Catherine Connolly

Independent · Galway West

Activity on Foreign Affairs — 354 events (9 lobbying · 344 questions · 1 votes) full profile →

• 2026-01-21
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  Christian Aid Ireland Foreign Affairs

  • Occupied Territories Bill 2018 / Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025
• 2026-01-12
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  Azadi CLG Foreign Affairs

  • Presidental candidates were contacted to inform an article on Ireland's role in Türkiye-Kurdish peace process
• 2025-10-21
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of his recent engagement at EU level with regard to suspending the EU Israel Association Agreement; if he will push for full suspension of the agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57191/25]
• 2025-09-19
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  Trócaire Foreign Affairs

  • Climate Justice
• 2025-09-17
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  Christian Aid Ireland Foreign Affairs

  • Occupied Territories Bill 2018 / Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025
• 2025-07-15
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland has offered assistance following the request of the International Criminal Court for support from the international community to help mitigate the recent cybersecurity attack on that court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39027/25]
• 2025-07-10
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason the import of trade in services from the occupied Palestinian territories, and exports from Ireland to the occupied Palestinian territories in both goods and services, have been excluded from the general scheme of the Israeli settlements in the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38299/25]
• 2025-07-10
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade by whom Ireland will be represented at the emergency ministerial meeting of the Hague Group on 15 and 16 July 2025 in Colombia, to address Israel's international law violations; his plans for Ireland to join the Hague Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38300/25]
• 2025-07-10
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason two US Air Force Hercules C130J aircraft numbers 14-5815 and 15-5832 were authorised to land at Shannon Airport about 19.30 on 3 July 2025, having come from Chania joint air base in Crete, and allowed to spend two overnights at Shannon Airport before flying on to Keflavik in Iceland on 5 July 2025; if any investigations or searches were carried out to establish whether these two specialised aircraft had been involved in recent US military operations in Gaza or Iran; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38531/25]
• 2025-06-17
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is satisfied that an aircraft which landed at Shannon Airport on 21 May 2025 was not operating as a “state aircraft” with reference to the definition provided for by section 5 of the Air Navigation and Transport Act 1950, or as a "foreign military aircraft" with reference to the definition provided pursuant to S.I. No. 74/1952 - Air Navigation (Foreign Military Aircraft) Order 1952, in light of legal filings submitted by the United States Department of Homeland Security to the US Supreme Court, which described the aircraft as a “military flight” (details supplied); if he is satisfied that the landing of that aircraft without the prior approval by the Government did not amount to a breach of the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32758/25]
• 2025-06-11
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken to secure the release of an Irish woman detained by Israel in the West Bank (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31215/25]
• 2025-05-29
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 37 of 11 February 2025, the timeline for the passage of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 that incorporates a ban on imports and services from these areas, supported by the advisory opinion on the illegality of Israel’s occupation and settlements issued on 19 July 2024 by the International Court of Justice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27350/25]
• 2025-05-29
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of all arms transferred through Shannon Airport or Irish airspace by any nation for use by the Israeli army; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27351/25]
• 2025-05-21
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  Christian Aid Ireland Foreign Affairs

  • Human rights in Israel & the occupied Palestinian territory (IOPT)
• 2025-05-21
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  ActionAid Ireland 3 returns Foreign Affairs

  • AV room launch of paper on Irelands role in the fossil fuel industry where we shared the findings and recommendations.
  • Meet to discuss ActionAid work and our priorities.
  • Report shared
• 2025-05-20
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  Uplift Foreign Affairs

  • Emailed TD Catherine Connolly to ask them to raise a PQ to the Minister for Foreign Affairs about the ability for the UN General Assembly to authorise UN peacekeeping missions.
• 2025-04-01
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps Ireland is taking to fulfil its obligations under the Genocide Convention to take action to prevent acts of genocide in Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15514/25]
• 2025-03-25
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the manner in which Irish embassies and consulates around the world are assisting with the dissemination of information related to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme for survivors throughout Ireland's diaspora; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13498/25]
• 2025-03-25
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to detail all efforts by the Irish Embassy in Washington, DC and Irish Consulates across the United States in disseminating information regarding the mother and baby institutions payment scheme for US-based survivors; the extent to which information has been shared with partner organisations in various US cities (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13499/25]
• 2025-03-25
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs given that his Department remains the data holder for passports issued as part of the Ireland-US adoption scheme from the late 1940s through the 1970s, the efforts made by his Department to reach out to and contact families that adopted Irish children as part of the scheme and inform them of the Government's mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13500/25]
• 2025-03-25
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs given that the Department of Foreign Affairs remains the data holder for passports issued as part of the Ireland-US adoption scheme from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, the efforts made by his Department to reach out to and contact US Catholic charities in each diocese where children were adopted, and to seek their assistance in disseminating information about the payment scheme for impacted families in their area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13501/25]
• 2025-03-25
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for updated figures on the number of Irish Passports provided for children travelling out of the State jurisdiction for adoption in a different jurisdiction since 1946; the updated list of countries where these children were travelling to for adoption; the number of children travelling to each country for adoption; the efforts to inform these families of potential entitlements under the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13502/25]
• 2025-03-06
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the Statutory Instruments he envisages being brought forward and signed by his Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10330/25]
• 2025-02-13
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the way in which Ireland is complying with the International Court of Justice’s non-binding opinion on the legal consequences arising from the policies and practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, 19 July 2024; the specific actions taken to comply with the UN General Assembly resolution calling for the illegal occupation of Palestine to be brought to an end within twelve months; the actions taken to address each of the fourteen actions to meet Ireland’s legal obligations in bringing an end to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine before the UN General Assembly of 19 September 2025, in tabular form (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5430/25]
• 2025-02-11
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the basis on which, and by whom, the decision was taken to endorse the non-binding working definition of antisemitism; if that endorsement includes endorsement of the 11 'contemporary examples' of antisemitism by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4513/25]
• 2025-02-11
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the timeline for the passage of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 that incorporates a ban on imports and services from these areas, supported by the advisory opinion on the illegality of Israel's occupation and settlements issued on July 19 2024 by the International Court of Justice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4514/25]
• 2025-02-11
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4248/25]
• 2025-02-05
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 49 of 22 January 2025, to examine the documentation which indicates that the information being sought was in fact furnished on 8 November 2024 by registered and priority postage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2511/25]
• 2025-02-05
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he is taking to support displaced Palestinian persons and released detainees to return to their homes; the supports being offered to those whose homes have been destroyed, given that 463,000 or 92% of housing units in the territory have been destroyed or severely/partially damaged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3079/25]
• 2025-02-05
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for an update on the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the West Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3083/25]
• 2025-02-05
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for an update on the humanitarian situation in Lebanon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3084/25]
• 2025-02-05
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for an update on the humanitarian situation in Sudan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3085/25]
• 2025-01-22
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 95 of 24 October 2024, for an update on the processing of an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1408/25]
• 2025-01-21
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  National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Ireland Foreign Affairs

  • We emailed the 220 public representatives - TDs and Senators - to ask them to sign a statement - "Join UN Rapporteurs to help protect Baha'i Women in Iran."
• 2025-01-20
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  Trócaire 2 returns Foreign Affairs

  • Cross-cutting issues of corporate power, climate justice, humanitarian & ODA
  • Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory
• 2024-11-07
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs with reference to his account to Dáil Éireann on 10 October 2024 concerning reports of illegal transportation of weapons through Irish airspace and his confirmation that the Department of Transport is carrying out an examination to determine whether there may have been a breach of the applicable law, if he agrees that the current situation is extremely urgent in view of sustained Israeli bombing of the civilian population in Gaza, resulting in over 42,000 Palestinians killed and expansion of Israeli aggression against the population of neighbouring Lebanon with a resultant death-toll approaching 3,000; if he is aware of the recent statement the U.N. Human Rights chief that the darkest moment of the conflict in Gaza is unfolding in the north of the territory and that Israel's actions could amount to atrocity crimes; how much longer we must wait for an assurance that Ireland is not complicit in the supply of the means to carry out these acts of genocide; if he will immediately share the results of the examination, or provide a date by which we will receive it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45656/24]
• 2024-11-07
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he is aware of recent unfounded, allegations against the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories; if he agrees that these spurious accusations deliberately misrepresent her criticism of Israeli acts of genocide and her defence of international human rights law; if he totally rejects these allegations; if he reaffirms the significance of the role and mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur in defence of international human rights law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45657/24]
• 2024-11-07
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs with regard to the recent ICJ ruling which indicates that states have an obligation to abstain from entering into economic or trade dealings with illegal Israeli settlements, if he will provide a clear indication of the specific reasons there is now a need to delay the enactment of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 further, in view of the fact that all political parties in Dáil Éireann have publicly expressed support for the Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45658/24]
• 2024-10-24
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 49 of 11 July 2024, the details of his engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs in respect of all dual-use and military export licence applications for goods manufactured in Ireland granted for export to Israel since October 2023; the number of times such applications were refused on foot of engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs or otherwise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43210/24]
• 2024-10-24
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the likely timescale for completion of the processing of an application for an Irish citizenship foreign birth registration, and a replacement foreign birth certificate (details supplied); if there are any particular reasons for the time involved in processing them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43712/24]
• 2024-10-10
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to end the use of all Irish airports by foreign military aircraft; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40621/24]
• 2024-10-10
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps Ireland has taken to comply with the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on 19 July 2024 on Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, which states that member states are under a positive obligation “to abstain from entering into treaty relations with Israel in all cases in which it purports to act on behalf of the Occupied Palestinian Territory or a part thereof on matters concerning the Occupied Palestinian Territory or a part of its territory; to abstain from entering economic or trade dealings with Israel concerning the Occupied Palestinian Territory or parts thereof which may entrench its unlawful presence in the territory”; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40620/24]
• 2024-10-10
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he is taking to bring an end to conflict in Sudan; the assistance provided to civil society organisations in the country in light of the humanitarian crisis; the number of Irish citizens resident in Sudan; the efforts to date and planned for their safe passage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40617/24]
• 2024-10-10
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 15 of 27 June 2024, the status of his engagement at EU level in relation to the February 2024 request seeking an urgent review of whether Israel is complying with its human rights obligations under the EU-Israel Association Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40618/24]
• 2024-10-09
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of times his Department was contacted by the Department of Transport and or the Department of Justice in relation to determining if any foreign policy issues need to be considered in the context of an application for an exemption under the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Orders 1973 and 1989, since October 2023 to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40614/24]
• 2024-10-09
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of permissions under the Air Navigation (Foreign Military Aircraft) Order 1952 sought and granted for military aircraft to overfly or land in the State going to or from the Middle East, either directly or indirectly, by month, since October 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40615/24]
• 2024-10-09
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he had any discussions or engagement with any Israeli counterpart or any person with regard to preventing the passage of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40616/24]
• 2024-09-26
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  Asked Justice

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice the number of times her Department was contacted by the Department of Transport and or the Department of Foreign Affairs in relation to determining if any security issues need to be considered in the context of an application for an exemption under the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Orders 1973 and 1989, since October 2023 to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37938/24]
• 2024-07-09
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland will offer international protection to a hospital in Gaza (details supplied) in order that it may continue to operate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29339/24]
• 2024-06-27
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 118 of 9 May 2024, for a status update on his engagement at EU level to seek a review of whether Israel is complying with its human rights obligations under the EU-Israel Association Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27142/24]
• 2024-06-27
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 87 of 9 May 2024, the details of his engagement to date, both at bilateral level with his Israeli counterpart, and at EU level, with regard to the designation in October 2021, which remains in place, of six Palestinian human rights organisations as terrorist groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27143/24]
• 2024-06-20
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  Asked Justice

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 39 of 23 April 2024, for a status update on the number of people currently in Gaza who have permission to remain in Ireland, or who have a visa to live, study or work in Ireland; the steps being taken by her Department to assist them in exiting Gaza; the details of her Department’s engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs in this regard since October 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26521/24]
• 2024-06-18
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason the NATO flag was displayed at the annual EU Heads of Missions lunch in Ireland, at which the Tánaiste delivered the opening remarks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26259/24]
• 2024-06-11
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 28 May 2024, if he will publish the non-paper and the text of the letter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24834/24]
• 2024-06-11
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the value of frozen Russian assets in Ireland and in Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25559/24]
• 2024-06-11
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of the ‘urgent review’ of the EU-Israel Association Agreement requested jointly by Ireland and Spain on 14 February 2024; the response from the Commission to that ‘urgent review’ request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25560/24]
• 2024-06-11
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs what assessment he has made of the implications for Ireland of the Council decision to use the proceeds from immobilised Russian assets to support Ukraine’s military activities to defend itself and to boost its military capabilities; if he is satisfied that Russian assets immobilised by Ireland will not support or be used for such military activities; if so, how so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25634/24]
• 2024-05-28
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he can confirm Ireland's signature of a letter reported in the Austrian press (details supplied); if he will publish the text of this letter; if the details reported reflect the official policy of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24028/24]
• 2024-05-22
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  Asked Enterprise

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 60 of 18 April 2024, for an update on his Department’s engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs with a view to developing a new business and human rights action plan and implementation body; his plans for independent oversight of the implementation of the new action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23077/24]
• 2024-05-21
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he is aware of, and supports, Ireland's signature of a statement (details supplied); if the position outlined in same is reflective of official policy of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22525/24]
• 2024-05-09
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 7 March 2024, the details of his engagement to date both at bilateral level with his Israeli counterpart, and at EU level, with regard to the designation in October 2021, which remains in place, of six Palestinian human rights organisations as terrorist groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20841/24]
• 2024-05-09
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  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 7 March 2024, the details of his engagement at EU level to seek a review of whether Israel is complying with its human rights obligations under the EU Israel Association Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20840/24]
• 2024-05-08
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 19 of 7 March 2024, the details of Ireland’s financial and in-kind assistance to Ukraine since February 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20855/24]
• 2024-05-08
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  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 7 March 2024, for an update on Ireland’s plans to support South Africa’s case against Israel under the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice; if Ireland’s Declaration of Intervention has been filed to date; if not, when it will be filed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20856/24]
• 2024-05-08
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  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 7 March 2024, the timeline for when Ireland will formally recognise the State of Palestine; the details of his engagement at EU level on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20857/24]
• 2024-04-23
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  Asked Justice

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 35 of 22 February 2024, the number of people currently in Gaza who have permission to remain in Ireland, or who have a visa to live, study or work in Ireland; the steps being taken by her Department to assist them in exiting Gaza; the details of any engagement between her Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs in this regard since October 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17852/24]
• 2024-04-23
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  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 132 of 16 April 2024, to clarify the steps taken to ensure that US Air Force C17 Globemaster aircraft number 08-8021 was not carrying weapons or munitions when it travelled through Shannon Airport on 10 April 2024 and landed in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 11 April 2024, and was further tracked flying over Israel, Jordan and Egypt on 13 and 15 April 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17984/24]
• 2024-04-18
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  Asked Enterprise

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 37 of 8 February 2024, for an update on his Department’s engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs with a view to developing a new business and human rights action plan and implementation body; the number of meetings held to date by the stakeholder forum; the dates of same; the terms of reference of the stakeholder forum; the expected timeline for the new national plan on business and human rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16851/24]
• 2024-04-16
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  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs what steps, if any, were taken to ensure that US Air Force C17 Globemaster aircraft number 08-8201 was not carrying weapons or munitions when it travelled through Shannon Airport on 10 April 2024, coming from Mac Dill US Air Force base in Tampa, Florida, and which then travelled on to Tel Aviv, Israel on 11 April 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16760/24]
• 2024-03-07
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 61 of 24 January 2024, the details of Ireland's financial and in-kind assistance to Ukraine since February 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11186/24]
• 2024-03-07
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  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for a status update on Ireland's plans to support South Africa's case against Israel under the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11057/24]
• 2024-03-07
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 30 of 25 January 2024, his plans to formally recognise the state of Palestine, as per the commitment in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11056/24]
• 2024-03-07
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  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the details of his engagement at EU level following the recent letter signed by the Taoiseach and the Spanish Prime Minister for a review of whether Israel is complying with its human rights obligations under the EU/Israel Association Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11187/24]
• 2024-03-07
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  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the details of his engagement to date both at bilateral level with his Israeli counterpart, and at EU level, with regard to the designation in October 2021 of six Palestinian human rights organisations as terrorist groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11188/24]
• 2024-02-22
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  Asked Justice

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice the number of people currently in Gaza who have permission to remain in Ireland, or who have a visa to live, study or work in Ireland; the steps being taken by her Department to assist them in exiting Gaza; the details of any engagement between her Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs in this regard since October 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8203/24]
• 2024-02-21
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  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 350 of 25 October 2022, for an update on the engagement he has had with his Algerian, European and UN counterparts in relation to the kidnapping on 6 January 2009 in Algiers of the sibling of an Irish citizen (details supplied) for which the UNHCR established Algeria’s responsibility; the circumstances of their abduction; the reason for their detention without trial; the steps that he has taken to secure their safe return; the engagement he has had with their family in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8160/24]
• 2024-02-20
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs given his statement of 26 January 2024 when he recalled the commitment by Dáil Éireann to "strongly consider intervention" in the South Africa case at the ICJ, and stated that he had asked his officials to prepare legal advice for his consideration on an "urgent basis"; if he will brief Dáil Éireann on the detailed particulars of the legal advice he has sought; if he will provide that legal advice to Dáil Éireann; if he will outline a deadline for the State's decision regarding an intervention in the ICJ case, in the context of the slaughter of 30,000 Palestinians by Israel, the almost total destruction of civilian infrastructure and, now, the spread of famine and disease among a weak and vulnerable population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7448/24]
• 2024-02-08
  PQ
  Asked Enterprise

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 45 of 23 November 2023, for an update on his Department’s engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs with a view to developing a new business and human rights action plan and implementation body; the number of meetings held to-date by the stakeholder forum; the dates of same; the terms of reference of the stakeholder forum; the expected timeline for the new national plan on business and human rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5478/24]
• 2024-02-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason a US military aircraft (details supplied) was permitted to land and refuel at Shannon airport on 1 February 2024; to clarify the steps that were taken to ensure that this aircraft was not involved in US military operations in support of the Israeli attacks in Gaza; to clarify what steps were taken to check what this aircraft was delivering to Ramstein air base; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5992/24]
• 2024-02-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason a US military aircraft (details supplied) was permitted to land and refuel at Shannon airport on 1 February 2024; to clarify the steps that were taken to ensure that this aircraft was not involved in US military operations in support of the Israeli attacks in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5993/24]
• 2024-01-25
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to formally recognise the state of Palestine, as per the commitment in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3332/24]
• 2024-01-25
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans for Ireland to support South Africa's case against Israel under the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3331/24]
• 2024-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to advocate at EU level for the suspension of trade with Israel, in light of its ongoing actions in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3403/24]
• 2024-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for an update on his engagement at EU level with a view to securing a ceasefire in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3404/24]
• 2024-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 30 November 2023, the details of Ireland’s financial and in-kind assistance to Ukraine since February 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3405/24]
• 2024-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 7 November 2023, the steps he has taken to ensure the safe passage of Irish citizens from the occupied Palestinian territories, including those family members and dependents who do not hold Irish passports; the steps he has taken to ensure safe passage for family members and dependents of Irish citizens from the occupied Palestinian territories, in cases where the Irish citizen is not physically with them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3406/24]
• 2024-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the details of Ireland’s financial and in-kind assistance to Palestine since October 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3407/24]
• 2024-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government sought internal legal advice from the Office of the Attorney General or otherwise, in regard to Israel's actions in Gaza and its obligations under the Genocide Convention at any time since 7 October 2023. [1886/24]
• 2023-12-13
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of Irish citizens currently in Gaza; the steps being taken by his Department to assist them in exiting Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55518/23]
• 2023-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs given that the International Criminal Court is engaged in an active investigation of the situation in Palestine, including an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity, and given Ireland's political and financial support for the Court's work, if there are any plans to communicate advisories to Irish citizens and residents who may be serving or volunteering in the Israel Defence Forces on the potential legal consequences and individual criminal liability that could arise under both Irish and international criminal law from their conduct in the course of such service or volunteering; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53774/23]
• 2023-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps taken to ensure that a US navy aircraft (details supplied) was not transporting US soldiers or military materials for delivery to Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53820/23]
• 2023-11-30
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his most recent visit to Israel/Palestine; if he made a request to visit Gaza; if any such request was granted or refused; the reasons given for any refusal; the reason he did not visit Gaza on this trip; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52856/23]
• 2023-11-30
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to call for a comprehensive international arms embargo to be placed on Israel; the details of any engagement he has had at EU and UN level in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50113/23]
• 2023-11-30
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to formally recognise the state of Palestine, as per the commitment in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50114/23]
• 2023-11-30
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the details of Ireland's financial and in-kind assistance to Ukraine since February 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52857/23]
• 2023-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs when it was agreed to permit Israeli security personnel to be located on the premises of Dublin Airport in order to screen passengers intending to travel on El Al flights from Dublin to Tel Aviv; if similar arrangements are in place for any other sovereign nations’ security or intelligence personnel in addition to those of the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52012/23]
• 2023-11-23
  PQ
  Asked Enterprise

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 14 of 12 October 2023, the status update on his Department’s engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs with a view to developing a new business and human rights action plan and implementation body; the status of the business and human rights stakeholder forum, and if it has been re-convened to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51389/23]
• 2023-11-23
  PQ
  Asked Enterprise

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of any engagement he has had with the Minister for Foreign Affairs regarding the human rights considerations that may arise from the issuing of dual-use export licences in respect of end-users in Israel, particularly in light of Israel’s actions in Gaza since 7 October 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51392/23]
• 2023-11-23
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he agrees that Ireland has a duty under the UN Genocide Convention to prevent genocide; if any assessment has been carried out as to whether there is a serious risk that genocide is being committed by Israel in Gaza; if so, the outcomes as a result of such an assessment; what action the Government now proposes to take in view of the very serious and worsening situation in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51732/23]
• 2023-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the purpose for which a military plane (details supplied) flew across Ireland en route to Gander from Nottingham; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51197/23]
• 2023-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of Irish-Israeli dual citizens currently in Israel; the number currently in the occupied Palestinian territories, specifically the number in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem; of those, the number who have their habitual residence there; the number in the Gaza Strip; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51319/23]
• 2023-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if, given the indications of wide-spread violations of international humanitarian law being committed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, and in light of the IDF's widespread commission of war crimes related to Israel's settlement regime in the occupied West Bank, and illegally annexed East Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan Heights, Ireland has communicated advisories to Irish citizens and residents of Ireland who may be serving or volunteering in the IDF on the potential legal consequences and individual criminal liability that would arise under Irish criminal law (Geneva Conventions Act 1962 and International Criminal Court Act 2006) for any of their acts or omissions in the course of their service or volunteering; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51321/23]
• 2023-11-15
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs what engagement he has had at EU level with a view to securing a ceasefire in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50121/23]
• 2023-11-09
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if a British RAF surveillance aircraft (details supplied) was authorised to fly along the west coasts of Donegal and Mayo within Irish territorial waters on 3 November; if so, when and why approval was given for this flight, given that it is likely that this aircraft was on an intelligence gathering mission, in contravention of Irish Government prohibition on such flights by foreign military aircraft; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49127/23]
• 2023-11-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if, in view of the devastating consequences of the ongoing conflict in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, he will instruct Ireland's representative at the United Nations to initiate a uniting for peace initiative in accordance with Resolution 377 of 3 February 1950 to call for an emergency session of the General Assembly to discuss a permanent and sustainable ceasefire and the lifting of the blockade on Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49003/23]
• 2023-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he has taken to ensure the safe passage of Irish citizens from the occupied Palestinian territories, including those family members and dependants who do not hold Irish passports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48778/23]
• 2023-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his intentions for Ireland to act as a broker of resolution to the causes of the conflict in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48779/23]
• 2023-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the prospect of violence spreading into a regional conflict in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48780/23]
• 2023-10-12
  PQ
  Asked Enterprise

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 29 June 2023, for a status update on his Department's engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs with a view to developing a new business and human rights action plan and implementation body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44203/23]
• 2023-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to his recent visit to Israel/Palestine, if he can confirm several reports that the Israeli Government refused his request to visit Palestinian towns in Area C of the West Bank; if he was given a reason for this refusal, and if he accepts the explanation given; if he agrees that the areas in question are not part of Israel but illegally occupied; if this rejection by Israel significantly reduced his capacity to see and experience the effects of the illegal occupation in areas where schools have recently been destroyed and residents have been forced to flee because of settler attacks; if he regards this denial of access as a further rebuff to the international community by Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44083/23]
• 2023-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to his recent visit to Israel/Palestine, if he planned or attempted to visit Ein Samiya in Area C of the West Bank, where, according to reports from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, schools were destroyed in August and Palestinian residents were forced to flee following attacks from illegal settlers; if he had any engagement with Israeli authorities with regard to a visit to this area, and what the result of these discussions was; if he feels that the policy of the Israeli authorities with regard to the role of the international community has changed since the new Israeli Government was formed; what his plans are now to address the deteriorating situation in the occupied Palestinian territory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44084/23]
• 2023-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on a report (details supplied) by the UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42927/23]
• 2023-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs what representations he has made to the Government of the United States of America to close the detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42928/23]
• 2023-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs what engagement he has had with his EU and UN counterparts on the issue of the closure of the detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42929/23]
• 2023-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps being taken to support the humanitarian resettlement of those arbitrarily detained at Guantánamo Bay, in particular the 16 cleared detainees who remain at Guantánamo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42930/23]
• 2023-09-28
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has received the report on the consultative forum on international security policy; the expected timeline for the publication of the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41731/23]
• 2023-09-28
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the details of any engagement he has had with his US counterpart with regard to the provision by the US of cluster bombs to Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41732/23]
• 2023-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the timeline for the formal recognition by Ireland of the state of Palestine; the details of any analysis underway by his Department in preparation for this step; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41736/23]
• 2023-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of Bills prepared by his Department in the 33rd Dáil to date; the number and title of those Bills that included a Regulatory Impact Assessment; the title of the RIAs published by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41590/23]
• 2023-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the details of any engagement he has had with his counterparts in the United States with regard to the provision of cluster munitions by the US to Ukraine (details supplied), particularly in light of the ongoing use of Shannon Airport by the US military and Ireland's obligations under the Convention on Cluster Munitions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37176/23]
• 2023-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs when the foreign birth registration of a person (details supplied) will be processed. [38740/23]
• 2023-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the full final cost of the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy, in tabular form, to include all costs, and associated costs, including the cost of policing and security, the use of locations, and the cost of Department staff involvement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39215/23]
• 2023-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to clarify if a policy change took place from the use of the term UN multilateralism to rules-based international order; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39216/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if a parliamentary delegation to an event (details supplied) was an official delegation with the involvement and support of his Department, a delegation of which he had prior knowledge were attending; by whom the visit was paid; if it was an official trip, under what budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35926/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of occasions on which he contacted the Iranian Ambassador subsequent to the death of a person (details supplied) in relation to expressing his views, and that of the Government, in relation to the subsequent handling of the protest movement; the dates on which the contact was made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35927/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if two documents presented at an event (details supplied) are official Irish Government documents and-or if they were presented to or voted on by either Dáil Éireann or Seanad Éireann at any stage before being presented, in light of the fact that both purport to represent the majority views of both Houses, and-or if he has been presented with either by the delegation in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35928/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will outline, pursuant to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the safeguards and procedures in place to prevent the transfer of cluster munitions through Shannon Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37171/23]
• 2023-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to detail the precise programme, heading, subheading, vote and year of Estimate under which costs for the expenditure on the conference, Global Island: Ireland's Foreign Policy for a Changing World, which was held in Dublin Castle on 12-14 January 2015, is accounted for and-or reflected in; the breakdown, in tabular form, of the expenditure under the relevant subheading in the relevant year; the figure for the total cost of the conference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34411/23]
• 2023-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for a breakdown, in tabular form, of the training and development and incidental expenses incurred by his Department under Vote 28 in each of the years 2013 to 2022. [34412/23]
• 2023-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for a breakdown, in tabular form, of the training and development and incidental expenses incurred by his Department under Vote 27 in each of the years 2013 to 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34413/23]
• 2023-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of the training and development and incidental expenses estimated to be incurred by his Department under Vote 28 in 2023. [34414/23]
• 2023-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of the training and development and incidental expenses estimated to be incurred by his Department under Vote 27 in 2023. [34415/23]
• 2023-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department referred the proposed funding for the Consultative Forum on International Security under the "training and development and incidental expenses" category within Vote 28, to the Department of Finance to determine whether the funding amounted to a new service or not, per the public financial procedure guidelines (PFP); if such a referral did occur, the outcome of same; if no referral occurred, the reasons for not referring the question to the Department of Finance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34518/23]
• 2023-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 37 of 21 June 2023, to clarify the meaning of the statement that 'no new peacekeeping missions have been approved by the UN Security Council since 2014', in view of the fact that five new UN-mandated peace operations were established in 2022, which together deployed approximately 26,000 personnel (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32190/23]
• 2023-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of peacekeeping missions approved by the UN Security Council in each year since 1960; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32191/23]
• 2023-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for a breakdown of the training and development and incidental expenses incurred by his Department in the years ending 31 December 2013, 31 December 2014, and 31 December 2015, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32462/23]
• 2023-06-29
  PQ
  Asked Enterprise

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 11 May 2023, the status of his Department’s engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs with a view to developing a new action plan on business and human rights; the status of plans to reconvene the Business and Human Rights Stakeholder Forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31544/23]
• 2023-06-29
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for a breakdown, in tabular form, of the training and development and incidental expenses incurred by his Department in the year ending 31 December 2019, 31 December 2020, 31 December 2021 and 31 December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31773/23]
• 2023-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of peacekeeping missions proposed at the UN since 2014; the number vetoed at the Security Council; the country that exercised the veto in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29896/23]
• 2023-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to furnish a definition of the rules-based international order referred to in the programme for an event hosted by his Department (details supplied); to outline the difference between same and the provisions of the UN Charter and international law, if any; to detail the reason Ireland is characterised as being reliant on the rules-based international order and committed to upholding it, rather than to the UN Charter and international law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29897/23]
• 2023-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to outline the officially adopted view of his Department in regard to the NATO intervention in Kosovo in 1999; if that view holds that it was in line with the fundamental underpinnings of European security within the framework of the OSCE, namely, sovereign equality, refraining from threat or the use of force, inviolability of frontiers, peaceful settlements of disputes, fulfilment in good faith of obligations under international law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29898/23]
• 2023-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to provide details on the number of times the United States has exercised its veto at the UN Security Council to veto resolutions in regard to Israel-Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29899/23]
• 2023-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if representatives from Austria, Cyprus or Malta were invited to address the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy; if not, to detail the reason why; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29901/23]
• 2023-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 134 and 137 of 13 June 2023, in which he indicated that "the contribution by the Department of Foreign Affairs will be made from within existing resources in Vote 28", to provide specific detail on the precise programme and heading within vote 28 in which the expenditure for Forum is accounted for and/or reflected in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29744/23]
• 2023-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Defence

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to his statement on 13 June 2023 to Parliamentary Question Nos. 134 and 137 of 13 June 2023, namely, that "Costs related to the Forum [Consultative Forum on International Security Policy) be split on an equal basis between the Department of Foreign Affairs and his Department”, to detail the precise programme and heading within vote 36 in which expenditure for the Forum is accounted for and/or reflected in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29743/23]
• 2023-06-15
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 26 of 27 April 2023, if he will provide an update on his bilateral engagement to date in 2023 with his Israeli counterpart with regard to the ongoing demolition and seizure of Palestinian property in the occupied Palestinian territories, as well as the escalating violence by Israel on Palestinians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28816/23]
• 2023-06-15
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 21 of 27 April 2023, to provide an update on Ireland’s efforts at EU and UN level to stop the war in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28817/23]
• 2023-06-13
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs in relation to the proposed ‘Consultative Forum on International Security Policy’, the estimated cost of the forum; if he will provide a breakdown of these costs, in tabular form; if the forum is included in the supplementary/revised estimates for Vote 28; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27588/23]
• 2023-05-31
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health his views on the recently reported visit by Ireland’s National Ambulance Service to Israel to study the operations of Magen David Adom, Israel’s national Emergency Medical Service established by the Israeli Government; his views on whether this visit was appropriate in view of the many recent reports of a dramatic increase in attacks by illegal Israeli settlers in the Palestinian Territory on treatment centres and health workers, and the daily obstruction of the movement of ambulances and paramedics with the compliance of the Israeli military, and the unwillingness of the Israeli authorities to uphold their obligations as the occupying power, as reported by the UN General Assembly last October; if this visit was approved by him beforehand; if the Minister for Foreign Affairs was consulted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26587/23]
• 2023-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs with regard to the UN database of companies operating in Israel’s illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian territory, if he is of the opinion that the database is at present achieving the objectives outlined in the Resolution adopted by the U.N. Human Rights Council in 2016; the initiatives that the Government has taken since 2020 to assist the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in making sure that the database has been regularly updated and is fit for purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25450/23]
• 2023-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the additional measures he intends to take to ensure that no products from illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine are imported into Ireland, irrespective of labelling, in order to guarantee that Ireland is not contributing to gross human rights abuses of Palestinians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25451/23]
• 2023-05-23
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of Irish citizens who remain in Sudan; the steps he is taking to ensure their safe return; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24965/23]
• 2023-05-23
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the assessment that has been undertaken by his Department of the efficacy of the United Nations arms embargo on Sudan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24966/23]
• 2023-05-11
  PQ
  Asked Enterprise

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 147 of 23 February 2023, the status of his Department’s engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs with a view to developing a new action plan on business and human rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22149/23]
• 2023-05-03
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason for the presence of the NATO vessel (details supplied) in Bantry Bay from 11 to 13 April 2023; the details of any engagement he or his Department had with NATO representatives with regard to the presence of the ship in Bantry Bay, and any permissions granted by his Department in this regard; if the ship was carrying out military exercises in Bantry Bay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20586/23]
• 2023-04-27
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 126 of 21 March 2023, if he will provide an update on Ireland's efforts at EU and UN levels to stop the war in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19871/23]
• 2023-04-27
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 21 March 2023, if he will provide an update on his bilateral engagement to-date in 2023 with his Israeli counterpart with regard to the ongoing demolition and seizure of Palestinian property in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, as well as the recent escalation in violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19870/23]
• 2023-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of Irish citizens living in illegal settlements built by Israel on Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem; the number of Irish passports issued or renewed for Irish citizens living in these settlements in the past ten years, and the procedure for the issue of Irish passports in this instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16436/23]
• 2023-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the context of the commitment to set up an annual high-level political dialogue between the EU and the Palestinian Authority, what plans are in place to advance and implement this new strategy; the goals, targets and expected outcomes and how this new approach is expected to influence the routine discriminatory practices towards the Palestinian people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16437/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide details of his bilateral engagement to-date in 2023 with his Israeli counterpart with regard to the ongoing demolition and seizure of Palestinian property in the Occupied Palestinian Territories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13635/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 31 January 2023, if he will provide an update on Ireland's efforts at EU and UN levels to stop the war in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13636/23]
• 2023-02-23
  PQ
  Asked Enterprise

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 123 of 13 December 2022, if he will provide a status update on his Department's engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs with a view to developing a new action plan on business and human rights and to advancing effective action in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9166/23]
• 2023-02-23
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide details of his priority discussions with his European Union counterparts at the Foreign Affairs Council in January 2023 on the situation of the occupied Palestine territory, as referenced in a recent Parliamentary Question reply; if there were any outcomes as a result of these discussions; the further steps he intends to take in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9405/23]
• 2023-02-23
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs in the context of his recent reply concerning the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, how he proposes that the international community should practically support the Palestinian Authority in its recourse to legal and political responses to the occupation; the role he envisages for civil society in this regard; the action that has been taken by Ireland's European Union partners to impede the further development of illegal settlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9406/23]
• 2023-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if a report (details supplied) has been drawn to his attention; his response to the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4435/23]
• 2023-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide details of Ireland’s efforts at EU and UN levels to stop the war in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4436/23]
• 2023-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the engagement that he has had with his counterparts in Israel with regard to the imminent expulsion and forced transfer of over 1,000 Palestinian residents of the Masafer Yatta area of the West Bank, in view of the announcement on 2 January 2023 by the Israeli Government that the transfers would commence immediately; the details of any engagement between his Departmental officials on the ground in Israel and Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta since the beginning of January; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1649/23]
• 2023-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the action he intends to take at European Union and United Nations level in response to the stated intention of the new Israeli Government to expand a regime of Jewish control over all of Palestine including those lands which are supposed to constitute a future Palestinian state, given the views that were recently expressed by the new Israeli prime minister (details supplied); if he agrees that such intensification of Israel’s colonisation of Palestinian land and its dominant-settler mindset means that new political initiatives are urgently required in pursuit of a peaceful settlement; if he agrees with the concerns expressed that ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population and the expansion of a regime that suppresses non-Jews will now most likely be promoted through further state terrorism and state-sponsored violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2022/23]
• 2022-12-14
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has raised the treatment of political prisoners in Bahrain at the UN Security Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62523/22]
• 2022-12-14
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide an update on his Department’s response in relation to the ongoing detention and deprivation of adequate medical treatment of a person (details supplied) in Bahrain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62524/22]
• 2022-12-13
  PQ
  Asked Enterprise

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 27 October 2022, the status of his Department’s engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs regarding the development of a second national action plan on business and human rights; the status of his Department’s work on the development of policy on business and human rights, as per recommendation 10 of the 2021 Review of implementation of National Plan on Business and Human Rights 2017 – 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62037/22]
• 2022-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the details of any engagement that he has had with his counterparts in other EU countries regarding the recent draft resolution (details supplied), which Ireland voted in support of, by the UN Special Political and Decolonization Committee requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands since 1967; if Ireland will support the resolution when it comes before the UN General Assembly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58129/22]
• 2022-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 58 of 6 October 2022, if he will report on his Department's role in supporting the dialogue between the Misak community in Colombia and a company (details supplied) over land use in Colombia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57646/22]
• 2022-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to raise Iran's ongoing brutality and oppression against protestors at the next meeting of the UN Security Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57645/22]
• 2022-11-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to reports that the United Nations Commission of Inquiry into rights' abuses by Israel and the Palestinians has now decided that it will investigate apartheid charges against Israel which was described as a manifestation of the occupation; if he condemns the fact that Israel has refused to cooperate with the Commission and has not granted it entry into Israel or access to Palestinian-controlled areas in the West Bank and Gaza; his views on the fact that the UN Human Rights Council and other reputable organisations (details supplied) have issued detailed reports in the past two years which describe a regime of apartheid established by Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55118/22]
• 2022-10-27
  PQ
  Asked Enterprise

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 14 September 2022, the status of his Department’s engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs regarding the development of a second national action plan on business and human rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53790/22]
• 2022-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the details of the engagement that he has had at UN Security Council-level with regard to the ongoing crackdown on peaceful protest in Iran; his plans to raise this matter at the next meeting of the Security Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53359/22]
• 2022-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the engagement that he has had with his Algerian, European and UN counterparts in relation to the kidnapping on 6 January 2009 in Algiers of the sibling of an Irish citizen (details supplied) for which the UNHCR established Algeria's responsibility; the circumstances of their abduction; the reason for their detention without trial; the steps that he has taken to secure their safe return; the engagement that he has had with their family in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53366/22]
• 2022-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he is concerned in relation to the continuous silencing of critical voices regarding the Palestinian struggle for justice, in the name of combating antisemitism; his views on whether these efforts infringe on freedom of expression and the right to be informed; his views on whether antisemitism, which does exist, is being used to try to silence Palestinian political consciousness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51243/22]
• 2022-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the details of his engagement in 2022 with his counterparts in the European Union with regard to the decision to reconvene the European Union-Israel Association Council; if he has called for the imposition of certain conditions, as outlined in a letter by a group of Irish civil society organisations (details supplied), before any reconvening can occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49069/22]
• 2022-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 109 of 23 June 2022, if he will provide an update on his Department's engagement with representatives of a company (details supplied) and the Misak community in Colombia with regard to the treatment of human rights defenders who raise concerns over the negative impacts of the company's use of land in Colombia; the details of any engagement that he or his Department has had with the United Nations Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council with regard to this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49068/22]
• 2022-09-14
  PQ
  Asked Enterprise

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 26 19 May 2022, if he will provide an update on his Department’s engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs regarding the development of a second National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45186/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs to total number of United States military aircraft landings at Shannon Airport in each of the years from 1998 to 2021 and date in 2022, in tabular form. [42792/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the total number of United States military aircraft overflights that were granted in each of the years from 1998 to 2021 and date in 2022, in tabular form. [42793/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of persons who have travelled from Ireland to fight in Ukraine since the Russian invasion on 24 February 2020; the number who have died; the number who remain in active combat there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42849/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on a statement by the European Union Vice President High Representative for Foreign Affairs (details supplied); his views on whether it is a European Union competence to change the State's foreign policy, particularly regarding the declaration of war; his views on whether the statement reflects an agreement to which the Government has given its assent in the Council of Europe; the action that he will take at European Union level to address the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42850/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reasons given by the Sudanese authorities for the refusal to give the Air Corps PC-12 (details supplied) which is currently stranded in Entebbe airport in Uganda permission to depart, given that it had received permission to depart Entebbe airport for the Democratic Republic of the Congo just a few days earlier. [43224/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason that Ireland recently contributed €407,328 to the renovation of NATO office spaces in view of the fact that NATO is an extremely well-funded organisation and that there should be no need for non-members to contribute to the upkeep of its offices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43235/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason that Ireland is incurring administrative costs of between €66,000 and €107,000 a year for rent and phone bills to pay for a staff presence at NATO headquarters given that Ireland is not a NATO member and that any support work needed by the Irish ambassador to Belgium as part of their duties as Ireland's official representative to NATO could be carried out at the Irish embassy in Brussels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43236/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will issue a public statement calling on Israel to rescind the terrorism designation made without evidence against Palestinian human rights organisations and demand that Israel desists from any further action which would threaten the work of these organisations, including raiding their offices, arresting their staff or preventing them going about their legitimate work, or interdicting finances given Ireland’s condemnation of Israel’s night-time raid on Palestinian human rights organisations on 18 August 2022 and Ireland’s support for a vibrant and independent Palestinian civil society, and taking into account that Israel is likely planning further raids on these organisations as they return to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44156/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the provisions that were included in his Department’s statement of strategy and high-level strategic goals to ensure that Ireland would take a more proactive approach to bring about a consensus at European Union level towards a negotiated and lasting peace process in the Middle East in the context of the programme for Government entitled Our Shared Future; the outcomes and performance indicators with regard to the promotion and protection of human rights that were identified in these plans; if the implementation of these goals has been reviewed; the result of such reviews; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44157/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of United Nations peacekeeping mission Operation MONUSCO; Ireland’s involvement in the mission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44194/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of permissions granted for overflights by foreign military aircraft in Irish airspace granted in each of the years 1998 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44195/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress that has been made to date on increasing the budget for overseas development aid to 0.7% of GNI, in line with the Programme for Government; if his Department is on-track to meet this target by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44196/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Defence

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Defence his views on a statement by the European Union Vice President High Representative for Foreign Affairs (details supplied); his views on whether it is a European Union competence to change the State's foreign policy, particularly regarding the declaration of war; his views on whether the statement reflects an agreement to which the Government has given its assent in the Council of Europe; the action that he will take at European Union level to address the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42851/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he anticipates that a settlement would have to include an arrangement for the return of Palestinian refugees to the property they themselves or their forebears left behind or were forced to leave in the context of his Department’s commitment to recognise a State of Palestine as part of a lasting settlement; his views on whether the principle that both first generation refugees and their descendants have a right to return to their property and that this is firmly entrenched in international law; his further views on whether the apartheid framework operated by Israel in denying Palestinian refugees their right of return while at the same time giving those of Jewish descent an automatic right to immigrate to Israel and gain Israeli citizenship is further evidence of the ethnic cleansing taking place and another major obstacle to a future settlement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39675/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of permits granted for military aircraft to land at Shannon Airport and to pass through Irish airspace in each month of 2021 and to date in 2022; the countries that made the requests; the number of such permits that were refused in each month of 2021 and to date in 2022; the countries that made the requests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41549/22]
• 2022-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he is willing to support and advance the reconvening of the United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid with a view to bringing an end to Israel’s system of oppression, domination and racial supremacy in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as outlined in recent reports by human rights organisations; if he will review all of Ireland’s cooperation activities with Israel to ensure that these do not contribute to maintaining the present system of apartheid; his views that the purpose of Israel’s actions of discrimination and dispossession is to ensure the dominance of one racial or national group over another; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35890/22]
• 2022-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been brought to a report (details supplied) which details the impact of the operations of an Irish-headquartered company on indigenous communities and their lands in Colombia; the engagement he or his Departmental representatives have had with representatives of this company on foot of the issues raised in the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33070/22]
• 2022-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the engagement he has had at bilateral level with his counterparts in Israel with regard to halting the demolition of Palestinian homes in the Masafer Yatta area of the West Bank; his plans to increase Irish aid funding to Palestinian human rights NGOs, particularly in view of the increasing legal constraints faced by such organisations following the designation by Israel in October 2021 of six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33071/22]
• 2022-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question 402 of 15 February 2022, if his officials have now reviewed the detail of the report published on 1 February 2022 (details supplied); his response to the report; the Government’s response to the report; his specific response to each of the eight recommendations directed at other governments and regional actors; his views on the conclusions of the report that Israeli officials commit the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, including ethnic cleansing; if he plans to bring any of the recommendations of the report of Government for approval in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32152/22]
• 2022-06-01
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the Zinjiang police files authenticated and published in the media (details supplied) which document a system of internment, forced labour, forced sterilisation and cultural eradication camps; if he intends to designate the actions by the Chinese state against the Uyghur Muslim community as genocide; the representations that he has made to the Chinese government and ambassador in this regard; the discussions that he has had at European Union and United Nations level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28360/22]
• 2022-06-01
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the case of two Bahraini nationals (details supplied) who are currently on death row in Saudi Arabia, following a trial that has been highlighted as grossly unfair by several human rights organisations; the engagement that he has had with his counterparts in Saudi Arabia to call for the commutation of these death sentences and a prompt, impartial and independent investigation into the defendants’ claims of torture and ill-treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28365/22]
• 2022-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Enterprise

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement his Department has had in 2021 and to date in 2022 with the Department of Foreign Affairs with regard to the second National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights; when he expects the plan to be completed and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25367/22]
• 2022-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the genuine human solidarity and empathy shown by Ireland and the EU to victims of the war in Ukraine in contrast with the continued provision of immunity for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians; his views that international law should apply equally to the invasion of a sovereign country as well as to the colonisation and persecution of another; his further view that the taking of territory is wrong in both instances; his views that the role of the ICC in investigating war crimes be equally endorsed in the case of Israeli repression of Palestinians as in the case of the Russian invasion of Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24614/22]
• 2022-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he is in favour, given the significant extra resources and political support made available to the International Criminal Court, ICC, for its Ukraine investigation, including from countries not previously supportive of the court’s mandate and activities, of extra resources and support also being made available to the ICC for its Israel-Palestine investigation, which is currently operating with limited resources and in an environment of strong political opposition; the steps he will take to ensure the latter investigation will be allocated equal resources and given every opportunity to complete its investigation successfully; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24615/22]
• 2022-05-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 119 of 24 March 2022, if he will report on his engagement with Russia, either bilaterally or through Ireland’s membership of the United Nations Security Council, to bring about an end to the war in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22872/22]
• 2022-05-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of his Department’s consideration of the recommendations and conclusions from a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22871/22]
• 2022-05-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 79 of 23 March 2022, the status of any bilateral engagement he has had with his counterparts in Saudi Arabia with a view to bringing about an end to the war in Yemen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22943/22]
• 2022-03-29
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on whether Ireland can genuinely be a credible and effective actor and have international influence by continuing to raise human rights issues with Israel in the context of the treatment of Palestinians by the Israeli Government through measures (details supplied); his further views on whether it is time to be genuinely proactive; the new initiatives that he will undertake; if he will reconsider adopting the legislation to make it an offence to import or sell goods or services originating in an occupied territory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15930/22]
• 2022-03-29
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the opinion of a person (details supplied) that Israel has sunk to such political and moral depths that it is now an apartheid regime and that it is time for the international community to recognise this reality as well; his views on their opinion that the solution would be for Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories and the establishment a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel; the steps he intends to take to build an alliance of countries within the European Union to expedite work towards such a solution; if he will take similar urgent action in this instance as has been taken in response to Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine which is also a gross violation of international law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15931/22]
• 2022-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department has concluded its examination of a report (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15466/22]
• 2022-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the engagement he has had with his counterparts in Russia, either bilaterally or through Ireland’s membership of the United Nations Security Council since February 2022, to bring about an end to the war in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15467/22]
• 2022-03-23
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the details of the bilateral engagement he has had with his counterparts in Saudi Arabia with regard to bringing about an end to the ongoing war in Yemen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15496/22]
• 2022-03-01
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on reports that the administration in the United States of America is freeing $3.5 billion of more than $9 billion in frozen Afghan government assets, which belong to the Afghan people, to be diverted to a fund for victims of 9/11 at a time that the United Nations says that one million Afghan children could die from starvation or cold this winter with 24 million Afghans facing acute hunger and 8.7 million Afghans facing famine; the steps he has taken to satisfy himself that none of that amount includes aid given by Ireland to support humanitarian agencies operating in Afghanistan; the representations he has made to his United States, European Union, United Nations and other international counterparts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10498/22]
• 2022-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on whether that as long as Israel continues to illegally seize Palestinian land to build settlements, evict Palestinian families from their homes and intentionally, institutionally and systematically discriminate against Palestinians as has been detailed in numerous recent independent reports, there will be justified criticism of Israel and that such condemnation only seeks to defend and advance the cause of justice for Palestinians; his further views on whether this criticism cannot be described or defined as anti-Semitic in nature; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7748/22]
• 2022-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to a recent international report by an organisation (details supplied); his views on the conclusions in the report that Israeli officials commit the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, including ethnic cleansing; if he plans to bring any of the recommendations of this report to Government for approval in the near future; if there are recommendations in the report that he clearly rejects; if he plans to raise the contents of the report at European Union level with a view to tackling Israel's system of oppression and domination in Palestine; his further views on whether the International Criminal Court should consider the crime of apartheid in its current investigation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7749/22]
• 2022-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of plans to officially recognise the state of Palestine pursuant to the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3914/22]
• 2022-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to raise the treatment of human rights defenders and the restriction of civil society space in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates at the United Nations Human Rights Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3915/22]
• 2022-01-26
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount donated to date by Irish Aid to the COVAX facility to enable the procurement of Covid-19 vaccines for distribution to low-and middle-income countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3814/22]
• 2022-01-26
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the engagement he has had with his counterparts in Bahrain with regard to the ongoing detention of a person (details supplied) whose case has been highlighted in a United Nations statement; the engagement has he had with the Bahraini government with regard to the detention of human rights defenders in the country; his plans to call for the unconditional release of all human rights defenders currently detained in Bahrain in addition to the lifting of all conditions and restrictions on human rights defenders already released under the Bahraini alternative punishments law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3960/22]
• 2022-01-26
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the engagement he has had with his counterparts in United Arab Emirates with regard to the ongoing detention of a person (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to a report on the matter; the details of any visits that were planned or carried out by representatives of Ireland to the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3961/22]
• 2022-01-19
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the situation of a person (details supplied); if he has made representations regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1081/22]
• 2021-12-14
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if there has been an audit or review carried out or commissioned by his Department into service user interaction with the Passport Office; the analysis that has been undertaken by his Department into the efficacy of communications between the passport service and the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61997/21]
• 2021-12-02
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to a decision by the Belgian Government to intensify its scrutiny of all goods originating in Israel in order to ensure that all products from illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory are excluded from preferential trade tariffs under the EU-Israel Association Agreement; if he will consult with his Belgian colleague and other like-minded European Union states in the context of the recently registered European Citizen’s Initiative to develop an European Union legal proposal to ban trade with these settlements; if he considers such leadership from Ireland appropriate in view of the strong support of the Houses of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59650/21]
• 2021-11-18
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the engagement he has had with his counterparts at European Union level regarding the continuation of the EU-Israel Association Agreement particularly in view of Israel’s ongoing treatment of the Palestinian people and its human rights obligations under Article 2 of the Association Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56538/21]
• 2021-11-17
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the engagement has he had with his European Union counterparts with regard to the forcible eviction of Palestinians from the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood and dispossession of their properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56540/21]
• 2021-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 218 of 12 October 2021 which indicates that Ireland ensures that any bilateral agreements with Israel do not apply to territories occupied by Israel since 1967, the details of the procedures, systems and mechanisms in place to ensure that this obligation is being fully implemented without fail; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52842/21]
• 2021-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 218 of 12 October 2021, the details of all efforts being made by the Government to ensure compliance with EU and international law as well as the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 including details of established structures and procedures within his Department and at interdepartmental level concerning the distinction between the state of Israel and the territories occupied by Israel since 1967; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52843/21]
• 2021-10-13
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will make representations to the Passport Office to expedite the processing of the passport application of a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that the family have been waiting for six months for the passport application to be processed due to an error on the part of the Passport Office which has caused a significant delay. [49988/21]
• 2021-10-12
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number and value all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication in 2020 and to date in 2021; and the date, value and purpose of each negotiated procedure contract in tabular form. [49730/21]
• 2021-10-05
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 250 of 23 September 2021 and his endorsement of the statement by EU Commissioner Lenarčič which underlined that attacks on education constitute violations of international humanitarian law, his views on whether Israel will continue to perpetrate these violations with impunity unless direct action is taken and that the time is now to institute such actions by the international community, by Ireland and the EU in particular; the form these actions might take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48127/21]
• 2021-10-05
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on whether the persistent expansion of illegal Israeli settlements is in keeping with the principles of the UN Charter in the context of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and in particular Israel’s persistent expansion of illegal settlements; his further views on whether the Israeli Government has habitually failed to respect human rights and human dignity in its dealings with Palestinians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48128/21]
• 2021-10-05
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department by indicating support for the Jewish character of the Israeli state agrees with the treatment by Israel of Palestinian communities in its attempts to accomplish Jewish supremacy; his views on whether these attempts to perpetuate the supremacy of Jews over Palestinians amount to apartheid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48129/21]
• 2021-09-30
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the engagement he has had since August 2021 with the Irish Embassy in Abu Dhabi with regard to the facilitation of visa applications from Afghan persons seeking to leave Afghanistan and in particular with regard to relaxing the usual evidentiary burden in relation to the provision of original documentation such as birth certificates and passports in support of these applications in view of the current risks associated with obtaining or transporting original personal documentation in Afghanistan; if the Irish Embassy in Abu Dhabi is currently accepting copies of these documents in support of visa applications by persons from Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47170/21]
• 2021-09-30
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the engagement he has had at EU level with regard to the expiration of the current EU Israel Action Plan in January 2022; if he has called for any extension of the Action Plan to be contingent on a review of the commitments upon which the EU-Israel Action Plan is based, namely human rights, rule of law and fundamental freedoms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47171/21]
• 2021-09-30
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the engagement he has had with the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Youth and the Minister for Justice with regard to expanding the Irish Refugee Protection Programme to facilitate an increased number of asylum seekers from Afghanistan to be granted refugee status in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47197/21]
• 2021-09-30
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the engagement he has had at UN Security Council level with regard to ensuring that at-risk Afghan nationals who wish to leave Afghanistan will be allowed safe passage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47198/21]
• 2021-09-30
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to make an official visit to Israel later in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47199/21]
• 2021-09-30
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to expand the Irish Refugee Protection Programme in order to accept an increased number of refugees from Afghanistan; the engagement he has had with the Minister for Foreign Affairs in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47276/21]
• 2021-09-23
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on whether the attacks on education by Israeli forces in the Occupied Palestinian Territory are a deliberate attempt to make the teaching and learning environment unsafe for Palestinian children; his further views on whether the educational process has been severely hampered and disrupted as a result of these attacks and that the dignity and security of Palestinian students and teaching staff have been repeatedly and deliberately violated through the systematic targeting and legal discrimination of the occupying power; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45845/21]
• 2021-09-15
  VOTE
  Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence

  • ✗ voted against the motion motion passed · 92–59
• 2021-07-15
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the measures he plans to take at EU level to assist in bringing an end to Israel’s illegal settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem; the actions Ireland will take as a member of the UN Security Council to facilitate the fulfilment of the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people in view of his support for the agreed position of Dáil Éireann that Israel’s settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem amounts to unlawful de facto annexation and taking into account in this context the commitment in the programme for Government to give leadership within the EU and to work to ensure that all parties respect their obligations under international law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38919/21]
• 2021-07-15
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the additional prerequisites that will be required before Ireland can give recognition to the state of Palestine given the pledge in the Programme for Government to honour Ireland’s commitment to recognise the state of Palestine believing that in doing so Ireland will progress efforts to reach a two-state solution and in view of the unanimous view of Dáil Éireann that Israel’s settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem amounts to unlawful de facto annexation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38920/21]
• 2021-07-15
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps Ireland will now take to advance the Middle East peace process, to build consensus at EU level and to take a more proactive approach in supporting a negotiated two-state solution and lasting peace taking into account the recent unanimous motion of Dáil Éireann in accepting that Israel’s settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem amounts to unlawful de facto annexation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38921/21]
• 2021-07-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the engagement he has had with his counterparts in relation to the use of State-sanctioned violence against peaceful pro-democracy protesters in Eswatini; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36940/21]
• 2021-06-24
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the engagement he has had to date with the new coalition government in Israel and in particular with regard to Israel’s ongoing de facto annexation of Palestinian land; his plans to highlight a recent report (details supplied) with the new Israeli Government which states that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians amounts to the crimes against humanity, of apartheid and persecution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33903/21]
• 2021-06-24
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 101 of 11 May 2021, the status of the implementation of the recommendations of the March 2021 Report by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines to Developing Countries; the status of his engagement with the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment with regard to the recommendation to ease intellectual property rights in relation to the vaccines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33904/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he plans to consult with EU partners concerning the implementation of the differentiation principle between Israel within its internationally recognised pre-1967 borders and the illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories; if he is satisfied that Ireland and the EU are completely fulfilling their legal obligations based on non-recognition of Israeli sovereignty over these territories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28965/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will support the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in efforts to ensure that the UN database of all business enterprises involved in activities relating to Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory is regularly maintained and updated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28966/21]
• 2021-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 857 of 21 April 2021, if the pre-2015 data can now be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29021/21]
• 2021-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No 521 of 28 April 2021, the discussions he has had with European and international partners in relation to the detention of a person (details supplied) by the National Investigation Agency of India for alleged Maoist links; his plans to call on the Indian Government to safeguard the health and well-being of the person and to call for the release of same; the discussions he has had with the Indian Government in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27130/21]
• 2021-05-11
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to raise the findings of a report (details supplied) which stated that the ongoing treatment of Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories amounts to apartheid at the next meeting of the UN Security Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24212/21]
• 2021-05-11
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of the implementation of the recommendations in the March 2021 Report by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines to Developing Countries; the engagement he has had to date with the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment with regard to the recommendation of the easing of intellectual property rights with regard to the Covid-19 vaccines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24213/21]
• 2021-04-21
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland will support a full investigation by the ICC prosecutor of individuals suspected of war crimes committed in the occupied territories in the context of the decision of the ICC that it has jurisdiction in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967 namely Gaza and the West Bank including East Jerusalem; if he will support the role of the ICC in the EU and on the UN Security Council in this regard; if he will oppose attempts to defer an investigation or prosecution under Article 16 of the Rome Statute in view of the continual and increasing illegal transfer of Israeli civilians into the West Bank with the approval of the Israeli Government contrary to international law; if he condemns any attempts to impose sanctions on ICC staff or other personnel involved in or assisting the investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18278/21]
• 2021-04-21
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if an aircraft (details supplied) was approved to land at Shannon Airport; if it was carrying weapons or munitions; if US military personnel were transferred from this US Air Force Learjet to another aircraft which was at Shannon Airport during these times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19627/21]
• 2021-04-21
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to reports of the imminent eviction of up to 16 Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20817/21]
• 2021-04-21
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has studied the recent report by the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs which documents the striking increase in violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank; his views on whether this is part of a pattern primarily designed to take over land and to intimidate and terrorise Palestinians; his further views on whether it is creating an atmosphere of impunity and as the military are usually present it amounts to a discriminatory two-tier approach to military protection and policing in the West Bank other than condemning these activities; the actions he plans to take in defence of international law at EU and international level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20816/21]
• 2021-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding the operation of the Passport Office during Covid-19; the length of time persons are expected to wait with all their personal documentation before their application is processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13957/21]
• 2021-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the arrest and detention of five young children by the Israeli Defence Forces on 10 March 2021 in the Masafer Yatta region near Hebron; his views on the way in which the arrest and detention of children in military courts and prisons accord with the International Rights of the Child; his views on reports that such breaches by the Israeli Defence Forces are a regular occurrence; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that children of similar age in illegal settlements are dealt with under civil law; if he condemns such practices; if he will raise this issue with the appropriate authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14747/21]
• 2021-03-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the procedure in place for persons who require a new passport that is not a renewal to receive same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13060/21]
• 2021-03-04
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to call for the establishment of a UN commission of inquiry into the actions of China with regard to the Uighur population in Xinjiang in view of Ireland’s current role on the UN Security Council; if he has raised the plight of the Uighurs in China to date in his role on the Security Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12216/21]
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of permits granted for military aircraft to land at Shannon Airport and to pass through Irish airspace in November and December 2020 and January 2021; the number of permits refused for military aircraft to land at Shannon Airport and to pass through Irish airspace in each month; the countries the requests were made by; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11166/21]
• 2021-02-18
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on whether the 1993 Oslo Accords did not result in devolved authority to the Palestinians for public health in view of the emphasis he placed on respect for international law and agreed international parameters in his recent statement to the UN Security Council on the Middle East, including the Palestinian question; his further views on whether Israel is the occupying power which exercises full control over the lives of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories; his further views on whether Israel therefore has a responsibility under international law, in particular, the fourth Geneva Convention, and a moral obligation to provide the Covid-19 vaccine to Palestinians; his further views on whether Ireland has a responsibility to put pressure on Israel to abide by these obligations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9358/21]
• 2021-02-17
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the circumstances concerning an aircraft (details supplied) that arrived at Shannon Airport on 8 February 2021; the number of passengers and crew members who were travelling on the aircraft; the local hotels in which the passengers and crew were accommodated overnight; if Covid-19 tests were carried out in respect of these passengers and crew before they were allowed to enter Shannon Airport and to enter Ireland; the checks that were carried out to ascertain if weapons or munitions were being carried on the aircraft; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8304/21]
• 2021-02-11
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the end goal of the commitment in Ireland's civilian CSDP national implementation plan to develop relationship and support training provided by the European Security and Defence College and to develop a more structured relationship with the college, bearing in mind the national policy of neutrality of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7480/21]
• 2021-02-11
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason the Department of Defence, as per Ireland's national implementation plan for civilian CSDP, will be consulted on national or multinational structures and facilities that will help support the strengthening of civilian CSDP; if the plan to involve the Department of Defence in civilian CSDP is part of the broader EU strategy to alter the scope of civilian CSDP to include a strong military dimension; if there are risks for Irish neutrality in this approach; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7481/21]
• 2021-02-11
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason Ireland is engaging in supporting the civilian CSDP compact goal of fostering synergies and complementarity between the civilian and military dimensions of the CSDP through a commitment to liaise with the Department of Defence and the Defence Forces to explore options in this regard, as per the national implementation plan for civilian CSDP, in view of Ireland's long-standing policy of neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7482/21]
• 2021-02-11
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of deployed civilian CSDP experts who are retired members of the Defence Forces; the number who are retired members of An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7483/21]
• 2021-02-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 285 of 10 December 2020, the agreements with respect to visas that exist between the two countries; the matters covered by these agreements; the contents of the agreements; when they came into effect; the way in which the inapplicability to illegal settlements and territories occupied by Israel in 1967 is ensured in practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7050/21]
• 2021-02-04
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland is implementing incentivisation programmes in view of the fact that the Joint Action Plan for Implementing the Civilian CSDP Compact recommends that member states incentivise eligible public servants and their employers to consider participation in civilian CSDP missions; if so, the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6045/21]
• 2021-02-04
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland has seconded persons from the private sector to civilian CSDP missions; if so, if the cost of this secondment is covered by the State or by the seconded expert's employer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6046/21]
• 2021-02-04
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide a copy of Ireland's national implementation plan for the civilian CSDP compact; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6047/21]
• 2021-01-13
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 285 of 10 December 2020, if all bilateral agreements between Ireland and Israel apply only to those areas within Israel’s pre-1967 borders; if these bilateral agreements specifically differentiated the settlements at inception or have been amended or modified following EU decisions; the procedures and inspections in place to ensure that individuals residing in Israeli settlements cannot profit in any way from the provisions of such bilateral agreements; the structures or practices in place to ensure that companies established in these illegal settlements, all economic activities being carried out there and individuals living elsewhere but earning income from these settlements cannot profit from the provisions of these agreements in particular the 1995 double taxation treaty between Ireland and Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44808/20]
• 2020-12-15
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 403 of 10 November 2020, if US military aircraft never carry arms, ammunition or explosives, are never engaged in intelligence gathering or never form part of military exercises or operations when travelling through Irish airspace or landing at an Irish airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43368/20]
• 2020-12-15
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 406 of 10 November 2020, if the same conditions are applied to the granting of permits for overflights by US military aircraft and military aircraft from all other countries; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43369/20]
• 2020-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department has existing bilateral agreements or memorandums of understanding with the State of Israel; if such agreements are in preparation; if his Department has been consulted or made aware of such agreements by other Departments; if the illegal settlements, which are illegal under international law, in the Israeli Occupied Territories have been or will be excluded from such agreements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42569/20]
• 2020-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of permits granted for military aircraft to land at Shannon Airport and to pass through Irish airspace to date in 2020; the number of permits refused for military aircraft to land at Shannon Airport and to pass through Irish airspace to date in 2020; the countries the requests were made by; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40229/20]
• 2020-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the representations he has made to the Egyptian authorities and-or his European counterparts on the arrest and arbitrary detention of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40324/20]
• 2020-11-26
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to raise the ongoing use of Shannon Airport by the US military with US President-elect Biden, particularly in view of the fact that from January to October 2020, 65,965 US military personnel transited Shannon Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38480/20]
• 2020-11-26
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will use Ireland’s upcoming membership of the UN Security Council to highlight the increase in recent months in demolitions of Palestinian structures in the West Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38479/20]
• 2020-11-11
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps taken by his Department to ensure no further demolitions of homes or schools in Masafer Yatta in the West Bank which are funded by Irish Aid and the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35504/20]
• 2020-11-11
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has raised the issue of the demolitions of homes and schools in Masafer Yatta in the West Bank with the Israeli ambassador to Ireland and-or with his EU counterparts; if he considers that Ireland should be compensated for the funding provided by Irish Aid for these demolished structures in order to use this to provide support to the families that have been made homeless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35505/20]
• 2020-11-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No.158 of 15 September 2020, the date on which it was decided to suspend the contribution by Ireland to international election observation missions of the OSCE; the person who made the decision; if his attention has been drawn to details of the current OSCE election observation missions in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine that include 177 volunteer long-term election observers from 17 countries, including extensive contributions from the UK and other EU member states; if he plans to make contact with the Department of Health to discuss when Ireland can recommence contributing to these and future OSCE election observation missions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34887/20]
• 2020-11-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of permits granted for military aircraft to land at Shannon Airport; the number granted to fly through Irish airspace in each of the years 2002 to 2019; the breakdown by country in each case in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35234/20]
• 2020-10-15
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of members on the election observation roster; the steps taken to establish the number of roster members able and willing to volunteer for overseas election observation missions in view of the Covid-19 pandemic; if he will make temporary additions to the roster by the appointment of experienced observers in order to ensure Ireland is in a position to make a meaningful contribution to international election observation missions as they arise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30840/20]
• 2020-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the details of engagements he has had with the Minister for Justice on finding long-term solutions to support persons affected by the fire in the Moria refugee camp in Greece; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28458/20]
• 2020-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will use the upcoming role of Ireland on the UN Security Council to highlight the ongoing human rights violations being perpetrated on ethnic Uighurs in China, in particular with his Chinese counterpart on the Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28459/20]
• 2020-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the cost to his Department to date of all fines paid by Ireland for non-transposition of EU directives into Irish law; the breakdown, by directive, of the lump sum cost and the daily cost of each fine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28612/20]
• 2020-09-29
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the support being provided and or offered to assist with the fallout following the fire at Moria refugee camp particularly in view of Covid-19 concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26613/20]
• 2020-09-29
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the nature of discussions his Department has had with Greek authorities and other EU partners on finding long-term solutions to support persons in need of international protection affected by the fire in the Moria refugee camp in Greece; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26614/20]
• 2020-09-29
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the representations he made to the Iranian authorities in advance of the execution of a person (details supplied); the assessment that has been made of the impact of their execution on the human rights situation in Iran in particular on the right to a fair trial; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26688/20]
• 2020-09-29
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the representations he has made to the Government of Iran in relation to the unlawful detention, torture and execution of prisoners in the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26689/20]
• 2020-09-29
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the discussions he has had with Spanish and EU authorities to secure the release of elected public representatives from Catalan held in arbitrary detention according to the UN Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27101/20]
• 2020-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 385 and 386 of 28 July 2020, the scheme or regulatory structure under which the US military aircraft are conducted through Irish airspace en route to and upon departure from Shannon airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21242/20]
• 2020-07-28
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the treatment of Baha'i citizens and members of other religious minorities by the Iranian authorities; the assessment made of reports that members of the Baha'i minority in Iran are being prevented from obtaining identity cards; the steps he is taking in relation to the matter at an international level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18542/20]
• 2020-07-28
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of each foreign military air force that used an ARES area in Irish airspace in each of the years 2010 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the number of times in each year that each air force made use of an Irish ARES area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19084/20]
• 2020-07-28
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of each instance in which Irish airspace was reserved for the use of foreign military aircraft through flexible use of airspace in each of the years 2010 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the foreign military involved in each instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19085/20]
• 2020-07-14
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the legal analysis on the revised international legally binding instrument to regulate in international human rights law the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises that has been conducted by a group of EU countries including Ireland; when this analysis will be publicly available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15238/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount spent on purchasing new properties for additional embassies and consulates over the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11430/20]
• 2020-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of permits granted for military aircraft to land at Shannon Airport and to pass through Irish airspace between 1 January 2020 and 30 April 2020 inclusive; the countries the requests were made by; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8045/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 4 of 5 March 2020, if such permission would be granted if a similar request was received from the Russian or Chinese air force (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4607/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason a German Navy aircraft (details supplied) was at Baldonnel Aerodrome on 20 February 2020; if it was in connection with the large NATO exercise Defender 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4608/20]
• 2020-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to his Finnish counterpart since the last EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. [3238/20]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if each embassy is fully wheelchair accessible; if not, the embassies that are not fully wheelchair accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51656/19]
• 2019-11-19
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he last met the Irish Consul to Sydney; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47304/19]
• 2019-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to his Colombian counterpart on the assertion by the special jurisdiction for peace in Colombia that between 500 and 600 persons could be buried in unmarked graves in the zone of the Hidroituango construction project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43243/19]
• 2019-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the estimated cost in 2020 of recruiting three additional full-time architects for his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40921/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 52 of 29 January 2019, the assessment he has made of the extent to which arms supplied by Saudi Arabia are reaching terrorist groups in Yemen; the assessment made of the recent peace talks between the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Yemen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37460/19]
• 2019-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when Ireland will officially recognise the state of Palestine in view of the recent statements of the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, that he will permanently seize additional territory in the West Bank; the reason for the delay in doing so in view of the unanimous passing of a motion by Dáil Éireann on 10 December 2014 requesting the Government to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37459/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of reviews carried out by his Department pursuant to Standing Order 164A of Dáil Éireann; the pieces of legislation to which each review refers; the number and title of each piece of legislation in respect of which a review pursuant to Standing Order 164A has not been undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31631/19]
• 2019-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of all entities in which he or his Department hold shares; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30185/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to refurbish the embassy in Australia; when such works will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24094/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made representations to the Government of Colombia regarding the 20 killings of social activists and community leaders to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13535/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made representations to the Government of Colombia regarding the killing by right-wing paramilitary groups of a person (details supplied) in the town of Puerto Asis in Putumayo, southern Colombia, on 3 March 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13536/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will join the Norwegian and Cuban Governments, guarantor countries to the Colombian peace process, in urging Colombia to approve the statutory law that would give the Special Jurisdiction for Peace the provisions it needs to guarantee truth, justice, reparation and non-repetition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13650/19]
• 2019-03-26
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make representations to the Colombian Government regarding the importance of consolidating the Special Jurisdiction for Peace into law in the way in which it was agreed in the peace agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13651/19]
• 2019-03-12
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to update the Passports Act 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11729/19]
• 2019-02-27
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on reports asserting that US special forces and mercenaries engaged by the UAE have conducted targeted killings of religious and political leaders in Yemen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9736/19]
• 2019-02-27
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the basis on which the decision was taken to recognise a self-appointed person as President of Venezuela; his views on the statement from the UN rapporteur that sanctions on the country are illegal and could amount to crimes against humanity under international law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9735/19]
• 2019-01-29
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the assessment he has made of the extent to which arms supplied by Saudi Arabia are reaching terrorist groups in Yemen; the steps he is taking to assist the humanitarian response in Yemen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4134/19]
• 2019-01-29
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions that have taken place regarding the withdrawal of foreign military powers from the conflict in Syria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4135/19]
• 2019-01-23
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the decision of an organisation (details supplied) to close its international department; the process for Irish Aid to work with the organisation in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3225/19]
• 2018-12-18
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he recently spoke to the Vice President of the United States of America, Mr. Mike Pence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53273/18]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the assessment of the impact of sanctions on Syria that has been undertaken; the findings of such an assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50254/18]
• 2018-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the level of reported ethnic and linguistic tensions in Cameroon in the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46580/18]
• 2018-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the political and security situation in Cameroon; the representations that have been made to the Cameroon Government on these matters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46581/18]
• 2018-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the level of support being provided to refugees in Cameroon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46582/18]
• 2018-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the assessment that has been made of the circumstances surrounding the recent kidnapping of approximately 80 persons, including children, from a school in the town of Bamenda, Cameroon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46583/18]
• 2018-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the assessment that has been made of the circumstances surrounding the death of a person (details supplied) in the town of Bamenda, Cameroon on 30 October 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46584/18]
• 2018-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the representations made to the Tanzanian Government on the level of the threat to the LGBT community and supporters of opposition parties there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46738/18]
• 2018-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the procedure to be followed regarding section 14(6) of the Passports Act 2008 that allows a person who has an interest in the welfare of a child, who is an Irish citizen, to apply for a passport for that child without the consent of a guardian; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9049/18]
• 2018-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on US Vice President Mike Pence's recent meeting with American soldiers en route to Kuwait at Shannon Airport; the way in which such a meeting aligns with Irish neutrality and the Government's commitment to neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4274/18]
• 2018-01-25
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when Ireland will officially recognise the state of Palestine; the reason for the delay in doing so in view of the unanimous passing of a motion by Dáil Éireann on 10 December 2014 requesting the Government to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3651/18]
• 2018-01-25
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contact which has been made with the UN regarding the attacks on 9 January 2018 by Israeli missiles on Syrian army positions near Damascus (details supplied); if he has requested the UN Security Council to investigate these breaches of international peace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3365/18]
• 2018-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on Israel's decision to blacklist an organisation (details supplied) and to block the group's membership from entering the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3652/18]
• 2017-12-13
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts being made to encourage the international community to take action against the Government of Myanmar in view of the recent escalation of violence in Rakhine State, Myanmar; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53376/17]
• 2017-11-29
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has communicated a position to the European Commission regarding the practical measures that might be taken to ensure the commitment to human rights equivalence enshrined in the Good Friday Agreement is adequately protected in the first phase of Brexit negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50855/17]
• 2017-10-19
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to reopen the Irish consulate general office in Cardiff; the estimated cost of reopening the office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44522/17]
• 2017-10-18
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has communicated the Government's view of the position which should be reflected in the mandate being prepared and is due to be given to the European Commission for trade negotiations with UK; if the Government emphasised the importance of ongoing equivalence in equality, employment and environmental standards within such negotiations; if he has expressed a view for or against the inclusion of investor courts in this trade mandate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44261/17]
• 2017-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number and grade of all staff in his Department; the number and grade of vacancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37779/17]
• 2017-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 4 May 2017, the measures taken to assist the person in expediting their appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30339/17]
• 2017-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 50 of 30 May 2017, the procedures his Department uses to grant permission for military aircraft to land in Irish territory or to fly through Irish airspace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26642/17]
• 2017-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention was drawn to the planned arrival of a plane (details supplied) before it landed; the way in which assurances can be given that there were no weapons on board and that it was not involved in military operations; the details of the plane's activities here and in Irish airspace; the destination of the plane after leaving Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27364/17]
• 2017-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention was drawn to the planned arrival of two planes (details supplied) before they landed; the way in which assurances can be given that there were no weapons on board and that they were not involved in military operations; the planes' activities here and in Irish airspace; the destination of the planes after leaving Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27365/17]
• 2017-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the procedures in place to ensure that US military aircraft landing at Shannon Airport comply with conditions related to permission to land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25948/17]
• 2017-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will clarify the indications he has received from President el-Sisi of Egypt that he will exercise his presidential powers to return a person (details supplied) to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25607/17]
• 2017-05-04
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps being taken by his Department in the case of a person (details supplied); the specific efforts that have been taken to date to assist this person; the steps that are currently being taken to expedite an appeal, particularly in view of grave medical concerns, both physical and psychological; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21148/17]
• 2017-04-12
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures he has taken to ensure the release of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18302/17]
• 2017-04-06
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 283 of 28 March 2017, and in relation to a recent arrest (details supplied), if he has satisfied himself that there was appropriate handling of and investigation into an alleged sexual assault; if there was diplomatic or political interference in the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17421/17]
• 2017-03-28
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of the circumstances surrounding the docking of a US warship (details supplied) at Cobh Harbour on 21 March 2017; the reason it was docked; the purpose of its journey; the permissions that were granted and by whom for the docking of the warship and for military and navy personnel to patrol the quay; if the vessel has been searched to ensure there are no nuclear weapons on board; the steps that have been taken to ensure no military exercises were or will be carried out in Irish waters; the consultation that took place with An Garda Síochána prior to the docking of the vessel; if this is the same warship that fired the first tomahawk cruise missiles into Baghdad almost 14 years ago on 20 March 2003 resulting in the deaths of hundreds of Iraqi citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15342/17]
• 2017-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position of the Government on the formal recognition of the state of Palestine in view of the recent statement by the President of the USA in support of a one-state solution and in view of 138 UN member states affirming Palestinian statehood; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8817/17]
• 2017-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he raised the matter of the executive order banning citizens from seven countries from entering the USA during his recent visit there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8816/17]
• 2016-12-16
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the circumstances surrounding the docking of a submarine at Horgan's Quay in Cork at the beginning of November, observed during the first weekend of November 2016; the country of origin; the reason for which it docked; the purpose of its journey; if it was part of a NATO operation; if there were armed guards on board and-or on the quay; if permission was granted for this docking in our waters; if so, by whom; the attached conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40495/16]