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Malcolm Byrne Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
51. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of engagements that he has had with his Ukrainian counterpart since coming to office; the nature of those exchanges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46149/25]
Malcolm Byrne Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
52. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline Ireland's trading relationship with Canada; and the extent to which the CETA trade agreement is improving that relationship. [46150/25]
Malcolm Byrne Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
53. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline Ireland's trading relationship with Japan; and the moves that are being undertaken to improve that relationship. [46151/25]
Malcolm Byrne Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
54. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline Ireland's trading relationship with Poland; and the moves that are being undertaken to improve that relationship. [46152/25]
Malcolm Byrne Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
55. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline Ireland's trading relationship with Taiwan; and the moves that are being undertaken to improve that relationship. [46153/25]
Malcolm Byrne Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
56. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline Ireland's relationship with Iceland; if there are any plans to establish an embassy in Reykjavik; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46154/25]
Malcolm Byrne Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
57. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline his perspective of the impact on trade between Ireland and the UK since the UK formally left the European Union on 31 January, 2020; to provide relevant charts for each of the years 2020 to 2024 inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46155/25]
Duncan Smith Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
58. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding Ireland’s participation in the Hague Group; the details discussed at the meetings of the group over 15 and 16 July in Colombia; to provide details of Ireland’s contribution to the discussion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46258/25]
Matt Carthy Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
59. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish citizens murdered by Israel in the course of their genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza; the number of Irish citizens that remain in Gaza; the number of whom remain that have sought the assistance of his Department to leave Gaza; the number who have been killed while unable to leave; and if he will make…
Erin McGreehan Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
60. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46346/25]
Conor Sheehan Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
61. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide the details and addresses of all properties in the ownership of the Department that are absolved from paying commercial rates to the relevant local authority of the location that the property is in; to provide a similar list of properties for agencies or bodies under its remit that are also absolved from commercial rates…
Mattie McGrath Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
62. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his Departments position in cases in which a passport application is not correctly logged within a Garda station or where a Garda station does not answer due to being a part-time station; if he will provide assurances that applicants will not have their applications delayed due to such errors or the station being closed; and if he…
Ruth Coppinger Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
63. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress on the ratification of the UN High Seas Treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46602/25]
Eoin Ó Broin Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
64. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he will raise with his German counterpart the vicious assault perpetrated by the German police on an Irish citizen protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46606/25]
Paul Donnelly Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
65. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of male and female persons that applied for the post of personal assistant at the Irish Consulate General based in Miami. [46717/25]
Paul Donnelly Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
66. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he plans to expand Ireland house model in Singapore. [46718/25]
Paul Donnelly Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
67. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the dates in 2024 and to-date in 2025 where the Irish Ambassador based in Bangkok has visited Pattaya area of Thailand; and the purpose of each visit, in tabular form. [46719/25]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
68. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to respond to concerns (details supplied) that his Department’s diaspora survey did not include questions related to housing. [46742/25]
Cian O'Callaghan Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
69. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government will condemn the attacks by the rapid support forces in Sudan which has left thousands dead and hundreds more still missing; the action he will take on an international level to assist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46757/25]
Eoin Ó Broin Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
70. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position Ireland will take in relation to the European Commission's recommendation for a council decision regarding the opening of negotiations on the amendment of the 2018 agreement in the form of an exchange of letters between the EU and Morocco; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46767/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
71. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to safeguard Common Travel Area provisions and Northern Ireland peace-process commitments given recent UK policy shifts including refugee application suspension and ECHR departure advocacy. [46825/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
72. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he accepts that the €3 billion compensation package referenced in discussions on the Mercosur agreement amounts to a redundancy scheme for Irish farmers rather than a structural safeguard; and if he will categorically reject the agreement on that basis. [46951/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
73. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the assessment that has been made of the precedent the Mercosur trade agreement would set for future EU trade deals, particularly in respect of trading away European agricultural standards in exchange for geopolitical concessions. [46952/25]
Sinéad Gibney Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
74. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to commit to publicly supporting the Gender Apartheid Campaign and the explicit inclusion of the gender apartheid as a crime against humanity in the new UN treaty which was currently under consideration (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47041/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
75. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent infringement by Burkina Faso on LGBTQ rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47068/25]