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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Conflict Resolution (27 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: I thank the Tánaiste. I will just underline that what we are dealing with here is a dictatorship in Azerbaijan that has not only trampled over the rights of its own people but continues to do so with the Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, including those who have been arrested without trial. Azerbaijan also continues to threaten Armenia. As the Minister says, there have been attempts at...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (27 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: There is absolutely no evidence that any airport in Ireland or any Irish sovereign airspace is being used to transport weapons to the conflict in the Middle East. All foreign military aircraft wishing to overfly or land in the State are required, without exception, to obtain diplomatic clearance. This has been the case for many years. Such permission is granted only where all relevant...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (27 Jun 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I appreciate the Tánaiste's response. Since the conflict began, 37,202 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 85,000 injured. I acknowledge that 1,200 Israelis are reported to have been killed, with nearly 5,500 reported as injured. Some 17,000 children are now known by the descriptor, wounded child with no surviving family, WCNSF. Approximately 70,000 homes have been destroyed and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (27 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: I am very clear that there is no weaponry going via Ireland to Israel and certainly, as I have said, not through any airport. There is absolutely no evidence at all to suggest any airport in Ireland or Irish sovereign airspace is being used to transport weapons to the conflict in the Middle East. There is a distinction drawn between civil aircraft and military aircraft. Civil aircraft come...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (27 Jun 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I echo the concerns expressed by colleagues in the House and by the people of Ireland. I appreciate the Tánaiste's statement that there is no evidence of weaponry being transported through Ireland to Israel. However, there is also nothing to point to the contrary. The question is: how do we know? Do we take the word of those who possibly are supplying the arms being used in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (27 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: I take the Deputy's point. We condemn the bombardment of Gaza. What is happening in Gaza is absolutely shocking. It needs to stop and it must stop immediately. There has been a long-standing relationship between the United States and Israel, going back to the foundation of the latter state, and likewise between many European Union states and Israel. We are a militarily neutral country....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (27 Jun 2024)

Question No. 11 replied to with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jun 2024)

Foreign Conflicts

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...