337. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts made by the State to raise the introduction of a new law in Israel, which mandates the death penalty for Palestinians who have been tried in military court and found guilty of committing a fatal attack, with the Council of the European Union and the UN Human Rights Committee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2684…
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73. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the measures taken by her Department to highlight and combat the rise of Christian persecution; if her attention has been drawn to her Department, through Irish Aid, consistently allocated funding to states and territories who engage in the most extreme forms of Christian persecution; her views on whether this is appropriat…
87. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action Ireland is taking in relation to the 1,100 political prisoners in Belarusian jails; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22531/26]
100. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she has raised or will raise the case of a person (details supplied) with the Chinese Ambassador and with the Chinese authorities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22375/26]
106. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on diplomatic efforts made by the State in response to legal persecution of LGBTQ+ persons in Senegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22987/26]
118. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Ireland’s policy on the defence of the protections within the European Convention on Human Rights, particularly on the Article 3 and Article 8 protections of the ECHR which were the subject of a letter signed by Ireland in December; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22944/26]
158. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she has expressed or will express concern at the adoption of legislation in Senegal that seeks to further oppress members of the LGBT community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22376/26]
63. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her plans to raise a matter (details supplied). [20770/26]
81. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her views on the continued detention in Hong Kong of businessman and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai, the harassment of one of his lawyers and an Irish citizen (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8209/26]
115. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she has raised concerns with the US about human rights violations in the United States, including the execution of peaceful protesters; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8703/26]
133. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she has been in contact with the US ambassador to express Ireland’s concern at the loss of life at protests in Minneapolis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8713/26]
1. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide details of his engagements with the embassy and government of Bahrain with regard to a human rights defender in custody in that country (details supplied). [6756/26]
208. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of his engagements with the government of Saudi Arabia and its embassy in Dublin regarding the arbitrary detention and torture of human rights defenders (details supplied). [3363/26]
218. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she is concerned by the reported harassment of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3232/26]
228. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74003/25]
244. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action Ireland is taking to protest the deportation of a person (details supplied) who documented the repression of the Uyghur people in China, by the United States to Uganda; if she will raise the matter with her American counterpart; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74773/25]
30. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on her Department's position in relation to the detention of a person (details supplied); the concerns raised in the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention report in June 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [72749/25]
149. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her attention has been brought to the case of a person facing charges for organising a Pride march in Hungary (details supplied); the steps she is taking at European Union level to prevent this direct attack on fundamental freedoms; if she will call for infringement procedures and interim measures to be taken to ensure that this case does no…
37. Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way Ireland is working with international partners to keep attention on the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66606/25]
56. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of Ireland's commitment to supporting democratisation, human rights and the rule of law as a key element of foreign policy, the extent to which Ireland is currently contributing observers to international election observation missions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66692/25]
58. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in Hungary; the actions she will take to ensure that this situation is raised at an EU level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66738/25]
7. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on challenges to human rights and the rule of law in Hungary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57468/25]
113. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Government's position on the growing crackdown on human rights in Hong Kong by the Chinese Communist Party. [56819/25]
7. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has considered the possibility of initiating an Article 259 TFEU case against Hungary specifically regarding the banning of the Budapest Pride Parade in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55903/25]
209. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he will raise the case of a person (details supplied) from Saudi Arabia who is in currently detained in Bulgaria, with his counterparts in Bulgaria and with the Bulgarian Embassy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52704/25]