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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Chair. I will be brief. I welcome Mr. Keown and Mr. Smyth and thank them for their assistance. I welcome that the Government is adopting this twin-track approach of trying to influence matters at European level and enact what the public will see as Senator Frances Black's legislation, no matter what we produce at the end of the day. I cannot remember any occasion over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: So we are talking about €214,000 worth of goods. Are they made of up fruit, vegetables and other items? Do we know the nature of the goods?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Do we know the value of services that would be envisaged by this Bill, were they to be included? Reference was made to the opinion of the Attorney General. We have a very eminent Attorney General, and we have had many very eminent Attorneys General over the years. I am not looking in any particular direction. It is very frustrating, given the length of time this Bill has been in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: If the value was only €10, the symbolic value of the legislation is still absolutely enormous in terms of the leadership role it allows this country to take on this particular matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: How frequently are such infringement proceedings taken?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the witnesses.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Tánaiste will not be surprised that I rise to speak today to mention the illegal encampments on the Curragh Plains. In mentioning them, I immediately thank the Tánaiste and his official for the speed with which they moved in the earlier part of this year to deal with the several illegal encampments which were established. The Tánaiste's alacrity contrasts with the way in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (26 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 20. To ask the Minister for Health for a report on Sharing the Vision: A Mental Health Policy for Everyone' Implementation Plan 2025 - 2027; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34708/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 68. To ask the Minister for Health the capital investment being made in mental health for 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34707/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Projects (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 15. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 256 of 19 March 2025, he will set out the steps that have been taken to date to implement the Programme for Government to introduce a new management system for the Curragh Plains; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34604/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Projects (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 16. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if, having regard to the expeditious manner in which he and his Department dispersed earlier encampments this year on the Curragh Plains, his Department will move with equal alacrity to seek the removal of the current very large illegal encampment now relocated to the Rathbride Road, including a number of vehicles, caravans, and campervans...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Projects (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 17. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total cost incurred by his Department from 2020 in clean-ups of the Curagh Plains following illegal encampments; any legal costs incurred; for an indication of the man hours required to deal with the situation on the part of employees of the Department of Defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34606/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 277 of 4 March 2025, the reason the response has not been received; if the response will be sought; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34646/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 400 of 17 June 2025, regarding a school (details supplied) if she will ensure, given the significant health and safety issues that are involved, together with the unavoidable delay in delivering a special education unit at the school, urgent approval will be given to ensure that essential works will be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will put in place guidelines to local authorities for the reletting of casual vacancies setting a maximum timeframe within which a house must be relet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34647/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he agrees that it is totally unacceptable in a housing crisis for a local authority to take up to one year to relet a residential property; if he will engage with local authorities to ensure the efficiency of their procedures in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34648/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department will urgently assess the impact of their random reviews of means tested payments to the very old and disabled, having regard to the fact that the impact on the vulnerable people involved in terms of stress and anxiety may be far greater than any benefit achieved for the State and may in fact contribute to...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I welcome the Minister and his officials here. It is really beneficial for the country as a whole that our Minister for foreign affairs is a senior political figure because it emphasises the importance of the role we play. Internationally, a total of €1.314 billion is spent to secure our place and standing in the international community and to allow the State to respond on behalf of...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Our international climate fund financing is committed to be around €225 million and it looks like we will achieve that. Will we increase that funding into the future? When looking at the overall objective of what we are meant to have, how does the Tánaiste feel when we juxtapose our increasing funding with those major nations that are reducing their contribution?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I will put my remaining questions together. Regarding the shared island civic society fund and the reconciliation fund, we see a reduction in funding, if not a reduction in commitment. Why are we seeing that reduction and what does the future hold in that respect? With regard to enlargement, we are committed to spending €1 million. Are we targeting that at any specific country or...