Joan Collins

Independents 4 Change · Dublin South-Central

Activity on Foreign Affairs — 28 events (1 lobbying · 26 questions · 1 votes) full profile →

• 2025-01-21
  LOBBY
  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."
• 2023-02-21
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide an update on concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8498/23]
• 2021-11-18
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will notify the Israeli government of Ireland’s objection and opposition to the forcible transfer and major dispossession of Palestinian property in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem (details supplied). [56446/21]
• 2021-10-12
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the details of any meetings which he or his officials have had with representatives of the pharmaceutical industry or pharmaceutical companies since 1 May 2020, at which the WHO C-TAP initiative was discussed; the names and positions of those present; the content of the discussion relating to C-TAP and any actions taken; and the documents prepared by him or Departmental officials on foot of the discussion. [49766/21]
• 2021-10-12
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the details of any meetings which he or officials of his Department have had with representatives of the pharmaceutical industry or of pharmaceutical companies since 1 October 2021, at which the Covid-19 waiver proposed at the WTO Council on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights were discussed; the names and positions of those present; the actions taken; and the documents prepared by him or Departmental officials on foot of such discussion. [49771/21]
• 2021-09-30
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the escalations developing in the Pacific between the US, the UK, Australia and China; and if he will seek an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the increased militarisation in the area. [47328/21]
• 2021-09-15
  VOTE
  Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence

  • ✗ voted against the motion motion passed · 92–59
• 2021-04-29
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will support the dire need of PPE including oxygen from Europe with immediate effect to the health service in India; and if emergency oxygen will be sent to India as soon as possible. [22469/21]
• 2021-04-21
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland will lead a joint statement in the UN Human Rights Council for the upcoming 80th meeting of the Standing Committee (details supplied). [18314/21]
• 2021-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the countries and companies that have joined up with the Covid-19 Technology Access Pool to date. [15761/21]
• 2021-02-18
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 125 of 11 February 2021, the date that each embassy applied for permission to operate polling stations for electoral events in their country of origin; the date permission was granted in each case in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9255/21]
• 2021-02-17
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he has taken in relation to the case of a person (details supplied) detained by the authorities in China. [8968/21]
• 2021-02-11
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if it is necessary for his Department to agree to foreign embassies operating polling stations in Dublin for electoral events in their countries of origin; if so, the names of embassies that in the past 12 months have applied for permission to operate polling stations; the dates on which they applied; if permission was granted; the date on which each was granted permission; if special conditions were attached to the permission given potential Covid-19 risks involved to the wider community; if citizens of these countries are permitted to travel to Dublin in order to vote; if An Garda Síochána is placed on notice of such permission being granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7667/21]
• 2021-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will address the ongoing serious human rights violations and lack of democratic institutions in Bahrain; and if the Government demanded the release of the leader of the political opposition in Bahrain (details supplied). [4227/21]
• 2020-09-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps his Department can take to facilitate a person (details supplied) in distress; and if legal or diplomatic assistance will be provided through an embassy. [23094/20]
• 2020-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised concerns with the Indian Embassy regarding the killing of over 40 persons in New Delhi in February 2020; and his plans to raise this issue with his European counterparts. [4523/20]
• 2019-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff by grade and location involved full-time in the operation of the election observation roster; his plans to increase the number of staff and to have all staff located in the same location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30125/19]
• 2019-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a review of the election observation roster is being undertaken; if so, if this review will include consideration of the provision of reasonable accommodation to observers with disabilities during the application process and subsequent phases; if persons committed and interested in election observations matters will be invited to participate in the review of the roster; when the review will be completed; if steps to form a new roster will be put into place shortly after the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30126/19]
• 2019-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the annual Irish Aid budget and the budget for the election observation roster in each of the past six years in tabular form; the reason the election observation budget has not been increased in line with the overall Irish Aid budget; his plans to increase the budget to allow an increase to the size of the roster and ensure that more observers are placed on election observation missions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30127/19]
• 2019-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the names of the members appointed to the 2018 election observation roster; the number of members who passed and failed security clearance, respectively; if those who failed have been allowed to undertake missions abroad; if his attention has been drawn to concerns that a number of the old 2013 roster members who did not go on elections missions in the previous six years of the old roster have now been reappointed to the new roster; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30128/19]
• 2019-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he conducted research in 2018 into the way in which other countries selected and recruited election observers, in particular the deployment of former politicians; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that half do not have former politicians on their selection panels and that those that do treat them like all other observers; the rationale for the policy to reserve 5% of the roster places for former politicians; the reason this policy was not detailed in the call to proposals that issued in 2018; if the place on the roster becomes vacant in the event that a former politician on the roster is re-elected to public office; the way in which vacancies on the roster are filled; if vacancies on the roster have been filled to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30129/19]
• 2018-05-01
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address a matter (details supplied) raised in correspondence. [18641/18]
• 2018-03-28
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of St. Patrick's Day celebrations in the USA which were in receipt of State funding or support; the amount that was spent; and his views on whether it was distasteful in view of the USA's involvement in the ongoing atrocities in Syria. [14397/18]
• 2018-03-20
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent of State agency efforts to promote trade with Russia and Iran; and his views on whether all contact with Russia should be ceased due to its ongoing atrocities in Ghouta. [12265/18]
• 2018-03-20
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Moscow or Tehran which are in receipt of State funding or support; and his views on whether it would be distasteful in view of those two countries' involvement in the ongoing atrocities in Ghouta. [12266/18]
• 2017-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out the number of special advisers employed, including the new special adviser recently recruited from a company (details supplied), by him; the roles these advisers perform; and the amount they are paid. [50256/17]
• 2017-09-21
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will condemn the violence and ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Myanmar; the action he plans to take to hold the Government of Myanmar to account and stop this humanitarian crisis; and his views on a call for the freedom of Dublin city to be stripped from Aung San Suu Kyi. [39696/17]
• 2015-11-10
  PQ
  Asked Foreign

  Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of remarks made (details supplied) regarding the recouping of portions of the costs associated with the recent visit of members of the British royal family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39466/15]