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Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: No, I am not.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: The Tánaiste has just commended the EU on having that precise model. The EU has missions and also has envoys.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: I have two very brief questions.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: And conveniently ignored if I remember correctly, Chair.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: Fair play, Chair. I have a quick question on diaspora supports. Going back to Melbourne, there was a recent report that a group of Irish people were looking into the prospect of establishing a Gaelscoil. I know there have been other areas where that has been looked at. Is that something the Department, in conjunction with perhaps the Department of culture and the Department of Education,...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: I have seen that again. I will mention Melbourne for the third time because-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: It did because there is actually a GAA club in Melbourne, called the Sinn Féin GAA club.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: I am sure the Minister would be very eager for Government to support that club and also its rival club which is called the Wolfe Tones GAA club. Apparently, the rivalry between the two clubs can get as intense as any inter-parish rivalry when it comes to their championship.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: There is no Fine Gael club as far as I know, Chair. I just want to touch on the passport service. I recognise the huge pressure it has been under over the past few years. I acknowledge that the service last year was immensely improved on the previous year. I have had experience of this. Online renewals are virtually without hitch. The service is very quick, efficient and easy to use....

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: I get cases where people might be making a one-day or a three-day appointment. It is very different if I live in this city. That is something a person can do on their lunch break or take a couple of hours off work. If somebody is coming from the top end of County Derry or Donegal, that is a very different scenario. That is a full day of their lives taken out, if there is childminding or-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: The Minister is correct. When urgent cases are brought to the attention of Members of this House and we bring them to the Passport Office, officials there are exceptionally good and sympathetic in dealing with that. I am always wary of a service that involves a politician having to intervene and ask for it. There is nothing worse than failing to see a text message and next thing it is not...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: Under Standing Order 83(3)(b) I propose that the vote be taken by other than electronic means.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: 16. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current status of the stated intention to scrap the LÉ Eithne; if he will review the decision to scrap the vessel and instead put it to alternative uses, considering that this was the last such vessel built at Verolme dockyard in Cork and the other historical roles that this vessel was involved in; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: 111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there has been a specific review of the oversight of the Immigrant Investor Programme in respect of premises (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4525/24]

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: If this were not so serious, the Minister of State's play on words would be entirely laughable. To suggest that the Government's amendment is simply some small linguistic textual changes to our motion is, as I said, laughable, but also inexcusable. The Sinn Féin motion calls very clearly on the Government to make a declaration of intent that it will join the South African case against...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: It is not agreed.

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: Changing "do" to "do not". We want to insert "reiterates its unequivocal condemnation of the brutal terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel on 7th October, 2023". That needs to be said and I think most Irish people would agree with that. Then we ask for the deletion of the words " call on Israel to immediately implement fully" and we say on a textual basis "reiterate its call on Israel to...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: I move: That Dáil Éireann: expresses its deepest concern at the continued deterioration of the situation in Gaza and the resulting catastrophic humanitarian disaster with over 25,000 killed, thousands missing, almost two million people displaced, and massive destruction of housing and vital infrastructure, including hospitals and education facilities; deeply deplores the major...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: The story of Ireland is a story of migration. Irish people have been forced to move to every corner of the world during periods of famine, hunger, conflict and poverty. Countries have been made richer because of the positive contribution that Irish emigrants, their children and grandchildren have made. Today our migration story has evolved. Thousands of our young people leave Ireland and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: Hear, hear.