Results 14,121-14,140 of 16,849 for speaker:Dermot Ahern
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: The Deputy is ill-informed.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: The Deputy is pathetic. It is a good story and Deputy Kenny is trying to ruin it.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Mr. Finbar Fitzpatrick is sending texts to the Deputy.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Joint leadership.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: That is a touchy subject.
- Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (6 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: As I have made clear on many occasions, the decision to search a particular aircraft, if and when warranted in accordance with law, would be a matter for An Garda SÃochána. The Government's clear objective throughout has been to ensure that our territory is not used for extraordinary rendition purposes. As a result of swift and decisive action on the part of the Government, we received...
- Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (6 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: The Passport Office may issue an additional passport to a citizen where business, frequent travel or particular visa requirements make it necessary to hold a second travel document. In general, such second passports would have a restricted validity. In addition, diplomatic passport holders, such as members of the diplomatic service, would have their own standard passports for private travel....
- Written Answers — Official Travel: Official Travel (6 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: The total cost incurred by the Department of Foreign Affairs in respect of official commercial flights in 2006 relating to the discharge of official business amounted to â¬3,681,818. This covers, inter alia, the travel of staff of the 12 divisions of the Department at HQ, including Irish Aid, a significant part of whose work is servicing meetings and conferences overseas, as well as the...
- Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (6 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: As set out in previous PQ replies, most recently on 23 November 2006, I am aware of allegations regarding the harvesting of live organs from Falun Gong practitioners, including as set out in a recent report by two Canadian human rights experts, Mr. David Matas and Mr. David Kilgour, on behalf of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of the Falun Gong in China (CIPFG). I view these...
- Written Answers — Official Travel: Official Travel (6 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Details of my travel using commercial airlines during 2006, as well as the approximate distance travelled, are as follows: Date From To Approximate distance (miles) 11-15 March London Dallas 4,740 Dallas Washington 1,170 08-13 May Dublin London 279 London Tokyo 5,960 Tokyo Beijing 1,340 Beijing Frankfurt 4,840 Frankfurt Dublin 674 02 June London Dublin 279 ...
- Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (6 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: I am especially concerned at the increased rate of rape and gender based violence in parts of Darfur and the lack of progress being made by courts there to address these crimes as detailed in the UN Secretary General's report of 28 December 2006. Since 2003, gender based violence targeted at women and girls has been a consistent feature of the conflict in Darfur. Women have been raped during...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: They are not listening.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: The Deputy should be serious about it.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: He is still getting the GMS.
- Written Answers — National Development Plan: National Development Plan (1 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: The Department of Foreign Affairs has no involvement in any such project in the last National Development Plan.
- Written Answers — Parliamentary Questions: Parliamentary Questions (1 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: A total of 1,337 parliamentary questions were replied to by my Department in 2006. As no record is kept of the time taken by Departmental officials in formulating draft replies, it is not possible to indicate the total cost involved in replying to these questions.
- Written Answers — Statutory Instruments: Statutory Instruments (1 Feb 2007)
Dermot Ahern: I wish to advise the Deputy that no Statutory Instruments were made by me in 2006 and, as a consequence, the issue of compliance with the publication requirements of Section 3 of the Statutory Instruments Act, 1947, did not arise.
- Written Answers — National Minimum Wage: National Minimum Wage (31 Jan 2007)
Dermot Ahern: All staff employed in Ireland by the Department of Foreign Affairs, or by bodies under its aegis, currently earn more than one Euro per hour above the national minimum wage. This also applies to staff on posting at Irish Missions abroad. The practice followed by the Department in relation to locally employed staff abroad is to provide salaries and conditions of employment in accordance with...