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Ged Nash Written 28 Apr 2026 · to Foreign
249. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it is the current policy of her private office/Department to formally invite or notify all local Oireachtas members of constituency events at which Ministers are in attendance in the course of performing their ministerial duties and functions; if she will provide the Department's current policy or protocol on this; and if she will make a stateme…
Peadar Tóibín Written 15 Apr 2026 · to Foreign
157. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if assistance will be provided to a person (details supplied). [27503/26]
Peadar Tóibín Written 15 Apr 2026 · to Foreign
158. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to review the case of a person (details supplied) regarding travel arrangements. [27585/26]
Michael Cahill Written 14 Apr 2026 · to Foreign
293. Deputy Michael Cahill 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. [25157/26]
Michael Cahill Written 14 Apr 2026 · to Foreign
294. Deputy Michael Cahill 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. [25158/26]
Alan Kelly Written 14 Apr 2026 · to Foreign
302. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she plans to expand Ireland House model in the United Arab Emirates. [25528/26]
Sinéad Gibney Written 14 Apr 2026 · to Foreign
322. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her position on the proposed digital omnibus package, particularly regarding the rules for businesses with regard to the use of personal data and the use and development of artificial intelligence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26062/26]
Sinéad Gibney Written 14 Apr 2026 · to Foreign
323. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her position on the proposed digital omnibus package, particularly regarding the effect of the package on online media and social media; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26065/26]
Ruth Coppinger Written 14 Apr 2026 · to Foreign
331. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to consider imposing sanctions on a minister of a country engaging in genocide (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26469/26]
Cathal Crowe Written 25 Mar 2026 · to Foreign
15. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the main policy achievements of her Department since 22 January 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23077/26]
Colm Burke Written 24 Mar 2026 · to Foreign
227. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding her Department's collaboration with other neutral EU countries to ensure peace and stability in the Middle East from an EU perspective; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22476/26]
Eoin Hayes Written 4 Mar 2026 · to Foreign
9. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade given the Governments recognition of the State of Palestine, its position on issues (details supplied). [17440/26]
Pádraig Rice Written 10 Feb 2026 · to Foreign
243. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to comments made at an event (details supplied), if he will provide details of how the IHRA Definition was ‘formally adopted’ by the Government in January 2025; if this decision was approved by Cabinet; if so, if he will provide the date of the Cabinet meeting which decided same. [9000/26]
Emer Currie Written 10 Feb 2026 · to Foreign
245. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her Department’s position on a matter (details provided); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9211/26]
Peadar Tóibín Written 5 Feb 2026 · to Foreign
62. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade her views on whether clear criteria should be put in place for the decision on whether or not there is a referendum on a United Ireland; the timing of such a referendum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8344/26]
Cathal Crowe Written 10 Dec 2025 · to Foreign
89. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the main policy achievements of her Department since 22 January 2025 [70524/25]
Donna McGettigan Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
101. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to detail the human rights, anti-racism, academic and civil society groups his Department engaged with in relation to the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism; the groups or individuals that proposed its introduction to him; if consideration was given to adopting the Jerusalem…
Sean Fleming Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Foreign
26. Deputy Seán Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will support the reinstatement of DNA testing in Ireland for intending parents, following surrogacy treatment abroad, on their return home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44695/25]
Cathal Crowe Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Foreign
175. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the main policy achievements of his Department since 23 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38755/25]
Brian Stanley Written 10 Apr 2025 · to Foreign
71. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the future revenue of the all-Island economy, given that tariffs are 10% in the North and 20% here, which is creating a two-tier trading arrangement with Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18142/25]
Brian Stanley Written 10 Apr 2025 · to Foreign
72. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government will support measures from Europe or not to deal with the proposed tariffs by the US that may be damaging to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18143/25]
Grace Boland Written 10 Apr 2025 · to Foreign
73. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will use all means at his disposal including political and diplomatic avenues, to secure the release from detention of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18231/25]
Malcolm Byrne Written 1 Apr 2025 · to Foreign
213. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the Government’s approach to the issue of global governance of activity in space. [14724/25]
Rose Conway-Walsh Written 27 Mar 2025 · to Foreign
136. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 54 of 22 January 2025, if he will provide a list of acceptable test providers for the examination of DNA evidence in support of a passport application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14665/25]
Brendan Smith Written 6 Mar 2025 · to Foreign
179. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the recent report of the Independent Reporting Commission; if he will outline the Government’s views on the absolute need to rid society of paramilitarism; the measures that will be implemented to deal with such issues of criminality, gangsterism and thuggery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10524/25]