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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Conventions Ratification (16 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 115. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15034/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Conventions Ratification (16 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 116. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has sought advice from the National Disability Authority on the issue of ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities; if so, the advice that she received; if that advice identified impediments to the State ratifying the convention; the details of those impediments; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (16 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 140. To ask the Minister for Health his plans, or the considerations that have been taken, to make more defibrillators available on public streets and at outdoor locations, especially in busy pedestrian and transport locations; his views on providing greater access to defibrillators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15030/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 168. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the killing of the farmers' leader (details supplied) on 5 March 2015 in El Castillo, Meta, Colombia; his further views on the Colombian army's counter-insurgent campaign in the Meta region, and the jailing of 39 farmers' leaders from the region, including the leader of the National Association of Peasant Reserve Zones...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 169. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of actions taken against farmers and trade unionists by the Colombian armed forces, if his Department has discussed the human rights situation in Colombia with the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy or her officials, or if his Department has raised it at a European Council level; his views...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the sugar cane cutters' strike in Risaralda, Colombia and the force used against those striking workers by military and police, which resulted in serious injury to striking workers; if he will report on any discussions with and representations made to the Colombian Government or its ambassador on these matters; his views that...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 171. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on a land dispute between indigenous communities and a sugar cane landowner in the north of Cauca, Colombia, which saw the Colombian state forces intervene with tanks against the indigenous community, and has left over 50 wounded and two dead; if he will report on any discussions with and representations made to the Colombian...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 171. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on any developments in the detention and trial of a person (details supplied) in Egypt; if he will report on consular assistance provided to that person and the person's family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15326/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: I, too, want to raise the case of Ibrahim Halawa, an Irish citizen who is a prisoner of conscience according to Amnesty International. The case is extremely urgent, as the next hearing will be in five days. It is obviously accurate that the decision on whether to release Ibrahim will be made by the Egyptian authorities, but what is problematic is the idea that Egyptian law applies. There...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: I urge the Minister and the Government to go with the option of the Taoiseach intervening. In five days time Ibrahim could be sentenced to death. Yesterday, 22 people were sentenced to death for participation in a protest. There is no chance of him receiving justice in what is a mass trial. The Minister recognised the reality that the Egyptian authorities will decide, but the nature of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the fact that people from the embassy will be in attendance and monitoring and I accepted the intentions of the Government are not to harm Ibrahim in any way, but at this stage what is needed is the highest possible level of political intervention. Of course there are differences in other cases, but was high level political intervention a factor in the case of the Australian...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 173. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the alleged human rights abuse of African-Americans in the United States of America by police authorities; if he raised the matter with the ambassador of the United States of America to Ireland; if the embassy has raised this matter with the authorities in the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: What is the Minister's view of the human rights abuses of African-Americans in the US, in particular, a number of killings of African-Americans, including the killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray and others by police authorities, and the killings of Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis and others? Those killings have given rise to the Black Lives Matter movement in the US and they...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: I will also quote President Obama, who said "What happened in Ferguson may not be unique, but it's no longer endemic or sanctioned by law and custom". It is endemic. A report by the US Department of Justice found a pattern of civil rights violations by the Ferguson police department and points to shocking statistics. Some 90% of people who received a citation in Ferguson were African...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: There is systematic racism in the US, and this is reflected in the actions of the police, which are seen in the statistics in black and white. I also raise the treatment of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a celebrated prisoner and former Black Panther who was the victim of a racist frame-up, has been on death row since 1982 and, in recent weeks, has faced potential execution through medical neglect.

Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: It is morally wrong.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 182. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if representations were made by him or his Department in the case of a person (details supplied), a prisoner in the United States of America, who has had health difficulties recently. [15281/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 191. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his discussions with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; if the issue of the North's budget and welfare system was discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15282/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 198. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 539 of 31 March 2015, if he will report on any further representations made to the authorities of the People's Republic of China regarding the detention of women's rights activists. [15283/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 204. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any discussions with European Union counterparts on human rights and workers' rights issues in Colombia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15279/15]