Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 May 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs

Irish Presidency of EU: Discussion with Amnesty International

2:50 pm

Photo of Dominic HanniganDominic Hannigan (Meath East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

In regard to Islamophobia, the witnesses will be aware that Ireland hopes to open a chapter on Turkey's accession to the European Union but there will undoubtedly be resistance to Turkish membership. How much of that resistance would the witnesses ascribe to institutional Islamophobia and is Amnesty International doing anything to combat that on a pan-European basis?

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