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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Middle East Peace Process (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: 29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent policy change by President Trump regarding the two-state solution in Israel and Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8762/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Middle East Peace Process (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: The previous US Government, in its last few months in office, agreed a new military deal with Israel worth €38 billion over ten years. Then President Trump came to office. Within days, the Israeli Government announced the construction of 2,500 new settler homes in the West Bank. Within a few weeks, Trump withdrew from the previous, at least verbal, support of the US for a two-state...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Middle East Peace Process (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister agree that the strategy of the Israeli right, which is clearly in power, is to invent facts? In 1977, 5,000 settlers lived in the West Bank. Now, however, 400,000 settlers live in the West Bank and 200,000 in east Jerusalem. There is an attempt to avoid any prospect of a viable Palestinian state and to undermine that prospect completely. This is now actively supported by...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Middle East Peace Process (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: Trump's intentions are very clear from his statements about a one-state solution, his undertaking to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem, his refusal to view Israeli settlements as an obstacle to peace and his decision to stop pressurising the Israeli Government to negotiate. This is in a context in which the number of demolitions of Palestinian homes in the West Bank is increasing yearly at an...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Middle East Peace Process (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is going to the US in any event.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: I wish to follow up on the answers or non-answers by the Minister earlier to my raising of the issue of the Pitchford inquiry.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: They were very evasive answers.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: I will ask again what the Minister raised with the Secretary of State. He keeps saying he raised the concerns that we raised, but what concerns did he raise? I am not asking for him to repeat into the record the details or anything like that, but did he request the extension of the Pitchford inquiry to include Ireland? Did he ask or wonder about what on earth undercover British police...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: What issue?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: 53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on any contacts he has had with the leaders of parties in Northern Ireland and the British Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8765/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Ministerial Meetings (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: I had asked particularly in relation to the Pitchford inquiry. We know that at least four undercover British police officers were operating in this State. It seems that all of them commenced or had intimate relationships with women during that time. We know that the Metropolitan Police in Britain has apologised for that to people like Sarah Hampton and other victims. We know that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Ministerial Meetings (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: Could I ask the Minister to be a bit more precise? He says, and this is the phrase that is used repeatedly, that concerns were raised. What concerns were raised? Was concern raised that the Irish Government did not know that the police officers were operating in this State or was concern raised that the Pitchford inquiry does not include Ireland? It is really important that we know what...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Ministerial Meetings (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: 24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent meeting with Secretary for State for Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8821/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Ministerial Meetings (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister report on his recent meeting with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mr. Brokenshire? In particular, I am interested in the points the Taoiseach mentioned during Leaders' Questions that the Minister would be raising with Mr. Brokenshire, that is, undercover British police officers operating in Ireland and the call to extend the Pitchford inquiry to include...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Public Water Forum (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: The Deputy might be the only one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Public Water Forum (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: Right2Water yesterday clarified that they oppose any excessive usage charges. The witness may envisage an excessive usage charge that is about conservation as opposed to revenue-raising, and may possibly lose money. However, such an excessive usage charge could be a Trojan horse for broader charges. There could be pressure to raise revenue, reduce allowances and increase prices. What is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Public Water Forum (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: I would like the figure of how many people owed something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Public Water Forum (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: It is okay.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: 44. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the most recent postponement of the trial in Egypt of a person (details supplied) and contacts his officials have had with the Egyptian authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8766/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (22 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: 39. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the appropriateness of the planned visit by senior members of the Government to the President of the United States of America in view of the recent positions taken by the US President on immigration, human rights, foreign affairs and other issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8764/17]