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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Development Aid (14 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: I welcome the Tánaiste's final comments in regard to that appointment and consider it a worthwhile development. One other suggestion I made to his officials yesterday was that we need the utmost co-operation with the other donor countries working in those partnership countries, by and large, other EU member states. This is to give out a message that misappropriation of even 1 cent will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Development Aid (14 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress that has been made to date on reviewing the auditing system in his Department in view of misappropriation of overseas development aid funds by Ugandan officials; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50249/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Development Aid (14 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: As previous speakers said, we had a good meeting yesterday with the Tánaiste's officials, who went through this matter in great detail. Everyone agreed that the systems need to be robust and rigorous. Mr. Rogers made the important point that this negative publicity is particularly "dispiriting" given that so much progress has been made in Uganda through the Irish Aid programme. There...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (14 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: It was pathetic to hear the group responsible use the excuse of tensions in the jail as being the cause of this murder. Tensions in the jail are not an excuse for violence, never mind the wilful taking of a life. Groups commonly referred to as dissident groups can be the incubators of violent extremism. Therefore, the activities of these and other vigilante groups must be dealt with. Such...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (14 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has had with the Northern Executive and with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland following the recent murder of a prison officer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50248/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland Issues (14 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply and agree with every word he uttered regarding this brutal murder. I condemn in the strongest terms the brutal murder of David Black, who was shot several times. By all accounts he was an exemplary officer and it appears from newspaper reports that a new paramilitary grouping has claimed responsibility following the merger of other groups. Such...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Recruitment (14 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress made to date in relation to the appointment of a Chief Risks Officer and a professionally qualified head of finance in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50250/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (14 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the decision to cease funding for a project (details supplied); if he will ensure that urgent consideration will be given to the provision of the necessary funding to enable this project continue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50530/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Misappropriation of Irish Aid Funds in Uganda: Discussion with Irish Aid (13 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: We are discussing Uganda today and I hope that we will not be back here another day discussing a similar incident in some other programme country. In that context, there would be some merit in working with other donor countries, many of whom are EU members, to send out a message that there are rigorous and robust systems in place to ensure the effectiveness of the substantial aid programme....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Misappropriation of Irish Aid Funds in Uganda: Discussion with Irish Aid (13 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: I welcome Mr. Rogers and his colleagues. It is welcome that we are getting an early report on what is intolerable behaviour at official level in Uganda. Every Minister reports the expenditure profile of his or her Department to Government on a monthly or bimonthly basis. Why did the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade not have an ongoing expenditure profile system in place when it has...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: North-South Implementation Bodies (13 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if analysis of the Peace Programme have been carried out; if such analysis will inform the introduction of the successor programme to the Peace III Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49411/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport (13 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a patrol car will be allocated to a Garda station (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49589/12]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Reserve (13 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will confirm that the training centre for the Reserve Defence Forces will remain in Cavan town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49590/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (8 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take on foot of the recent NESC report Quality and Standards in Human Services in Ireland: Home Care for Older People; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48935/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (8 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of discretionary medical cards that have been withdrawn to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48950/12]

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (7 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will give an undertaking to maintain the border allowance for those Defence Forces personnel currently in receipt of it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48501/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (6 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his policy in relation to the less severely handicapped areas under the proposed new common agricultural policy; if he will confirm that if these areas were to be reduced it would mean a loss of finance to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48248/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (6 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when REP scheme 4 payments and agri environment option scheme 1 and 2 payments will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48249/12]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (6 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to respond to the revelation about the misappropriation of Irish ODA to Uganda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48398/12]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (6 Nov 2012)

Brendan Smith: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total amount of Irish aid given to Uganda in 2009,2010,2011 to date in 2012; the number of staff involved, the primary goals of our engagement with the region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48399/12]