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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (25 Jan 2018)

Ciarán Cannon: 2017 saw a year of unprecedented humanitarian crises, including the reoccurrence of the threat of famine to the Horn of Africa, including South Sudan and Somalia. Ireland, in particular through EU and UN structures, continues to support efforts to address issues of famine, violence and human rights issues around the globe, including in the Horn of Africa. The scale of the humanitarian...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Multilateral Development Banks (25 Jan 2018)

Ciarán Cannon: The Government is strongly committed to delivering Ireland’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) programme in the most effective way, providing humanitarian assistance and contributing to the fight against global poverty and hunger, including through working with multilateral partners. Funding for multilateral organisations is kept under regular review by my Department, to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (25 Jan 2018)

Ciarán Cannon: The Government is strongly committed to Ireland’s overseas aid programme and to its place at the heart of our foreign policy. Detailed planning leading to a results-based approach characterizes Ireland’s bilateral aid programmes. This enables the quality, effectiveness and efficiency to be kept under regular review by the Department. The Embassy network, especially in...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Provision (25 Jan 2018)

Ciarán Cannon: The Government is strongly committed to Ireland’s overseas aid programme, and to its place at the heart of our foreign policy.Our priorities are clearly laid out in the Government’s development policy, ‘One World One Future’. In line with our commitment to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, our aid programme is sharply focused on delivering our...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Common Security and Defence Policy (25 Jan 2018)

Ciarán Cannon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 64 and 65 together. I remain deeply concerned by the peace and security threat posed by Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram, and by the consequent humanitarian crises across East and West Africa. In Somalia, the security situation remains extremely fragile. Al-Shabaab continue to launch attacks on government facilities and civilians. They remain a core threat to...

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Passport Services (23 Jan 2018)

Ciarán Cannon: The year 2017 was a record breaking one for the passport service, with approximately 780,000 passports issued. This was an increase of over 6% compared to 2016 and an increase of over 15% since 2015. That strong demand for Irish passports includes an increased demand from Irish citizens in Northern Ireland and Great Britain - overall, almost 20% of the total number of applications received...

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Passport Services (23 Jan 2018)

Ciarán Cannon: Could I respond to that?

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Passport Services (23 Jan 2018)

Ciarán Cannon: It is critical to point out that the rights of our citizens on the entire island of Ireland to apply for and to retain an Irish passport is at the very core of the work that we do. I fully agree that significant challenges will arise in terms of what Brexit will bring but the service is available through the network of 70 post offices and increasingly online. Last year if one were to avail...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Data (17 Jan 2018)

Ciarán Cannon: The Government is strongly committed to Ireland’s overseas aid programme, and to its place at the heart of our foreign policy. Our priorities are clearly laid out in the Government’s development policy, ‘One World One Future’. In line with our commitment to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, our aid programme is sharply focused on delivering...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Climate Change Policy (16 Jan 2018)

Ciarán Cannon: Established in 2010, the Green Climate Fund supports the efforts of developing countries to respond to the challenge of climate change. Irish Government contributions to the Green Climate Fund falls under the remit of the Department for Communications, Climate Action and the Environment. In addition to Irish Government funding to the Green Climate Fund, Irish Aid, through the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Data (16 Jan 2018)

Ciarán Cannon: The Government is strongly committed to Ireland’s overseas development cooperation programme and to its place at the heart of our foreign policy.For 2018, the Government has allocated just over €707 million for ODA, the third consecutive year ODA has increased. Based on current estimates, it is anticipated this level of allocation will see ODA amount to approximately 0.3% of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Expenditure (16 Jan 2018)

Ciarán Cannon: The European Union Emergency Trust Fund for stability and addressing root causes of irregular migration and displaced persons in Africais an element of a comprehensive package of EU initiatives to support stability across the North, East (Horn of Africa) and West (Sahel / Lake Chad) African Regions, contributing to the tackling the root causes of instability, forced displacement and irregular...

Topical Issue Debate: Redundancy Payments (14 Dec 2017)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Deputy for raising the matter, which I am taking on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Humphreys, who cannot attend the House this evening. The Labour Court is an independent adjudicative body under the remit of the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation and has discharged its statutory function in the matter. The...

Topical Issue Debate: Redundancy Payments (14 Dec 2017)

Ciarán Cannon: All Members acknowledge that a redundancy situation in any workplace is difficult for workers and their families. However, we are fortunate to have an industrial relations system whereby the fundamental approach of successive Governments has been one of voluntarism. In general, our laws do not try to impose a solution on parties to a trade dispute but, rather, are designed to help support...

Topical Issue Debate: DEIS Administration (14 Dec 2017)

Ciarán Cannon: On Deputy Doherty's contribution, it is perfectly understandable why there may be primary schools in an area which have DEIS status and post-primary schools which do not have the same status. The Deputy referred to the levels of deprivation within the rural area as a whole. Part of the assessment process consists of an in-school assessment in respect of the levels of educational attainment...

Topical Issue Debate: DEIS Administration (14 Dec 2017)

Ciarán Cannon: That is not the case at all. It is here. That is the first point I want to make.

Topical Issue Debate: DEIS Administration (14 Dec 2017)

Ciarán Cannon: The whole point of the DEIS programme is to support schools that are less than successful and to ensure that all of our schools nationally reach a certain level of attainment. That is quite a logical approach to take when using scarce resources.

Topical Issue Debate: DEIS Administration (14 Dec 2017)

Ciarán Cannon: I have not. The final point I would make is that the Department of Education and Skills has, for the first time, introduced an objective statistics-based model for deciding which schools merit inclusion in the DEIS programme in order that all stakeholders can have confidence that we are targeting extra resources at the schools that need them and have the highest concentrated levels of...

Topical Issue Debate: DEIS Administration (14 Dec 2017)

Ciarán Cannon: I am taking this debate on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Bruton. If he could be here, he would be. As the Deputies are aware, delivering equality of opportunity in schools, DEIS, is the main policy initiative of the Department of Education and Skills to address educational disadvantage at school level. No new schools had been admitted to DEIS since...

Topical Issue Debate (14 Dec 2017)

Ciarán Cannon: I am not taking that matter.