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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (22 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: 109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of the backlog of cases at the social welfare appeals office where appellants are being told that this office is currently working through submissions received from mid-February 2024; if she will take appropriate measures including staff changes to alleviate this backlog; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (21 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for a substantial income tax package in budget 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22682/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Reports (21 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the stability programme update 2024 he published in April; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22681/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: 384. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the payments made to an applicant seeking international protection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22512/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (16 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: 14. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the action he is taking to enhance the Naval Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22037/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Strategies (16 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: 36. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the Be Summer-Ready 2024 public safety information campaign he recently launched; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22036/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: I thank the witnesses for their presentations, sobering as they are. Certainly, security and defence issues are rising to the top of the EU agenda. We have found that as a committee in our visits to Brussels and also at the Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs of Parliaments of the European Union, COSAC, meetings. There has been a very definite shift in emphasis towards...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: The broader question is EU-UK co-operation. On the question of developing the European defence industrial base, this has come as a bit of a surprise to me. I do think we are moving in that direction but it seems to be quite advanced. What role will Ireland play in that regard, if any? Are there companies lining up in this State to actively get involved? The term "dual use" was used. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: Is that the RAF thing?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: In his discussions with President Ursula von der Leyen, did the Taoiseach discuss the nature restoration law? In his view, is she still committed to the European Green Deal to tackle climate change? With the European Parliament elections coming up, there is a view that the European People's Party is becoming less committed to climate change and to taking the appropriate measures. Did the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the Spanish Prime Minister. [17783/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: It seems the Taoiseach has had a number of meetings with the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez. I also welcome the outcome of the vote taken at the UN General Assembly last week regarding membership for Palestine. As the Taoiseach knows, Ireland co-sponsored the resolution which received 143 votes, representing approximately 80% of the votes. Ireland was the first EU state to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (14 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: This was the Taoiseach's first European Council meeting. As we have heard, there were several items on the agenda, including the Middle East and Ukraine. On Israel's war on Gaza, the European Council finally agreed, for the first time, to call for an immediate ceasefire, thus discarding the previous and wholly inadequate call for a humanitarian pause. It was also able to agree on the need...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (14 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the special European Council on 17 and 18 April 2024. [21522/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (14 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: 429. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people convicted of sex offences involving minors in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, by county, in tabular form; the number of those convicted who received a fully suspended sentence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21240/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (9 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: 60. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any recent discussions with the British government in relation to the Dublin/Monaghan bombings in 1974; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20773/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (9 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: 63. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any recent discussions with the British government in relation to the terms of reference for the UK Omagh bombing inquiry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20772/24]

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: Article 2 of the Treaty of the European Union states: The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. These values are common to the Member States in a society in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement: Mr. Bertie Ahern (8 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: I thank the Chairman and I thank Bertie, if I can call him that, for being here today and for a very interesting contribution he has just made. I was a TD, as he knows, for the entire duration of his term as Taoiseach, as indeed was Deputy Howlin, which we have just been discussing. It was a privilege to observe at close quarters some of the major events of the time, including the Good...