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Written Answers — Education Welfare Service: Education Welfare Service (5 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the distribution of education welfare officers on a county basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13346/06]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (5 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the legislation to establish a register of persons considered unsafe to work with children will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13347/06]

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: Question 278: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount expended in renaming Development Co-operation Ireland as Irish Aid; the amount previously expended in renaming Ireland Aid as Development Co-operation Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12999/06]

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: Question 275: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of principal development and senior development specialists with Irish Aid volunteering to decentralise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13300/06]

Common Foreign and Security Policy. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: Does the Minister agree that the concept of a battlegroup is that of one which is capable of responding effectively and rapidly to global crises such as genocide? The Minister for Defence attended a recent meeting of the General Affairs and External Relations Committee at which he set out his plans, which were in line with the Minister's previous comments. Could the Minister calmly clarify...

Common Foreign and Security Policy. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: I asked the question because there is an obvious contradiction in respect of this issue. I am not attempting to make a political point.

Common Foreign and Security Policy. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: It is a matter of common sense. The Minister spoke about the view of the Irish people on the matter but this has never been tested. If tested, it would be revealed that the Irish people believe that Irish foreign policy should not be dictated by countries like China, which would have the power to veto any Irish initiative. This is the net effect of the triple lock. A major contradiction and...

Foreign Conflicts. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the security situation in Iraq; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13006/06]

Foreign Conflicts. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the security situation in Iraq; if his attention has been drawn to UN concerns with regard to the safety of Palestinians living in that State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13025/06]

Foreign Conflicts. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will demand a United Nations investigation into the manner in which moneys set aside for reconstruction work in Iraq have been spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13298/06]

Foreign Conflicts. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: I asked if the Minister for Foreign Affairs would press for a UN investigation into the misappropriation of funds. Instead the Minister spent four minutes before addressing the misappropriation of 363 tonnes of 100 dollar bills imported into Iraq since the lifting of sanctions on 22 May 2003. There is a black hole of accountability in this matter with no monitoring of spending. The...

Foreign Conflicts. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: Yet UN Resolution No. 1483 failed to do so.

Foreign Conflicts. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: The Minister says he is a great friend of President Bush and the US Administration, but has he asked the President where all the money has gone from Iraq? Where have the 363 tonnes of hundred dollar bills that were shipped to Iraq gone? There were enough banknotes to pay for the Pentagon four times over but where has that money gone? Will the Minister get real and accept that the...

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the contact being made with the US Administration on behalf of the undocumented Irish in the United States of America; the efforts being undertaken to urge support for key elements of the Kennedy-McCain Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13299/06]

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: The Minister spoke about consensus and reconciliation and I agree almost totally with his analysis that the Senate faces a major task in addressing the report of the judiciary committee. I fear, however, that it may get through the Senate before the Easter recess but the House of Representatives will be the main stumbling block. I hope what emerges from the process will reflect the efforts of...

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: The Minister is engaging in the politics of desperation.

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: Self-praise is no praise.

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: I know what it is all about.

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: The Minister should not hide any other party's light.

Emigrant Issues. (4 Apr 2006)

Bernard Allen: The Minister may be a political animal but there should be united purpose and the sort of rubbish that someone in the Department may have written and the Minister may not have seen——