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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...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Finance Foundation (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 208. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans regarding the proposals around a micro-lending scheme announced recently; the number of pilots schemes that are intended; and if they will be linked to an existing Money Advice and Budgeting Service and to the Credit Union Network. [28644/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 209. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, given the Lough payments that have been discontinued due to the passage of the replacement scheme that has been put in place, there has been any study completed of the effects of same. [28645/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 549. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a knee replacement operation for a person (details supplied) at Tallaght Hospital in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28465/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Visa Applications (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 710. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 has not been granted access to the Irish embassy in Egypt to receive their visa to return to Ireland; and the steps if he will take to assist the person in doing so. [28799/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 724. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will be present for any part of the financing for development summit in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia; and his Department's key proposals. [28361/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Organisations (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 929. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that, as funder of the Irish Sports Council, and therefore of its sub-organisations, including the Athletics Association of Ireland, that the Athletic Association of Ireland has adopted and implemented the code of ethics and good practice for children in athletics; when it was adopted; and if it is binding on clubs...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Organisations (14 Jul 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 930. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of developments, or lack thereof, regarding the complaints on matters including child abuse and the complaints procedures within one of the clubs grant-aided by the State and under the remit of the Athletics Association of Ireland, between one family of runners (details supplied) and the club management, which has...