179. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Ireland will continue to contribute funding the International Commission on Missing Persons, ICMP, in Bosnia and Herzegovina (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40171/17]
178. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to an organisation's recent report (details supplied) documenting the long-term impact of sexual violence on women during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina; and if he will provide aid to organisations that are offering essential medical, psycho-social and legal support to these persons and, on a European level, ensure that they have proper access to justice and reparation. [40170/17]
39. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to recent publications by an organisation (details supplied) documenting significant human rights violations in detention centres in Libya; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that these reports detail that European governments are complicit in torture and that the EU's policy of ring-fencing migrants in Libya must come to an end; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the organisation's resident has said that EU member states are knowingly handing persons over to criminals; and if he will speak out against the EU’s policy of sending persons back into the hands of armed militia groups in Libya. [39765/17]
25. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the violence that is being inflicted on the Rohingya minority in Myanmar; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the UN and NGOs have documented massive human rights abuses and that the violence is likely to constitute ethnic cleansing; if he will speak out against this ethnic cleansing; and if Ireland is providing assistance to Rohingya refugees who have fled over the border to Bangladesh. [39766/17]
20. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a number of recent judicial rulings in Belfast High Court that have highlighted the disclosure and non-disclosure processes on legacy issues operated by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI); if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that these include cases involving Irish citizens and attacks here; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the judgments illustrate the level of frustration evident within the Judiciary that have been wrestling with these issues for two decades; his views on their concerns and the deep frustrations of the families of victims; if he has raised the issue with his British counterpart; and the steps is he taking to ensure that the British government fully implement the Stormont House Agreement mechanisms. [39767/17]
291. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) who went missing after the Argentine security forces evicted a group of the indigenous Mapuche community from their lands in Patagonia due to a dispute with an Italian clothing company (detail supplied); if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the United Nations committee reported that their disappearance required urgent action by the Administration of Argentina’s president, Mauricio Macri; and if he will raise this case with his Argentine counterpart. [39799/17]
290. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the state of the union speech by the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, in the European Parliament on 14 September 2017 (details supplied); and his views on these suggestions. [39798/17]
282. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it is possible for an Irish passport holder to have their gender changed on the foreign births register once they have a gender recognition certificate; if this then entitles them to get a passport in their correct gender; if Irish embassies and consulates abroad have processes in place to help passport holders do this if necessary; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some passport holders are having difficulty getting their foreign births registration entry updated in this regard. [39232/17]
945. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health if his Department or the Health Service Executive has plans to establish a drug addiction clinic and treatment centre on a site (details supplied). [37389/17]
851. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting approval for home care supports; the approximate delay in processing an application; the maximum hours that can be allocated to a person; the percentage deducted from a person's home under the fair deal system; and his plans to allow care packages to be transferred from a nursing home setting to the family home. [37097/17]
465. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to modify the upper age limit to 35 years of age for Australian citizens applying for a working holiday visa here, in line with the new Australian working holiday visa regulations (details supplied) which increase eligibility for Irish citizens to 35 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37088/17]
421. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Skills the building companies involved in building new schools that have been found to have breaches of fire regulations in the most recent fire safety audits commissioned by his Department; and if he will list the schools involved. [38400/17]
420. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools included in the most recent fire safety audits commissioned by his Department; if it included both primary and secondary schools; if he will provide a list of the schools in breach of existing fire regulations and the breaches involved; if the parents, teachers and school boards of management have been informed of the fire regulation breaches; and the new measures he plans to introduce in view of this fire safety review and its outcome. [38399/17]
280. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to facilitate the growing number of households that cannot get house insurance on their homes and properties in flood risk areas in view of difficulties being experienced by home owners throughout the State following flooding in recent years. [38121/17]
1356. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine the possibility of funding a new water sports and activity centre in Athy, County Kildare, in view of the fact that Athy has both a river and a canal and many groups and clubs would benefit from such a new centre. [35406/17]
1284. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the lack of crayfish in the Stradbally river, a tributary of the Barrow river, and minnows in the Barrow; if these losses are due to the massive proliferation of dace; and his plans to help both minnows and crayfish in the river. [35407/17]
1283. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason both the Kilberry and Kildangan areas of County Kildare have bad mobile phone coverage; and his plans to alleviate these ongoing issues. [35405/17]
801. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by the family of a person (details supplied). [35403/17]
608. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the sale of White’s Castle, Athy, County Kildare; and her plans to provide funding to the local authority to purchase this building in view of the fact that it is the second time in ten years the castle has come up for sale and is an important building and location in this heritage town. [35404/17]
488. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 623 of 28 June 2005 (details supplied), his plans to amend same for record of Dáil Éireann. [35402/17]
404. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent trip to Israel and Palestine; the persons he met with; the issues raised; if he discussed the Sinn Féin motion that was passed by Dáil Éireann without opposition on 10 December 2014 calling on the Government to recognise the state of Palestine; and the reason he did not visit Gaza on his three-day visit. [35610/17]
403. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being faced by migrant workers trapped in both Qatar and Saudi Arabia, in view of the fact the group of countries led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE enforces sanctions against Qatar (details supplied); and if he will request the Governments of both countries to eliminate the requirement for an exit visa. [35595/17]
290. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Skills the way the Institute of Technology Tallaght will now support young parents to access third level programmes in view of the closure of its on-site purpose built crèche (details supplied). [35348/17]
289. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the recent decision by the Institute of Technology, Tallaght to reject all recent child care tenders and advertise again and that this will inevitably mean no child care on the campus for the immediate future; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that this will impact on parents who are students in the college (details supplied); and if he will write to the college outlining his concerns. [35345/17]
367. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the detail of the unallocated spend within his Department for 2017; the detail of expenditure allocated to programmes in 2017 which are due to cease in 2017; the spend which will become available within his Department's expenditure profile in 2018 due to changes in demand for services and goods and or changes to costs within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33588/17]
586. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of animals that have escaped from fur farms here in the past five years. [32699/17]
458. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health if the ambulance service in County Kildare has a full complement of staff and no shifts are lost due to staffing issues. [32698/17]
264. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) was arrested by the Bahraini security forces without a warrant after they raided their home; and if he will raise this case with his Bahraini counterpart and call for their immediate and unconditional release. [32837/17]
230. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to schools here in which pupils were requested to buy tablet devices (details supplied) for their studies. [32700/17]
199. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing difficulties being experienced by the family of a person (details supplied) that is attending a preschool; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the family have now been told that their home tuition grant will not be sanctioned due to the fact the person is turning six years of age and does not have a cognitive assessment report; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the same person is two and a half years awaiting this assessment and three and a half years awaiting speech therapy service; his plans to address this delay that is impacting on this person who has autism and sensory process disorder; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32021/17]
198. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by parents and children accessing services at a location (details supplied), in particular, accessing an occupational therapist or a speech therapist; the number of persons awaiting these services; the time they are waiting to access these services; and his plans to reduce and address this backlog that is impacting children and their families. [32019/17]
127. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the date on which the EU-Egypt partnership priorities are due to be published and adopted; if a person's case (details supplied) was raised by his Department during the negotiations of these partnership priorities; and the way in which they will ensure that human rights, fundamental freedoms and the rule of law in Egypt will be safeguarded. [31831/17]
126. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Egypt was discussed at the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting on 6 March 2017; and if so, if he raised the case of a person (details supplied). [31830/17]
125. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by the family of a person (details supplied) in accessing an available space in an autism spectrum disorder unit for the person to attend in September 2017; the number of other persons and families in a similar situation in this locality; and his plans to address this ongoing difficulty. [32020/17]
124. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the World Food Programme, WFP, has indicated more than 500,000 children will die in the next three to four months in northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen if emergency food supplies are not urgently delivered and that funding shortfalls are hindering its ability to help these children and deliver the emergency food supplies; and if he will respond to the WFP funding drive and assist it in tackling these humanitarian crises. [31636/17]
148. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Israeli Government Ministers have called for an increase in the number of illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied Syrian Golan by 100,000 over a five year period; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that in 2016 the Israeli Government approved the construction of 1,600 new illegal colonial settlement units in the Golan; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that due to discriminatory housing policies, Syrians are forced to build without permits risking fines and the full or partial demolition of the building in order to meet their housing needs (details supplied); if he will raise this issue with the Israeli Government; and the steps he is taking to ensure that the EU is raising these and related issues with the Israeli Government through its current political dialogue and will do so during the EU Israel Association Council meeting if it takes place later in 2017. [30510/17]
147. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his meeting with Michel Barnier, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator on 20 June 2017; and if he is requesting special status for Northern Ireland within the EU in his meetings with his EU counterparts and EU Brexit negotiators. [30509/17]
146. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to recognise the state of Palestine further to the motion passed unanimously by Dáil Éireann on 10 December 2014 calling on the Government to recognise same; and the timeline for Ireland's recognition of the state of Palestine. [30508/17]
1059. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health if he will meet with representatives of a group (details supplied) to discuss the appointment of a new expert medical oncologist with sarcoma-specific experience equal to or greater than the expert that previously treated patients at St Vincent's University Hospital. [26741/17]
696. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to Israel's decision to reduce the supply of electricity to Gaza and that the reduction of electricity supplied by Israel to Gaza will cause a certain worsening of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza; and if he will urgently raise his objection to the reduction of this fundamental supply with his Israeli counterpart. [28541/17]
690. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) was tortured, sexually assaulted, verbally abused and threatened with rape by the Bahraini police on 26 May 2017 and that this occurred due to the human rights work they have undertaken; and if his office will urgently raise this case with his Bahraini counterpart and speak out against the increased repression being faced by human rights defenders in Bahrain. [27527/17]
685. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the Sri Lankan Government's active suppression of the right of Tamil war survivors and families of victims to remember those that died in the recent conflict on that island; if his attention has been further drawn to the continued police harassment of a person (detail supplied); if he will condemn the Sri Lankan Government's suppression of memorial activities such as this; and if he will raise the issue with his Sri Lankan counterpart. [27127/17]
684. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland met the UN target of spending at least 0.15% of its gross national income on overseas development assistance to less development countries in 2015 and 2016; and if it is expected to reach this target in 2017 and 2018. [27115/17]
683. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has undertaken a review into the way in which Ireland allocates its ODA to multilateral organisations in view of the Government's announcement that it expects its annual contribution to a bank (details supplied) to count towards its overseas development assistance (ODA), the impact of such allocations and his plans to improve accountability and transparency in this regard; if so, the outcomes of such a review; and if not, if his Department will undertake such a review. [27114/17]
519. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will visit a school (details supplied) in order to view the school in the near future. [27526/17]
517. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties and the physical conditions of the classrooms being experienced by students and staff in a school (details supplied); and if his attention has been further drawn to a verbal agreement made by his Department to the school prior to the original sharing of the school site. [27524/17]
508. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received correspondence from a group (details supplied) dated 20 December 2016 regarding the lumper schools project; if he has replied to the correspondence and the proposal; and if not, when a reply will issue. [27432/17]
440. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which a club (details supplied) in Tallaght, Dublin 24, first contacted his Department seeking an agreement to build on lands currently under the control of his Department adjoining the club and a community school; and the length of time it is expected to wait until official permission is granted to begin the work. [26743/17]
439. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in giving permission to a club (details supplied) in Tallaght, Dublin 24, in conjunction with a school, to carry out proposed building work on lands currently under the control of his Department; if it is a shortage of staff in a particular section of his Department that is causing the years of delay; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that these building works have the support of the entire local community and that the development would help eliminate anti-social behaviour in the immediate area. [26742/17]