Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence
Foreign Affairs Council and Priorities for 2023: Minister for Foreign Affairs
Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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What I can do, as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence, and what we can do as a Government and as a country, is strengthen the capacity of bodies like the International Criminal Court, the UN more generally, and the European Court of Human Rights. We can strengthen their capacities by supporting them with funding, resources and personnel. It is a source of great pride that we have an Irish woman at the head of the European Court of Human Rights.