191. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade with respect to his responsibility for anti-racism policy if it remains the position of the Government that the explanatory examples given as part of the IHRA definition of antisemitism are not an integral part of the definition (details supplied) and therefore that the Government has not adopted them as part of its adoptio…
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47 questions from 14 TDs, between 26 March 2025 and 20 October 2026.
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636. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration with respect to his responsibility for anti-racism policy, if Ireland will implement policy similar to that which exists in Germany, where legitimate and peaceful civil society groups have been placed under police observation on the grounds that under the IHRA definition of antisemitism their political opinions are considered …
637. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to disallowed Parliamentary Question Ref. No. 1170 of 10 June 2025, if he will be providing or commissioning any advice to staff and agencies under his remit concerning any legal risks involved in applying a non-statutory definition of discrimination in decision-making processes for the purposes of distinguishing betwe…
646. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the reason responsibility for anti-racist policy transferred to his remit alongside migration when anti-racism concerns ethnic minority citizens as much as it does migrants. [32770/25]
1059. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to correspondences (details supplied) how the IHRA definition of antisemitism supports or complements the National Action Plan Against Racism per Government press releases, when the Minister responsible for the latter is not able to account for the status of the former. [30479/25]
3. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 215, 216, 217, 218 and 441 of 29 April 2025, if he is aware of the use of the IHRA definition of antisemitism as a tool by groups and colleges in other countries to ban and penalise events being organised in universities and other non-state bodies that promote and reference Palestine or P…
4. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 190 of 20 May 2025, the specific individuals or organisations that raised concerns with his Department or the Government ahead of the adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism (details supplied). [27887/25]
117. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 190 of 20 May 2025, whether through the IHRA working definition of antisemitism the State has endorsed the position that criticism of Israel is only legitimate when it concerns actions of the government of Israel and that therefore endorsed that criticism of the State's constitutional a…
189. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach further to his comments to representative groups regarding addressing antisemitism in Ireland (details supplied), if he will provide details of his plans to appoint a national co-ordinator to oversee efforts to counter antisemitism. [25964/25]
190. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in respect of his responsibility for equality policy, his views on the way in which it is possible for persons to be clear that they are not applying double standards to Israel by requiring of it a behaviour not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation, which is described as a form of antisemitism in the IHRA wor…
670. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice in respect of his responsibility for equality policy the details of engagements between his Department and the ICCL and other civil liberties groups ahead of the Government's adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism and since the adoption of the definition. [25426/25]
671. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice in respect of his responsibility for equality policy the reason there was no public consultation ahead of the Government's adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism as there was ahead of the adoption of the National Action Plan Against Racism. [25427/25]
710. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 26 March 2025 and his plans to engage with community representatives, if he will meet with representative groups (details supplied) on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25963/25]
144. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Justice with respect to the May infringement package announced by the European Commission (details supplied) his plans to address INFR(2024)2205 with respect to combatting racism and xenophobia, his intention to bring forward legislation in this area and the timeframe he is working to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24818/25]
113. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice if Ireland remains at risk of facing infringement proceedings from the EU regarding the Council Framework Decision on combating racism and xenophobia; the steps he will take to mitigate against this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21356/25]
215. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason the definition of antisemitism given by an organisation (details supplied) was accepted by the Government in January of this year. [20186/25]
216. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade who lobbied the Government to implement an organisation's definition of antisemitism (details supplied), both within Ireland and externally. [20187/25]
217. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade who in Government decided that the definition of antisemitism given by an organisation (details supplied) was to be adopted. [20188/25]
218. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the names and positions of elected and or unelected officials who signed off on the decision to implement a definition (details supplied). [20189/25]
194. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that a person (details supplied) and Jewish Holocaust survivors, experts and over 100 civil society groups urge world leaders against the adaptation of the IHRA’s definition due to blurring of the distinction of criticisms of the state of Israeli and antisemitism; and if he will scrap the adaptation of the IH…
112. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice the role of his Department in giving effect to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance ‘Working Definition of Antisemitism'; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14255/25]
174. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures proposed as part of the Programme for Government’s commitment to giving effect to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance ‘Working Definition of Antisemitism'. [14256/25]