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- Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: I propose to take Question Nos. 39 and 119 together. Ireland attaches the greatest importance to the millennium development goals and has adopted them as the overarching framework for our development co-operation programme. The goals correspond to Development Co-operation Ireland's focus on reducing poverty and supporting the provision of basic services to the poorest people. Deputies will be...
- Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: Education is one of the most important instruments for reducing poverty and inequality and for laying the basis for sustained economic growth. The importance of every child in every country having the opportunity to complete primary school education forms the basis of the Dakar framework for action agreed in Senegal at the World Education Forum in 2000. The goals agreed in Dakar were...
- Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: The report to which the Deputy refers, Working Together For Better Outcomes â A Public Expenditure Review of Development Co-operation Ireland's Support to Education in Uganda and Zambia 2000-03, was commissioned to provide the Oireachtas with an analytical overview of Ireland's expenditure in the education sectors in Zambia and Uganda for the years 2000-03, in the context of the public...
- Written Answers — Humanitarian Situations: Humanitarian Situations (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 68, 84 and 170 together. I remain deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation in Sudan, particularly in the Darfur region of western Sudan. As the Deputy will be aware, there has been a recent escalation in violence in west Darfur with attacks on internally displaced persons, IDPs, humanitarian workers and members of the African Union Mission in Sudan....
- Written Answers — Humanitarian Situations: Humanitarian Situations (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: Since 2004, an early end to the rains and desert locust damage to crops and pasture lands adversely affected pasture availability and cereal production in the Sahel region of west Africa. These events exacerbated existing poverty and vulnerability resulting in severe food shortages across a wide region, including in Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Mauritania. In response to the food crisis,...
- Written Answers — International Summits: International Summits (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: The summit meeting of the G8 on 6 and 8 July addressed a number of important issues, some of which have particular relevance for international development. In particular, I warmly welcome the decision to double aid for Africa by 2010. Taken together with the decision of the European Union to devote 0.56% of its gross national income, GNI, to official development assistance by 2010 and to...
- Written Answers — Humanitarian Situations: Humanitarian Situations (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: South Africa is one of the most highly affected countries in the world with regard to HIV and AIDS and prevalence rates stand at 21.5% of the adult population. At the end of 2003, with an estimated 5.3 million people living with HIV and AIDS, South Africa had the largest number of individuals living with the virus in a single country. Women contract the virus at a much earlier age than their...
- Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: The Government's programme of assistance to developing countries reflects our long-standing commitment to human rights and fairness in international relations and the recognition that democratisation, good governance and the promotion of human rights are as important as economic policy and reform for reducing poverty and achieving development. Support to good governance and democratisation is...
- Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: Each year more than 500,000 women die as a result of complications associated with pregnancy or giving birth, 95% of which deaths occur in Africa and Asia with less than 1% occurring in more developed countries. Many millions of women who survive childbirth suffer illness and disability afterwards. The reduction of maternal mortality is one of the key targets of the millennium declaration....
- Written Answers — Natural Disasters: Natural Disasters (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: Ireland has committed â¬1 million in financial assistance for those affected by hurricane Katrina. Of this, some â¬700,000 has been channelled to the American Red Cross through the Irish Red Cross. The remainder will be disbursed by the Irish Embassy in the United States with the objective of assisting civil society groups in the Gulf Coast area in the local recovery effort. Ireland, along...
- Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 171 and 172 together. The challenges facing Africa are enormous. Food insecurity, starvation, conflict and HIV-AIDS appear at times to create an endless cycle of poverty and conflict. Addressing these issues is one of the most important tasks to which we can dedicate ourselves in the 21st century. The Government responds in two ways to the humanitarian and...
- Written Answers — Debt Relief: Debt Relief (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: At their meeting in Gleneagles in July, the G8 countries agreed on an initiative for the cancellation of debt owed to the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the IMF. The scheme will provide for the cancellation of debt for 18 heavily indebted poor countries â HIPCs. The G8 initiative has been welcomed by Ministers meeting in the development committee ministerial meetings of the...
- Human Rights Issues. (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: The Greens in Germany do the exact same.
- Human Rights Issues. (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: Who will be leading him by the hand?
- Human Rights Issues. (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: How can we do business?
- Human Rights Issues. (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: We are very diplomatic on this side of the House.
- Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: Under the Government's decentralisation programme, announced in December 2003, the development co-operation directorate of the Department of Foreign Affairs, currently based in Dublin, is scheduled to decentralise to Limerick. This will involve the relocation to Limerick of 123 posts and is scheduled to take place during the first quarter of 2007. The Office of Public Works is currently...
- Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: To take the last part of the Deputy's question first, I do not get myself involved directly in the identification of a location or site for this particular office. Clearly that is a matter for the Office of Public Works. The Department is very happy to allow the OPW to continue to handle that aspect. It has identified a number of sites. I cannot shed any light for the Deputy on the value of...
- Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: ââor what will be spent.
- Decentralisation Programme. (6 Oct 2005)
Conor Lenihan: I want to be fully transparent with the Deputy on this matter. My officials have been to Limerick and have looked at a number of different sites identified by the OPW.