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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (13 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 273. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of a case (details supplied) in which activists have been jailed; if he will advocate for their release and support the investigation into human rights abuses in the region. [23703/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (13 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 342. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the rationale for purchasing four H145M helicopters; whether any missiles have been bought for these helicopters; whether there is any plan to buy any missiles for these helicopters; and if so, which type of missiles and from which company. [23613/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Investigations (13 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 415. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of any investigation carried out by his Department in relation to the allegation that munitions are being carried through Irish airspace en route to Israel; the findings of any such investigation; and the timeline for completion of any investigations. [24203/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (13 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 903. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of approved and refused short-term visit and tourist visa applications in the past five years. [24350/25]

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (8 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: They fought so hard for those questions.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Proposals were reportedly brought to Cabinet this week to criminalise people who wear face coverings on protests. Anyone wearing any type of face covering, be it a disabled person wearing a medical face mask or a religious person wearing a face covering, can be ordered to remove it by the Garda.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Okay. I am interested to hear the answer. What was reported is that if people refuse to remove a face covering they could then be arrested. It certainly seemed like an attack on the right of people to protest, particularly disabled people, who subjected the last Government to one of its biggest defeats in terms of a row-back on the Green Paper on disability reform. Many of them - people...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Would the Tánaiste like me to drop these over to him, the emails and so on, in order that he has them? Does he need them? Would he like me to drop them over to him?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I will drop them over to him.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: These are the Tánaiste's words: Children are starving. Basic painkilling medicine cannot be accessed. Hospitals are being bombed and the scale of death and destruction in Gaza is almost unimaginable. It is certainly unconscionable. Famine is a real risk for many Gazans and children are even dying as we speak ... We cannot and will not stand idly by and let this happen. These...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: How could the Tánaiste say these things? The Ditch has informed him, and I am very happy to pass over a folder of waybills from the airlines themselves. We do not need to investigate it; the airlines themselves are declaring that they are carrying weapons. These have been sent to the Tánaiste repeatedly, not just after the fact, but in advance of the fact. One of the receipts I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: They are on the waybills. I can give them to the Tánaiste-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: They are admitting it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: We do not need aircraft to find out about it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: They are telling the Tánaiste that they are carrying weapons-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: -----and he is not doing anything about it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: We can see the Tánaiste's studied, deliberate and false ignorance, pretending that he does not know what is going on and suggesting we need to have aircraft to inspect commercial airlines in the sky over Ireland. What is he suggesting? Again, it is very simple. I am really happy to give these waybills from the aircraft to the Tánaiste that repeatedly show that thousands of tonnes...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: ----- fly through our airspace if they violate these basic laws. Does the Tánaiste agree with that? Is he going to act to stop-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: ----- Silk Way, Challenge, Delta and Lufthansa continuing to fly? We actually need action-----

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Last week, Israel attacked an aid flotilla bound for Gaza with drones in international waters against people who were bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza. That is shocking, but for Israel it is not unprecedented. Fifteen years ago, ten people were killed aboard the MV Mavi Marmara as part of the freedom flotilla. Fourteen years ago, when I was an MEP, I participated in the freedom flotilla....