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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the critical need for international collaboration across the scientific community and beyond, including open communication, shared resources and coordinated actions. As Dr. Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme, has said, “Nobody is safe until everybody is safe.” Ireland’s...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (28 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: Official Development Assistance (ODA) is an integral element of Ireland’s foreign policy. A Better World, Ireland’s policy for international development, provides a vision for Ireland’s development cooperation, including the clear commitment of the Government to direct ODA to reaching the furthest behind first.  Successive Organisation for Economic Co-operation...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (28 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: Ireland's strong commitment to gender equality and the elimination of gender-based violence is reflected across our foreign policy.  A Better World, Ireland’s policy for international development, sets gender equality as a key cross-cutting priority.  It commits to an overarching focus on women and girls across all our interventions and partnerships, specifically highlighting...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Sustainable Development Goals (28 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: My Department’s Statement of Strategy for 2021-2025, which is currently being prepared, and the relevant business plans, will continue to reflect the centrality of the SDGs and Ireland’s commitment to Agenda 2030. Ireland played a unique and central role in the process to agree Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as co-chair, alongside Kenya of the final...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (28 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: Yemen is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with over 24 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. The spread of COVID-19 in the country could be catastrophic.  Ireland has provided more than €5 million in humanitarian aid to Yemen in 2020, bringing the total since 2015 to €27 million. Our 2020 contribution was provided to the UN's Country Based...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diaspora Issues (28 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: The Government will publish its new Diaspora policy in 2020. Considerable preparatory work has already been undertaken, including extensive public consultations last year in Ireland and with Diaspora communities around the world.  This work is nearly finalised and the new policy will be published later this year.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Constitutional Amendments (28 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: The Government is committed to holding a referendum on extending the franchise at Presidential elections to Irish citizens living outside the State. We will shortly restore the Thirty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Elections) Bill to the Dáil Order Paper.   The date for the holding of the referendum will be decided once the legislation has been approved by...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 338 and 342 together. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade administers and maintains a roster of suitably skilled individuals who are available to deploy on international election observation missions organised, in the main, by the European Union (EU) and the Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of Organisation for Security and Cooperation...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Emigrant Support Services (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: The Emigrant Support Programme (ESP) provides funding to non-profit organisations and projects to support our most vulnerable emigrants overseas, to strengthen Irish communities abroad and to facilitate the development of closer and more strategic links between Ireland and the global Irish. The budget for the programme in 2020 is €12.595 million and is a demonstration of the Government...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Agreements (14 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: Ireland welcomes Costa Rica’s leadership on the Covid-19 Technology Access Pool. We note the leadership role of the EU and its Member States in drafting the Resolution, which recognises extensive immunisation against Covid-19 as a global public good for health, and in funding the Access to Covid-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator. We share the objectives for the initiative to achieve a common...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (14 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 455 and 456 together. Driven by the continued conflict, and worsened by the spread of COVID-19, Yemen remains the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with 80 per cent of the population in need of humanitarian assistance. Ireland has so far this year provided €5 million in funding to the United Nations Yemen Humanitarian Fund (YHF). This...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (14 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: Annual financial allocations of overseas foreign aid are approved by an Interdepartmental Committee under Vote 27 (International Cooperation). Over the past five-year period (2015 to 2019), aid expenditure totalling €740,975,324has been channelled via thirteen Irish Missions, including Embassies, in Africa, Asia and Palestine. Details are set out below. Allocations managed by...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Referendum Campaigns (14 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: We are committed to holding a referendum on extending the franchise at Presidential elections to Irish citizens living outside the State. The Government will shortly restore the Thirty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Elections) Bill to the Dáil Order Paper. The date for the holding of the referendum will be decided once the legislation has been approved by the Oireachtas.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (30 Jun 2020)

Colm Brophy: I wish to raise an issue about that. We need to establish clarity on schedules for this committee and the Dáil as soon as possible. We have a situation where we are about to start a session and Deputies have been notified that should be present for a potential vote in the National Convention Centre at midday. That would run a coach-and-four through the middle of this session.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (30 Jun 2020)

Colm Brophy: It is. This situation is likely to continue.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (30 Jun 2020)

Colm Brophy: Perhaps Deputy Boyd Barrett is able to pull off bilocation. What are we going to do about this situation? Are we as a committee going to request some automatic full pairing? Are we going to just let it happen? We need to deal proactively with the Whip's office in this regard.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (30 Jun 2020)

Colm Brophy: I have a second point on the working group. I believe there was a discussion about reports on Friday.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (30 Jun 2020)

Colm Brophy: I was wondering when that will come back to us as a full committee, out of a working group discussion, to look at the proposals and make decisions. What is the thinking of the Chair and the working group? While I gather it is progressing quite a bit, I am not sure of the status of that Friday working group. Will the committee as a whole decide what reports we produce, when we produce them...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (30 Jun 2020)

Colm Brophy: I have no problem with that at all.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: SME Recovery (30 Jun 2020)

Colm Brophy: Is the new system in operation?