Results 841-860 of 1,687 for speaker:Eric Byrne

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: I asked about the Limerick office, or is it too sensitive an issue?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: I am never happy.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: It is incumbent on me to add to the praise of the three ladies based in Sierra Leone. Members of the diplomatic corps love to get placements in New York, London or Brussels. Those women worked in the most incredible conditions. It was impressive to see them interacting effectively with Ministers. One of them went jogging with the Minister for Education-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: With all the new promotions-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: Could the Minister elaborate on the relationship between his Department and the €1.7 million to third-level institutions, universities and co-operative programmes? Does the Minister not think it is time, given the shortage of funding, that the office that was stupidly transferred to Limerick be transferred back to Dublin? That must save money. It is disturbing that with the...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: No comment.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: It is hard to imagine in this modern age that people would be still fighting over emblems and flags, but that is Northern Ireland. Is the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade confident that the moneys he is putting in to create reconciliation and break down sectarianism, moneys divided between the loyalist and republican-Nationalist communities, are not actually...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: The emigrant support programme is particularly welcomed by organisations in America that are doing excellent work. In addition to providing a welfare element, has the Department considered the ability to engage with the diaspora in a more constructive way in so far as emigrants might be able to vote in elections such as presidential elections? It is very common in other countries, including...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: Will the Chairman allow brief supplementary questions? I only have one.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: May I ask one supplementary question?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: Of course, we welcome the opening of the embassies and consulates general. If it is all to happen this year, presumably, the Department must start to recruit senior men and women for these posts.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: Given the staffing numbers in the Department and the relevant qualifications and experience required, can it all be done within the year?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: A country edition.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: I will begin by asking the Tánaiste why we heard of this announcement yesterday morning? He will be conscious that the members of this committee are dealing in depth with the suggestion that we review the foreign policy and external relations of the Department. I put that on the agenda but I woke up one morning only to read in The Irish Times, which is delivered to my home, that this...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (21 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: 692. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a nitelink and air coach service in respect of an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2800/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: Given that we both read it in The Irish Times, is this the first step toward the publication of a White Paper? Is it envisaged that a White Paper will result from this debate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: I believe we heard that point made by a delegation from Sweden or Denmark. That is a very interesting concept. I congratulate Mr. Butler on being so quick off the mark. I was shocked to learn from a press statement covered in The Irish Times that the Government planned a review. This returns me to Mr. Butler's point about the Minister being able to determine policy alone. For example, he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: How many clinics does the Senator run?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: How many funerals did he attend last year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jan 2014)

Eric Byrne: Mr. Butler might be interested to hear that I read seven eighths of the document, which I found fascinating. It is different to submissions we have received from others to date in so far as he appears to have researched ways and means of this committee being better empowered in terms of holding the Parliament and the Executive to account, which is very refreshing. Mr. Butler has touched on...