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- Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Yes, 400,000 plus. It is Deputy Cowley in Mayo.
- Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (27 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 376 and 379 together. The Irish Aid programme, administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs, provides significant funding annually â over â¬100m in 2007 â to Irish non-governmental organisations to assist them in carrying out their development work. Such funding may include provision for healthcare costs for volunteer development workers arising from...
- Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (27 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: I entirely reject the premise underlying the Deputy's question. As I have informed him in response to his previous Parliamentary Questions on Cuba, the European Union's Common Position on Cuba, negotiated during our 1996 EU Presidency, is at the core of Ireland's policy. The overriding objective of Ireland and our EU partners in our relations with Cuba is to encourage â and not to enforce...
- Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (27 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: The security situation in Darfur remains very unstable and worrying. Ceasefire violations by all parties, including banditry, inter-tribal conflicts and the bombing of civilian sites by the Sudanese airforce are undermining efforts to revitalise the peace process and have dire humanitarian consequences. The Government is making use of all avenues, bilaterally, through the EU and through the...
- Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (27 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: The application for Irish citizenship, through entry in the Foreign Births Register, by the person to whom the Deputy has referred was received in the Department on 2 February, 2007. There has been no undue delay in processing this application. When an application is approved, the details are entered in the Foreign Births Register and an applicant becomes an Irish citizen as and from the...
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (27 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Under the Government's decentralisation programme, the Development Cooperation Directorate of the Department of Foreign Affairs, currently located at Bishop's Square Dublin 2, will decentralise to Limerick. This is scheduled to take place during the second half of 2007 and will involve the relocation to Limerick of 124 posts. The OPW has identified a suitable location on Henry Street in...
- Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (22 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Prior to the introduction of the new Automatic Passport System (APS) in 2005, the figures for lost or mislaid and stolen passports are only available for Ireland. Since the introduction of centralised production with APS from 2005 onwards we can give worldwide figures. The introduction of the biometric or e-Passport on 16 October, 2006 has greatly enhanced the security features of the Irish...
- Order of Business (22 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Was that brief?
- Order of Business (22 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Let him finish.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: We will take no lectures on human rights from stickies.
- Written Answers — Economic Partnership Agreements: Economic Partnership Agreements (21 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are trade agreements currently being negotiated between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of states. The mandate for the negotiation of EPAs comes from the legally-binding Cotonou Agreement, the central objective of which is that of "reducing and eventually eradicating poverty, consistent with the objectives of...
- Written Answers — Extraordinary Rendition: Extraordinary Rendition (21 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: I have made clear on a number of occasions my disappointment with the content of the Report of the Temporary Committee of the European Parliament on extraordinary rendition. In particular, the Committee's figure of 147 allegedly-suspicious flights is grossly inflated, as shown by the identification of only 3 suspicious flights by Senator Dick Marty as part of the Council of Europe's separate...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Be serious.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: The Deputies are not serious.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Exactly.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Deputy Cuffe should go off and buy some shares.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Deputy Cuffe should buy more shares in oil.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Let the Taoiseach answer.
- Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (20 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Security and governance issues remain a serious concern in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but there have been some encouraging developments recently. The generally peaceful and orderly conduct of the 2006 Presidential and Parliamentary elections "the first democratic elections in more than forty years" was a tribute to the strong desire of the Congolese people for an end to conflict and a...
- Written Answers — Departmental Records: Departmental Records (20 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: I would refer the Deputy to my comprehensive reply to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1037 and 1040 on 31st January 2007 in relation to this matter. In that reply, I pointed out that I have no involvement in determining which files should be withheld under the National Archives Act; that is entirely a matter for Departmental officials. As I indicated in my previous reply, I am conscious of the...