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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (5 Feb 2019)

Simon Coveney: The Government is determined to ensure that the Good Friday Agreement in all its parts, and the gains and benefits of the Peace Process, are protected for people on the island of Ireland, North and South. The Government appreciates the solidarity and support which has been shown by all of our EU partners in respect of Ireland’s unique issues and concerns. The principle of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (5 Feb 2019)

Simon Coveney: The Common Travel Area (CTA) is a long-standing arrangement between Ireland and the UK which means Irish citizens can move freely to live, work, and study in the UK on the same basis as UK citizens, and vice versa. Both the Irish and British Governments have committed to the maintenance of the CTA and the associated rights and entitlements of Irish and British citizens under this...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (5 Feb 2019)

Simon Coveney: The on-going persecution of the Baha'i community in Yemen is extremely worrying. There are recent reports of detention and harassment of members of the Baha'i community, in particular by the Houthi de facto government, which controls the territory where the majority of the Yemeni population live. Ireland strongly condemns all forms of persecution on the basis of religion or belief,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (5 Feb 2019)

Simon Coveney: Extensive and detailed Brexit preparedness and contingency work continues to be taken forward, co-ordinated by officials in my Department, working closely with the Department of the Taoiseach, across all Government Departments, Agencies and sectors, including the agrifood sector. The agrifood sector is of critical importance to the Irish economy, and its regional spread means it underpins...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (5 Feb 2019)

Simon Coveney: In accordance with Article 50, paragraph 3 of the Treaty on European Union, the EU Treaties shall cease to apply to the United Kingdom from the date of entry into force of the Withdrawal Agreement or, failing that, two years after its notification of its intention to withdraw, unless the European Council, in agreement with the United Kingdom, unanimously decides to extend this period. In the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Preparations (5 Feb 2019)

Simon Coveney: The Government remains firmly of the view that the best and only way to ensure an orderly withdrawal and protect the Good Friday Agreement is to ratify the Withdrawal Agreement, agreed between the EU and the British Government. The EU has consistently made clear that it stands by the Withdrawal Agreement. It is not for renegotiation and there can be no Withdrawal Agreement without the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2019)

Simon Coveney: I suggest that the Deputy table a question to the line Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2019)

Simon Coveney: My understanding is that work is still under way on that Bill but as soon as we have a timeline for it we can advise the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2019)

Simon Coveney: I can understand the need for answers to those questions. The Minister will be in the House next week making statements and answering questions on this issue.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2019)

Simon Coveney: I want to clarify for the House that the rainy day fund is not for capital investment in health infrastructure. There is a significant increase in capital investment in health infrastructure but I will ask the Minister to come back in regard to Sligo University Hospital.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2019)

Simon Coveney: All I can say is that if ever there was proof that the kind of ideology that the Deputy talks about delivering for working people does not work, it is in Venezuela. People are starving and selling their hair to try to feed their families-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2019)

Simon Coveney: -----because of the policies of the person who the Deputy seems to be standing up for today. I am afraid that what we would like to see in Venezuela are free, fair and democratic elections that are monitored by the international community to ensure that the results are free and fair so that the people themselves can decide the kind of future that they want.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2019)

Simon Coveney: It sounds like the Deputy does not want Ministers to visit his constituency which is bizarre to put it mildly.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2019)

Simon Coveney: The capital plan is being reviewed and finalised by the HSE, which was mentioned earlier in this House. As soon as that has been completed, it will be published and there will be clarity but the intention of the Government is that any project that has a financial commitment will be delivered but it is about the scheduling of that delivery.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2019)

Simon Coveney: I have been a Minister in that Department and the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Doyle, who is here has been in that Department for quite some time also. This is something that the Government looked at before in terms of how Ministries are linked to make sure that briefs complement each other and so on. The food industry in Ireland is a very...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

Simon Coveney: I will tell the Deputy what it is not. Our alternative is not what she is proposing, which is to pay everybody what they ask for-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

Simon Coveney: ----and to bankrupt the country. That is what her kind of politics delivers-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

Simon Coveney: It is give everybody what they want every week and borrow money to do it, which then results in the kind of dramatic-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

Simon Coveney: -----and damaging decision-making that is forced on a government that happened to us a decade ago.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

Simon Coveney: We are not going there again. Instead, we are guaranteeing public sector workers that their pay will continue to increase every year, that we will be able to afford to do it, and that we will work with them on pay, allowances, conditions and so on through the public sector pay agreement, which they signed up to, to provide that kind of certainty and ensure we get incremental improvements...