Senator Micheál Carrigy

To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which his Department monitors the working capital requirements of the various manufacturing and services sectors on an ongoing basis...

I want to begin by congratulating and thanking the authors of these two excellent reports. The detailed research of difficult and often secretive and even criminal subject matter, as well as their thoughtful conclusions, is impressive.

To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures his Department is taking to ensure that citizenship and human rights education is a priority under the new CSPE junior cycle curriculum at post-primary level; and if he will make a statement on the matter?

Fine Gael TD and member of Oireachtas Health and Children Committee, Peter Fitzpatrick, today (Tuesday), welcomed the news that €14 million worth of tobacco has been seized by customs officers at Drogheda Port.

Fine Gael TD for Roscommon/South Leitrim, Frank Feighan, has been informed by the Department of Health that the pilot air ambulance service, formally known as the Emergency Aeromedical Service (EAS), has carried out 652 time critical missions since its launch in the summer of 2012.

Fine Gael Clare TD and Chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, Pat Breen, will tomorrow (Wednesday) meet with the new Iraqi Ambassador to Ireland, Faik Nerweyi. Deputy Breen has said that the meeting will allow the new Ambassador to provide an up to date account of the worsening humanitarian situation in Iraq.

Fine Gael TD for Limerick, Patrick O’Donovan, has today (Tuesday) welcomed the announcement that a new social welfare scheme will be piloted in Limerick.

Fine Gael Wicklow TD, Simon Harris, has today (Tuesday) said that Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin’s credibility problems won’t be solved by expelling Brian Crowley, and added that the Party’s position on Europe has been seriously undermined.