Parliamentary questions

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 bei…

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

76. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on a potential global agreement or convention to decriminalise homosexuality and enhance LGBTQ rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47069/25]

77. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the meaning of reference to automotive standards in Paragraph 8 of the Joint Statement on a United States-European Union Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair and Balanced Trade ("With respect to automobiles, the United States and the European Union intend to accept and provide mutual recognition to e…

78. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised concerns about reference to automotive standards with the European Commission or otherwise at the European level about Paragraph 8 of the Joint Statement on a United States-European Union Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair and Balanced Trade ("With respect to automobiles, the Unite…

79. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has endorsed reference to automotive standards in Paragraph 8 of the Joint Statement on a United States-European Union Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair and Balanced Trade ("With respect to automobiles, the United States and the European Union intend to accept and provide mutual recognition …

80. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that the issues outlined in detail in a publication (details supplied) is discussed at the Foreign Affairs Council and at the UN; whether measures have been introduced to counteract the persecution and displacement of Christian communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47227/…

81. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the up-to-date position regarding the review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47335/25]

82. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has put forward at EU level the urgent need to impose additional meaningful sanctions on Israel in view of the ongoing genocide being inflected on the people of Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47336/25]

83. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 100 of 29 July 2025, if he will instruct the bodies under his aegis to provide the information requested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47357/25]

84. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 101 of 29 July 2025, if he will instruct the bodies under his aegis to provide the information requested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47375/25]

85. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether civil society will be consulted in relation to Ireland’s upcoming EU Presidency; the process for this; when will it begin; the way in which Irish organisations can express an interest in participating; if financial resources will be made available to support civil society engagement; and if he will ma…

86. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the range of sanctions imposed by the United States on the European Union have been finalised for all sectors; the measures that will be introduced to assist businesses that will be adversely affected by these sanctions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47458/25]