Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My Department has not been involved in any discussions since 1 August 2013 in regard to trade missions to Egypt.

I am concerned about and personally sympathetic to, as well as moved by, what has happened to Ibrahim Halawa. While I am not happy he is incarcerated, the judicial process works differently in Egypt than it does in Ireland or in many other countries.

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