public services as a...

International Agreements (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will get to it quickly.

International Agreements (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The target now is 3% now but a 0.5% target is draconian. Seeking to reduce the debt to GDP ratio to 60%, bringing it down 5% per year, is also draconian and has dramatic implications for the Irish people. The Government has been asked in the first draft to enshrine it in the Constitution or equivalent legislation. What is the position of the Government on that? Is the Minister willing to...

International Agreements (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In the first published document, it was stated that the balanced budget rule - basically, Draconian austerity - had to be enshrined at constitutional or equivalent level. The latest draft, the third draft, states that the Government should enshrine this through binding and permanent provisions, preferably constitutional. Is our negotiating team trying to avoid a referendum? Is it trying to...

Foreign Conflicts (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 33: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in a public declaration by a number of leading international and national figures, including Bertie Ahern, Gerry Adams, Kofi Annan, Gro Harlem Bruntland, Pierre Joxe and Jonathan Powell at a public conference in San Sebastian on 17 October 2011, representatives...

Foreign Conflicts (17 Jan 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The intervention at the international conference in San Sebastian last October was a key one, particularly as it included figures from the Irish peace process, Kofi Annan and Jonathan Powell, the former chief of staff under Tony Blair. This was a key intervention to which there has been a positive response. As in the case of the Irish peace process, the next step is to definitively...