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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: On the same day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: That was announced in December last year. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Please.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: All of it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Maybe that would be useful. People watching will say there has been a lot of back-and-forward on it here this morning and that they are still confused as to whether the money is on the balance sheet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: That would be useful. Essentially, all €6.25 billion is on balance sheet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: It does not affect it but it is still technically accounted for on the balance sheet. All €6.25 billion is on the State balance sheet. That is good to finish on - total clarification. This is the first outing here of the witnesses and staff of the LDA. I thank them and the officials of the Department of housing for their work in preparing for today’s meeting and the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (10 Oct 2024)
Matt Carthy: Over the past year, as the genocide in Gaza in particular has intensified and as a global boycott campaign has grown, the Israeli economy contracted quite an amount. Its credit rating has been downgraded multiple times and its economy has suffered across virtually every sector. Yet, one area that is apparently booming is its trade in dual-use items with a military purpose with Ireland in...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (10 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (10 Oct 2024)
Matt Carthy: Will the Minister explain precisely what human rights provisions are taken into account? To my knowledge, no such export licence has ever been denied.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (10 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Department of Foreign provided observations in 31 export licence requests where the end use country was Israel in 2024. The Department of Foreign Affairs previously provided 116 cases of foreign policy observations generally across the board to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment on dual-use export licence applications to Israel since 2020, over the past four years. In...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (10 Oct 2024)
Matt Carthy: I am told there is a quote in respect of a number of licences and the fact that they have grown that they raise a higher or potentially more serious risk of misuse because they are going to state agencies or linked companies. That is in respect of dual-use items exported to Israel. To be clear, when a state, whether it be Russia, Israel or any other oppressive state, is currently engaged in...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (10 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (10 Oct 2024)
Matt Carthy: Does the Tánaiste agree that this process needs to be reviewed?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (10 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: I am not so clear the Deputy is correct. He needs to drill down and engage with the Department of enterprise on that question. Concerning dual use in the modern era, with the advance of technology people can assert a dual use for almost anything today, sometimes for negative reasons. I was at the Rafah crossing some months ago and saw built up in every warehouse a range of goods for...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (10 Oct 2024)
Matt Carthy: They are not items that need a dual-use licence, in fairness.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (10 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: The point is that the Department of enterprise goes through this and seeks advice in respect of it. To be fair to all concerned, the Deputy needs to go through each licence application with the Department of enterprise to drill down and see the decision made against the criteria it has to use.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (10 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: We are way over time.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (10 Oct 2024)