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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 1613. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason platform 10 in Heuston Station, Dublin 8 has been left out of proposals to open the Phoenix Park tunnel to commuter trains despite the long-standing policy to create modes of different public transport systems, and that the variety of services available at Heuston Station, Luas, Bus Átha Cliath, Bus Éireann and...

Social Services and Support: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Go back to sleep.

Social Services and Support: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is right-wing government. People know what happened.

Social Services and Support: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is important we take this opportunity to speak on this very important matter. The Government has stated from its initiation and reiterated in the National Positive Ageing Strategy in 2013 that its policy was to enable people to age with confidence, security and dignity in their home and communities as long as possible. I do not believe anybody in this Chamber or elsewhere would speak...

Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Deputy Martin is living it.

Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Fianna Fáil programme was fiction as well.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Redeployment (15 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if the employment of temporary clerical officers, TCOs, in her Department and, in particular, the awarding of long-term contracts to TCOs affect the chances of an established clerical officer, CO, transferring to another office in the same Department; if the awarding of long-term contracts to TCOs is what this role was intended...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister for his answer. As he said, in September there will be an opportunity for Ireland and others on the Human Rights Council to examine a report on the investigation into the last years of the conflict, not what has happened since then. I hope he and the UN will be able to persuade the Sri Lankan Government to co-operate fully. The new government has to date not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that the Sri Lankan Government continues to refuse co-operation with international investigations into alleged war crimes committed by their military, that there is ongoing persecution of the Tamil persons in Sri Lanka and that a significant military presence remains in the northern and eastern provinces of the state; and if...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I tabled this question as I firmly believe that the international community is ignoring the plight of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka. Is the Minister aware of their plight? Is he aware that the Sri Lankan Government continues to refuse to co-operate with international investigations into alleged war crimes committed by its military during the war which ended in 2009? Is he aware of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome members of the Irish Forum for Peace in Sri Lanka, who are present in the Visitors Gallery today. I thank them for their vital work in continuing to keep us abreast of the horrific conditions in Sri Lanka and international developments. In 2009 the Sri Lankan Government defeated the Tamils with much brutality. That brutality has continued since then through the occupation by...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister mentioned sustainable finance again. Has he asked his counterparts not to cut further the Northern Ireland Stormont Assembly block grant? If that is to continue, all the agreements will be undermined, because the funding is not available to go ahead with the changes required. It is a post-conflict situation. There is, as the Minister mentioned, a different society in the Six...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to ensure outstanding issues in relation to the Stormont House Agreement and previous multi-party agreements are implemented; and the measures his Department is taking to ensure the devolution of fiscal powers to Stormont to ensure sustainable and workable budgets may be agreed. [28659/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In my question I ask the Government about its plans to deal with the outstanding issues arising from the Stormont House Agreement and previous agreements and call on it to ensure fiscal powers are transferred in order that there can be a sustainable and workable budget in the North in the future. In the most recent budget we saw the scale of the cuts imposed by the Tory Government which did...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Mention was made of the new mechanisms for dealing with the legacy of the past and it is to be welcomed that there is progress on that issue. I do not know whether the Minister has had any contact with his counterparts since the Tories announced their budget, in which they cut the block grant to the Assembly by €1.5 billion. Based on the trajectory from the budget, there will be...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that new data from Medical Aid for Palestinians show that 17 hospitals, 56 primary health care facilities and 45 ambulances were damaged or destroyed during Israel's attack on Gaza in July 2014, that the total cost of the conflict to Gaza's health care system is estimated at $50 million, and that 511 Palestinians died after...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Provision (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department is still assisting the families and victims of those affected by the balcony tragedy in Berkeley in the United States of America and the attack on tourists in Sousse in Tunisia. [28356/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Criminal Court (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 103. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that the Sudanese President, Mr. Omar Al-Bashir, who has an International Criminal Court warrant for his arrest over alleged war crimes, travelled to and from an African Union summit in South Africa unimpeded; his views on whether the International Criminal Court's legitimacy is in crisis after this event; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 119. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied), an imprisoned Saudi Arabian blogger and activist, who has been handed a sentence of 1,000 lashes and ten years in prison for insulting Islam; if he agrees this is an extremely cruel, inhuman and unjust sentence for starting an Internet discussion group and that the right to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Israeli Settlements (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that at the beginning of May 2015, the Israeli High Court ruled that officials could carry out demolition orders on the entire village of Susiya in the southern West Bank; that, if these demolitions go ahead, over 250 persons will be evicted from the place in which they have lived since before the occupation of the West...