Election Monitoring Missions

168. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if she will examine options to enable Ireland to deploy Irish roster election observers to significant elections in developed democracies, including in EU member states such as Hungary and Bulgaria, the United States and Canada; if she will consider providing a small supplementary allocation under Vote 28 or establishing a…

30. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if her department has received any communication from the OSCE-ODIHR for Short-Term Observers for the Election Observation Mission to Hungary; the number of observers that Ireland plans to nominate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18986/26]

225. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether Ireland, in its capacity as a participating State of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, intends to nominate and deploy Irish election observers through the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights to monitor the forthcoming snap parliamentary elections in Bulgaria; if so, the …

226. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether Ireland, as a participating State of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, will nominate and deploy Irish election observers through the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights to monitor the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Hungary; if so, the number of observers proposed…

172. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether the mandatory requirement that members of the Irish Election Observation Roster must apply for at least one mission a year has been lifted; the implications of this for the smooth running of the roster and active members; the number of such members that have not applied for any missions in the last two years; whether …

195. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to allegations of election impropriety in Albania by some international observers; the actions he will take to engage with officials in that country in relation to these allegations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37198/25]

196. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he will take at a European Council level to discuss the recent election results in Albania; if allegations of election impropriety from some international observers is on the agenda for the next Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37199/25]

187. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 27 May 2025, the reason, given the Government's support for political integration of former associates of paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland through the Good Friday Agreement so as to incentivise decommissioning of arms, it has taken the opposite view in relation …

116. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the names of persons appointed as international election observer to the Irish 2024 election observer roster; the number of such members that still have to receive an offer of deployment; the plans to provide such offers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27174/25]

381. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to a statement by an international election observation NGO (details supplied) that encountered difficulties observing the last general election calling for greater clarification of the rights of election observers; if he has any plans to address these concerns; the proposed timesc…