Middle East
An official questions-paper heading. 363 questions (46 oral, 317 written), first 2025-01-22, latest 2026-07-28.
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| Month | Questions |
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| Jan 2025 | 3 |
| Feb 2025 | 36 |
| Mar 2025 | 3 |
| Apr 2025 | 47 |
| May 2025 | 25 |
| Jun 2025 | 13 |
| Jul 2025 | 44 |
| Sep 2025 | 50 |
| Oct 2025 | 32 |
| Nov 2025 | 22 |
| Dec 2025 | 6 |
| Jan 2026 | 19 |
| Feb 2026 | 8 |
| Mar 2026 | 22 |
| Apr 2026 | 2 |
| May 2026 | 15 |
| Jun 2026 | 3 |
| Jul 2026 | 13 |
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| Department | Questions |
|---|---|
| Foreign | 299 |
| Finance | 14 |
| Health | 12 |
| Justice | 8 |
| Housing | 3 |
| Further and Higher Education | 3 |
| Enterprise | 3 |
| Public Expenditure | 3 |
| Taoiseach | 3 |
| Children | 3 |
| Agriculture | 2 |
| Culture | 2 |
| Education | 2 |
| Rural | 2 |
| Social | 2 |
| Defence | 1 |
| Transport | 1 |
Debates under the same heading
Dáil debate sections whose official heading is exactly these words.
| Date | Debate section |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-02 | Middle East |
| 2026-07-02 | Middle East |
| 2026-05-26 | Middle East |
| 2026-05-21 | Middle East |
| 2026-03-26 | Middle East |
| 2025-11-27 | Middle East |
| 2025-11-27 | Middle East |
| 2025-10-21 | Middle East |
| 2025-10-21 | Middle East |
| 2025-10-21 | Middle East |
| 2025-09-18 | Middle East |
| 2025-07-16 | Middle East |
| 2025-07-15 | Middle East |
| 2025-07-10 | Middle East |
| 2025-07-10 | Middle East |
| 2025-07-10 | Middle East |
| 2025-07-10 | Middle East |
| 2025-05-29 | Middle East |
| 2025-05-29 | Middle East |
| 2025-04-01 | Middle East |
| 2025-04-01 | Middle East |
| 2025-02-13 | Middle East |
| 2025-02-11 | Middle East |
| 2025-02-11 | Middle East |
| 2025-02-11 | Middle East |
The questions
Richard Boyd Barrett
written
2025-07-29 · to Foreign
104. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to coordinate with his counterpart at the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to ensure that a family connected with Irish citizens are evacuated from Gaza (details supplied). [43284/25]
Richard Boyd Barrett
written
2025-07-29 · to Foreign
105. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to work with his counterparts at the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to ensure that the family of a Palestinian individual living in Ireland (details supplied) are evacuated from Gaza. [43287/25]
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-29 · to Foreign
135. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of evacuation processes in place for university students granted places at Irish universities to escape Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43962/25]
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-29 · to Foreign
136. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason there have been no evacuation flights from Gaza since April 2025; the reason there are no plans for further evacuation flights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43963/25]
Aengus Ó Snodaigh
written
2025-07-29 · to Foreign
146. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he accepts the legal analysis of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel that each state is obliged to undertake a thorough due diligence review of its aid and assistance to Israel; if he intends to con…
Richard Boyd Barrett
written
2025-07-29 · to Justice
1958. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to engage with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to ensure that a humanitarian worker (details supplied) is evacuated from Gaza. [41236/25]
Richard Boyd Barrett
written
2025-07-29 · to Justice
1959. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration If he will work with his counterpart at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to ensure that an individual and his family (details supplied) are evacuated from Gaza. [41242/25]
Richard Boyd Barrett
written
2025-07-29 · to Justice
1966. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to intervene to ensure that a person (details supplied) who has been accepted for a place in UCD is granted a student visa to exit Gaza and take up their studies in Ireland. [41327/25]
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-29 · to Health
2535. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Health the details of any coordination with other states on evacuation flights from Gaza, similar to the coordination with the Slovakian Government in December 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43964/25]
Pat Buckley
written
2025-07-29 · to Health
2585. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Health who is eligible for evacuation from Gaza to Ireland on medical grounds; and if people requiring medical attention in Gaza are eligible for evacuation if they are first cousins of Irish citizens. [41011/25]
Sinéad Gibney
written
2025-07-29 · to Health
3306. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Health if she will provide details of evacuation processes in place for medical evacuees attempting to escape Gaza; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44567/25]
Ruairí Ó Murchú
oral
2025-07-15 · to Finance
99. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Finance the engagement there has been between his Department, other Government Departments, agencies and legal advisers in relation to the facilitation by the Central Bank of the sale of Israeli war bonds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39278/25]
Pearse Doherty
written
2025-07-15 · to Finance
119. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to outline the State's investment through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund in companies operating in the illegal Israeli settlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39431/25]
Paul Murphy
written
2025-07-15 · to Foreign
202. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the plans the Government has to be represented at the conference on Gaza organised by the Hague Group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39399/25]
Sinéad Gibney
oral
2025-07-10 · to Foreign
2. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether his Department has had engagement with, or diplomatic representations from, US counterparts around the exclusion of services from the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38290/25]
Ruth Coppinger
oral
2025-07-10 · to Foreign
4. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade on his recent engagements with other states regarding the genocide in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38251/25]
Brian Stanley
oral
2025-07-10 · to Foreign
10. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he and his Department formally submitted an additional complaint to the International Criminal Court regarding the murder of thousands of Palestinian civilians by the Israel Defense Forces while queuing for food; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37868/25]
Catherine Connolly
written
2025-07-10 · to Foreign
14. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason the import of trade in services from the occupied Palestinian territories, and exports from Ireland to the occupied Palestinian territories in both goods and services, have been excluded from the general scheme of the Israeli settlements in the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) …
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
oral
2025-07-10 · to Foreign
16. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on his position in relation to the EU-Israel association agreement. [38030/25]
Brian Stanley
written
2025-07-10 · to Foreign
21. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for a timeline for the enactment of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37864/25]
Brian Stanley
oral
2025-07-10 · to Foreign
23. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on the steps he has taken, in conjunction with other EU governments, to have the Israel-EU trade arrangements suspended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37865/25]
Ruairí Ó Murchú
written
2025-07-10 · to Foreign
36. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans, and the international engagement there has been, on the issue of the Middle East, particularly on the genocide in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37592/25]
Donna McGettigan
written
2025-07-10 · to Foreign
37. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will establish an interdepartmental committee to investigate the need to end Ireland’s reliance on goods and services purchased from Israel and find alternative suppliers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35766/25]
Tom Brabazon
oral
2025-07-10 · to Foreign
46. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his assessment of the EU review of the EU-Israel association agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38058/25]
Peter 'Chap' Cleere
oral
2025-07-10 · to Foreign
48. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on his discussions with his EU counterparts on the EU-Israel association agreement. [38053/25]