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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: 12. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is monitoring the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Sudan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27587/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jun 2024)
Matt Carthy: 37. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his engagements with European partners regarding the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Sudan. [27491/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jun 2024)
Richard Bruton: More than 8 million people are displaced in Sudan, which is the same number as have been displaced from Ukraine. The country is on the brink of famine. There are widespread allegations of war crimes. The siege of Al-Fashir is now looking very like what we are seeing in Rafah. I am interested to hear what Ireland and the international community are doing in this sphere.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jun 2024)
Seán Fleming: I propose to take Questions Nos. 12 and 37 together. I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue, which has not received as much attention as it should in our national Parliament and in general discussions in Ireland. The Government shares the Deputy's serious concern at the situation in Sudan. Since the outbreak of conflict in April 2023, well over a year ago, official...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (27 Jun 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Before the Tánaiste comes in, a Theachta Durkan, you wanted to come in.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (27 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Thank you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I ask the Tánaiste whether the invasion by Russia of Ukraine has in any way impacted the accession talks for the other countries in the western Balkans that have been scheduled for EU accession. Similarly, has the progress towards extending potential membership to Ukraine been in any way affected by the same invasion?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: I am a passionate believer in enlargement, notwithstanding all the challenges that come with it and that Deputy Lawless outlined in terms of rule of law and alignment. As regards the constant challenges, it is clear that the populations of many of these countries want to be in the EU and want the norms we have in democracy and economic development and the Single Market benefits that brings....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (27 Jun 2024)
Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (27 Jun 2024)
Jackie Cahill: 8. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on any further engagement he has had with the UK Government on the Dublin-Monaghan bombings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27588/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (27 Jun 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy Brendan Smith will take this question.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (27 Jun 2024)
Brendan Smith: Thank you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. As the Tánaiste knows, we had commemorations in both Dublin and Monaghan on 17 May last to mark the 50th anniversary of the deadliest day of all during the Troubles, when 34 innocent people were killed and 300 injured. On a number of occasions in this House we have requested the British Government to co-operate with a full investigation by giving...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for his persistence and his advocacy for the families of the victims of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. On 17 May this year, we marked the 50th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, a brutal and devastating act of violence in which 34 people lost their lives and 300 people were injured. Alongside the Taoiseach and President Higgins, I attended the very...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (27 Jun 2024)
Brendan Smith: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply and recognise that he has been raising these issues for some time. As well as the Dublin and Monaghan bombings and other atrocities, I appreciate that he raised with the former British Prime Minister the bombing of Belturbet in December 1972. I assume that the Tánaiste will meet at an early date the new secretary of state and the new Foreign...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: In the context of whatever happens after the British general election and a new government being formed, we stand ready to engage with a new government to press these issues and to get resolution to them. We have consistently raised the provision of original documents with my British counterpart since taking office. I recognise that governments have a responsibility to protect national...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (27 Jun 2024)
Brendan Smith: I reiterate that people who lost family members and people who were injured say to me that they are getting older and the truth has not been established. It is more than 50 years ago now that these atrocities were carried out. We have to get the truth established. There is a moral, international, legal obligation on the British Government to co-operate with investigations. I would also...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: I will absolutely do that. I agree with the Deputy that this has taken far too long. We recently had the Seán Brown case, for example, which I have raised with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. I hope that with the new British government we will be able to revisit the legacy Act because the Operation Kenova report points in the right direction. It is a hugely significant...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (27 Jun 2024)
Question No. 9 taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (27 Jun 2024)
Shannon Airport Facilities
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (27 Jun 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: 10. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason US planes stopping at Shannon Airport are not searched to see if they are carrying arms for use in Palestine; his views on whether these actions are compatible with the historical and foundational Irish position of neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27593/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (27 Jun 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: I ask the Tánaiste to set out the reason US planes stopping at Shannon Airport are not searched to see if they are carrying arms for use in Palestine; his views on whether these actions are compatible with the historical and foundational Irish position of neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter.