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Seanad: Overseas Development Aid: Motion. (9 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: I am not embarrassed at all.

Seanad: Overseas Development Aid: Motion. (9 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: We are back on track after a brief interruption in services.

Seanad: Overseas Development Aid: Motion. (9 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: In volume terms, it is enormous.

Seanad: Overseas Development Aid: Motion. (9 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: Senator Norris was not present earlier. We have achieved the target with regard to "the least of these", the least developed countries. The target is now 1.5% of GNP and we have achieved it, so in terms of the biblical quotation——

Seanad: Overseas Development Aid: Motion. (9 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: The figures.

Seanad: Overseas Development Aid: Motion. (9 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: On a point of information, Jeffrey Sachs accepts in his report that there is an absorption capacity issue even with regard to the millennium development goals in Africa. He predicates it on a capability of 30% more in terms of absorption capacity. If that is so, we cannot increase it by 40%.

Seanad: Overseas Development Aid: Motion. (9 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: He is the UN man reviewing the millennium development goals.

Seanad: Overseas Development Aid: Motion. (9 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: No doubt the events of 11 September 2001 did not happen.

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: It might be found with Deputy Ó Snodaigh's posters.

Industrial Disputes. (16 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: I am addressing this issue on behalf of my colleague the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Noel Dempsey. The Minister has asked me to make two specific points at the outset. First, he does not have primary responsibility within the Government for industrial relations issues. Second, the situation currently pertaining at board level in the ESB is an internal...

Offshore Exploration. (16 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: I am addressing this matter this evening on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Noel Dempsey. On the question of the quantified risk assessment referred to by the Minister in a reply to a parliamentary question raised by Deputy Cowley and answered on 9 February last, the assessment to which he was referring was not the Johnson report...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (17 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: Ireland was one of the first countries to respond in the wake of the earthquake in Bam, Iran in December 2003. On 26 December 2003, the day the earthquake struck, the Government immediately pledged €1 million in funding for the humanitarian and recovery operations. Subsequently, assistance amounting to a total of €1.57 million was delivered; €500,000 of the pledge was channelled to the...

Leaders' Questions. (22 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: No other party in Leinster House has guns.

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (22 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: Action Aid Ireland received the following support from the Government's programme of assistance to developing countries: 2003 2004 â'¬ â'¬ NGO Co-Financing Block Grants 800,000 800,000 HIV/Aids Partnership Scheme (HAPS) 499,512 277,371.60 Development Education 11,165 16,000 Total 1,310,677 1,093,371.60

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (22 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: The letter referred to in the Deputy's question concerns the challenges for Ireland and the international community in 2005 in achieving the millennium development goals, the UN target for official development assistance, the international trade agenda, insecurity, in particular in Darfur in Sudan, and the need to tackle the global arms trade. On the millennium development goals, MDGs, I am...

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (22 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: I propose to take Question Nos. 188 to 196, inclusive, together. The legally binding Cotonou Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific, ACP, states and the European Union provides for the negotiation of economic partnership agreements, EPAs, between the parties. Since trade is a European Community competence, the European Commission negotiates the EPAs between the EU and six...

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Bill 2002: From the Seanad (Resumed). (23 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: This amendment relates to the application of the rule of speciality in respect of persons surrendered by Ireland and entailed an amendment to section 69 which inserts a revised section 22 in the European Arrest Warrant Act. The rule of speciality provides that a person may be proceeded against only in respect of the offence for which he or she was surrendered. Article 27 of the framework...

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Bill 2002: From the Seanad (Resumed). (23 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: This amends the current text of section 23(1) of the European Arrest Warrant Act as inserted by section 70 of this Bill. Section 23 deals with the question of onward surrender to a third member state of a person surrendered by Ireland to the first member state. It gives effect to Article 28 of the framework decision. The essential position under this section is that a person must not be...

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Bill 2002: From the Seanad (Resumed). (23 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: Seanad amendment No. 27 inserts a new subsection (3) in section 70 of the Bill which relates to section 23 of the European Arrest Warrant Act 2003. Section 23 of that Act deals with requests for the surrender of a person by the issuing state to another member state. Section 26 gives effect to Article 28 of the framework decision. That article dealt with the question of a person being...

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Bill 2002: From the Seanad (Resumed). (23 Feb 2005)

Conor Lenihan: Seanad amendment No. 35 provides for the insertion of a new section 72 in the Bill which in turn replaces the existing section 42 of the European Arrest Warrant Act 2003. Section 42 of that Act sets out one of the grounds for refusal to surrender a wanted person. It provides that a person shall not be surrendered while the Director of Public Prosecutions or the Attorney General are...