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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (27 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: A Better World, Ireland's international development policy, identifies reaching the furthest behind first as a key objective, mandating the Irish Aid programme to work with countries and people in greatest need. Half of Ireland’s bilateral development assistance is specifically targeted at assisting low income and least developed countries, double the OECD average: additionally, Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (27 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: In line with our Policy for International Development: A Better World, and international best practice, Ireland delivers its Official Development Assistance (ODA) programme through a range of different channels. These channels include funding through Multilateral Organisations, Non-Government Organisations and government systems in partner countries amongst others. Approximately 60 percent...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (26 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: A Better World, the Government's policy for international development, committed to the scaling up of Irish Aid support for education. In 2018, my Department made a pledge to provide €250 million in support to education up to 2023. By the end of 2020, Irish Aid had allocated over €113 million in assistance to education. The final outturn for 2021 is currently being...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (26 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: My Department, through the Irish Aid programme, is a strong supporter of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, a global humanitarian network of 80 million people that assists those facing disaster, conflict and health and social emergencies. The Movement comprises the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (ICRC) and the International Federation of the Red...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (26 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 87 to 89, inclusive, together. I refer the Deputy to Parliamentary Questions No. 120 of 29 January 2019, No. 410 of 24 November 2020, No. 304 of 25 May 2021 and No. 310 of 16 November 2021. Ireland's current International Election Observation Roster of 197 volunteers, which is facilitated by my Department, is in effect from 1 January 2019 to 31...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Climate Change Policy (26 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: In January 2020, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform introduced mandatory new procedures for all Departments for offsetting the emissions associated with official airline travel. In line with these procedure the Department records the carbon emissions associated with all official air travel, values these emissions based on the prevailing rates of Ireland’s domestic Carbon...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Communities Abroad (26 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: Many Irish emigrants and their descendants have been elected or served in public office in countries around the world. My Department, through our Embassies and Consulates, maintains close contacts and connections with many of these individuals, in particular through groups such as the "Friends of Ireland" in the US Congress and state legislatures. My Department does not hold...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Communities Abroad (26 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: Many Irish emigrants and their descendants have been elected or served in public office in countries around the world. My Department, through our Embassies and Consulates, maintain close contacts and connections with many of these individuals, in particular through groups such as the "Friends of Ireland" in the US Congress and state legislatures. My Department does not hold information...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (26 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: Ireland remains committed to an effective global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past two years, my Department, through the Irish Aid programme, has invested €200 million in global public health with further investment to come in 2022 of at least another €100 million. This includes COVID-19 specific response measures, and ongoing work to strengthen health systems for...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Travel Documents (25 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: My Department has not been informed of Irish citizens experiencing difficulties with tourist visa applications for travel to Ethiopia, noting that operation and processing of visas for Ethiopia is of course a matter for the Ethiopian authorities. My Department published a ‘Do Not Travel’ advisory on the Department’s website (www.dfa.ie) in respect of travel to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Legislative Measures (25 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: The Government is committed to holding a referendum on extending the franchise at Presidential elections to Irish citizens living outside the State as set out in the Programme for Government and affirmed in the new Diaspora Strategy which was launched in November 2020. To this end the Government restored the Thirty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Elections) Bill 2019 to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (25 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: A Better World, the Government's policy for international development, establishes gender equality as a policy priority. Ireland is consistently among those OECD countries with the highest annual proportion of official development assistance (ODA) invested in gender equality measures. The 2019 annual report on Government of Ireland ODA had a particular focus on the wider Irish Aid support...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Access (19 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: I am gravely concerned by the situation in Afghanistan which is now one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Nearly 23 million Afghans now face acute food insecurity. In response, the Government through its Official Development Assistance (ODA) programme, Irish Aid, has provided over €4 million in humanitarian support for the people of Afghanistan since mid-August. This...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Vaccination Programme (19 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: Ireland fully supports international efforts to ensure an effective global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the need for fair access to knowledge, property rights, and technology. My Department, through the Irish Aid programme, has responded with a global public health investment of €200 million over the past two years, with further Irish Aid investment in global...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Vaccination Programme (19 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: Ireland fully supports international efforts to ensure an effective global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the need for fair access to knowledge, property rights, and technology. My Department, through the Irish Aid programme, has responded with a global public health investment of €200 million over the past two years, with further Irish Aid investment in global...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Access (19 Jan 2022)

Colm Brophy: I am gravely concerned by the situation in Afghanistan, which is now one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Nearly 23 million Afghans now face acute food insecurity. In response, the Government through its Official Development Assistance (ODA) programme, Irish Aid, has provided over €4 million in humanitarian support for the people of Afghanistan since mid-August. This...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 Dec 2021)

Colm Brophy: Presidential and parliamentary elections took place in Uganda on 14 January 2021, with the incumbent President Museveni returned for his sixth term with 58% of the vote, while his key challenger Robert Kyagulanyi (known as Bobi Wine) garnered 35% of the vote.  The President's reinauguration took place on 12 May 2021, with no legal challenges against the result outstanding.  This...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2021)

Colm Brophy: Ireland is committed to universal and fair access to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. This is essential for our health at home as well in low income countries where the impact of the pandemic is reversing hard won gains and deepening social and economic inequalities. Currently just over 55% of the global adult population is vaccinated, but this falls to rates as low as 1.3% in some of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Access (14 Dec 2021)

Colm Brophy: The humanitarian situation in Somalia is worsening, exacerbated by a three year long drought which has affected more than 2.8 million people in 66 out of the 74 districts in Somalia. An estimated 133,000 people, mostly in central and southern areas have been displaced. There are fears that the situation could continue to worsen into 2022. The Somalia government declared a state of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Dec 2021)

Colm Brophy: Universal and equitable access to safe, effective and affordable vaccines, diagnostics and treatments is crucial in the global fight against COVID-19. My colleague, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, leads on trade and World Trade Organisation matters (WTO), including on the current discussion on the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement....