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Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: It is the Government, Deputy Smith.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: He has 20 seconds.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: Yes.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: You can join us in the vote so, Deputy.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: I know I am known for my brevity but-----

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: I will try not to. I want to speak to Financial Resolution No. 1 on the increase in the price of cigarettes and tobacco products. This is not a popular thing to say but I am completely opposed to such a hike in the cost of cigarettes. I believe it is vindictive. It will not deliver the stated ambition of the Government. Yes, rates of smoking dropped from 27% in 2024 to 17% in 2019. This...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: 13. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his engagements and efforts in relation to the treatment of women in Afghanistan by the Taliban government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39046/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Policies (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: 14. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his engagements with the Minister for Transport regarding the illegal transfer of arms through Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39047/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Policies (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: 17. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the illegal transport of the weaponry of war through sovereign Irish airspace could damage or diminish Irish neutrality or credibility internationally; to outline, in order to prevent same, the steps he intends to take to vindicate Ireland’s policy of neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: 15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his engagements with the Israeli government; if he has raised the illegal trafficking of arms through Ireland bound for Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39048/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: 16. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 30 of 25 July 2023, and recent reports on the illegal trafficking of arms through Ireland, if he is fully confident Ireland has upheld its obligations under the Convention on Cluster Munitions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39049/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Presidential Elections (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: 18. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 13 of 6 March 2024, the Programme for Government commitment to hold a referendum on extending the franchise at presidential elections to Irish citizens living outside of the State, and further to his own recent remarks in relation to this, if he has abandoned this Programme for Government commitment;...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: 19. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contact he or any Minister in his Department have had with any minister or official in the government of Israel since January 2014; the nature of these contacts, the purpose of these contacts; if a record was kept; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39071/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Middle East (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: 62. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there are contingency plans in place to ensure the safety of Irish Defence Forces deployed with UNIFIL in Lebanon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38768/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Middle East (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: 67. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report in relation to the current situation in south Lebanon; the activities of Defence Forces personnel deployed on mission with UNIFIL in light of escalating kinetic activity in those regions; the measures taken to best ensure the safety and readiness of personnel, to reassure that they are adequately supplied should they be...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: 66. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the engagements he has had with his Cabinet colleagues regarding the illegal transport of weapons through Ireland; the capacity within the Defence Forces to surveil Irish airspace and ensure that aircraft do not transit Ireland without the knowledge and/or permission of Irish authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39051/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: 69. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the role of the air corps in surveillance and policing sovereign Irish space; the standard operating procedure should the Air Corps become aware that an aircraft is transiting sovereign Irish airspace illegally; the standard operating procedure should the Air Corps become aware that an aircraft carrying weapons of war is transiting Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Middle East (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: 68. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to reports that weapons of war bound for Israel have been illegally trafficked through Ireland, if he has conducted an analysis as to whether any such munitions have endangered the lives of Irish peacekeepers deployed on mission with UNIFIL to south Lebanon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39053/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Official Engagements (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: 70. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the contact he or any Minister in his Department have had with any minister or official in the government of Israel since January 2014; the nature of these contacts, the purpose of these contacts; if a record was kept; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39066/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (1 Oct 2024)

Matt Carthy: 71. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on his engagement with veterans' associations; the work of his Department to support veterans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39124/24]