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Other Questions: Garda Reports (16 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: This is a question of human rights and the right to privacy. The Minister seems to be suggesting that it is okay for undercover police agents to come here and be involved in police protest, even though this guy brought over the protestors with whom he was protesting. Sarah Hampton, one of the victims-----

Other Questions: Garda Reports (16 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: I am not wandering off at all.

Other Questions: Garda Reports (16 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: She writes, "I find it shocking that via my solicitor ... I have informed the Minister of Justice about such issues via legal letters dated 17 May 2016 and again on 20 December 2016, yet to date I have received no reply although both letters were even reported in the media." Why has the Minister not replied to Sarah Hampton on the various concerns she has raised?

Other Questions: Garda Reports (16 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: What precisely is the rule in this case?

Other Questions: Garda Reports (16 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: It is the most arbitrary and unfair-----

Other Questions: Garda Reports (16 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: People are named all the time.

Other Questions: Garda Reports (16 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: We cannot hide behind the bluster of the Acting Chairman. She says:I have many unanswered questions regarding Ireland. I want to know if Irish authorities knew what [the man in question] was doing, and I want details about his operations in Ireland. That is reasonable, considering his experience. She also asks:- Did you allow him to develop intimate relationships with women in your...

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...

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) - 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) - 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): 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...