Results 181-200 of 1,084 for speaker:Colm Brophy in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (20 May 2020)

Colm Brophy: 740. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects disability services, particularly day services and respite care, will resume in care facilities, for example, a facility (details supplied) in Dublin 6W. [6200/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Colm Brophy: 1351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the Covid-19 emergency legislation for tenants past the initial 90-day period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6201/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (3 Jun 2020)

Colm Brophy: 1272. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the date the National Famine Commemoration Day 2021, due to take place in Buncrana, County Donegal, will be held on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8681/20]

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.

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: 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: 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: Departmental Expenditure (30 Jul 2020)

Colm Brophy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 573 and 575 together. The Irish Red Cross Society was established by the Irish Red Cross Society Order 1939 pursuant to the Red Cross Act, 1938 and is an independent charitable body corporate with full power to manage and administer its own affairs. Funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to the Irish Red Cross ceased in 2018 and there are...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (8 Sep 2020)

Colm Brophy: Ireland's development cooperation programme has been recognised internationally for its commitment to Least Developed Countries (LDCs). This is in line with our international development policy, A Better World, which commits Ireland to reaching the furthest behind first. The OECD's latest development cooperation Peer Review of Ireland was published earlier this year. That Peer Review...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (8 Sep 2020)

Colm Brophy: I refer the Deputy to the response to Parliamentary Questions No. 338 and No. 342 of 21 July in answer to which details of the members of the election observation roster were provided. That response notes that consideration was given to providing further information beyond the names of the members (including their residences) and it was not determined to be in the public interest to do so. ...