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Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (20 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: Under the Government's decentralisation programme, the Development Cooperation Directorate of the Department of Foreign Affairs 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. At present, 54 posts in the Directorate are filled by officers who have signalled their intention to decentralise...

Order of Business (20 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: The Deputy obviously is not keeping her ear to the ground.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: He is at it all of the time.

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (15 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 96 to 101, inclusive, together. As the Deputy is aware, I addressed this matter comprehensively in my reply to Priority Question Number 3 of 8 February 2007 and to subsequent supplementary questions. The case to which he refers in Questions 96, 97 and 101 relates to five Cuban citizens who were convicted in the US in 2001 on charges ranging from espionage to...

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: Some of us do not have the time.

Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: Hear, hear. The Opposition would accuse us if we did.

Moriarty Report: Statements (14 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: This report is necessary, timely and extremely clear. It is damning, shocking and forensic. Above all, it is credible. The greatest respect we can give this report is to implement a programme of fundamental reforms to ensure the events outlined in its pages do not recur. We do not need gestures, verbiage or crass political narratives but action, delivery, legislation and follow through,...

Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: How independent is the Deputy?

Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: Independent of what?

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: Knowing Labour Members are 60-plus and rising, they are tired.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: 60-plus Pat. You would not answer on Saturday.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: The socialists are 70s.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland Issues: Northern Ireland Issues (13 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: As the Deputy will know, the issue of a bridge at Narrow Water has been mooted for many decades. I am delighted to inform the Deputy that in the National Development Plan for the period 2007 to 2013, the Government proposed, for the first time, significant investment in projects and initiatives for mutual benefit, North and South. The Government wishes to agree and implement these with the...

Written Answers — EU Funding: EU Funding (13 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: The Votes relating to the Department of Foreign Affairs did not include any allocation of European Union funds for the years in question. All of the funds allocated to the Department are voted by the Dáil as part of the normal Estimates process.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland Issues: Northern Ireland Issues (8 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: The Police Ombudsman's report into the circumstances surrounding the killing of Raymond McCord junior is a shocking catalogue of murder, serious crime and collusion: events which should never have been allowed to happen. Its findings are damning, particularly on the failings of RUC Special Branch in the 1990s. The Ombudsman has found that RUC officers colluded in crimes by their failure to...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (8 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 10 and 95 together. My Department initially became aware of the case the Deputy is referring to through reports in the media, but the priest referred to has written to me in recent days, and I have instructed the Department to pursue the issues involved. Our Ambassador in Singapore, who is also accredited to the Philippines, has now raised the matter...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (8 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: I am aware that legislative changes in relation to homosexuality have been proposed in Nigeria. A Bill entitled 'Prohibition of Relationship between Persons of the Same Sex, Celebration of Marriage by them and other matters connected therewith' had its Second Reading on 17 May 2006 and was referred to the Nigerian Parliament's Joint Committees on Women Affairs and Youth Development, Human...

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (8 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: I propose taking Questions Nos. 13, 30 and 81 together. In regard to the nuclear agreement between India and the United States, I would refer the Deputies to the priority questions today on this issue. In July 2005, President Bush and Prime Minister Singh agreed to establish a new strategic partnership between their two countries. One element of that partnership was a proposed agreement on...

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (8 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 14 and 65 together. While significant progress has been achieved in Afghanistan, considerable challenges still remain. The reform process in the country is continuing with the assistance of the international community, and it is vitally important that the progress made since 2002 is consolidated. The security situation in Afghanistan remains a cause of...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (8 Feb 2007)

Dermot Ahern: The situation to which the Deputy refers concerns a state of civil unrest in Oaxaca in southern Mexico, which began with a strike by teachers in May 2006. This strike subsequently developed into a prolonged and increasingly violent and politicised protest whose objectives included removing the elected State Governor. The immediate consequence was the occupation by the protesters of the main...