Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I second the call to invite the ambassador in again but the issue is how the Chairman frames it. If she is asked to speak about Ibrahim, she will say, "No, there is a court case", but there is nothing to prevent us asking her to come in to talk to us about the state of play in Egypt and the problems within prisons without being specific. Ibrahim is not the only person suffering in an Egyptian prison. While we are concerned primarily about him, this might be a way of getting around it. We would, obviously, have to be careful in how we question whatever she says but there is a concern not just about the state of play in prisons, but also about what is happening in Egypt as a whole. That brings in what is happening in Gaza and in other parts of Egypt where the country's rule of law does not seem to extend. That might be a mechanism and we can give the ambassador a commitment that the specifics relating to Ibrahim's case may not be debated when she appears because of the court case. I presume she will not answer questions about the specifics of a pending court case.