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Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (10 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: I am pleased to present the Revised Estimates for my Department for 2022. I hope committee members are not tired of listening to me given our conversations yesterday and again today. I will try to move through the Revised Estimates as quickly as I can. I will focus on Vote 28 - foreign affairs. My colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Brophy, will address the committee afterwards...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (10 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: To what does the 50% figure refer?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (10 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: I will happily try to jump around those questions and answer them all. I will deal with the embassies first. I think I am right in saying that since the Global Ireland strategy began a few years ago, we have opened about 15 new embassies and consulates. That is quite significant. I refer to places such as Santiago in Chile, Bogotá in Colombia and Vancouver. We have opened an...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (10 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: Is the Deputy asking if we have changed that?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (10 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: The first issue has been raised with me by many colleagues, including Deputy Stanton. Particularly for first-time applications, when an applicant was told a mistake had been made and they sent in corrected forms or new photographs or whatever, the clock started again and the application took another eight weeks. That is no longer the case. Now, when a correction is made or extra...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (10 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: Deputy Berry asked the last question previously and I did not answer it. We are co-locating with the EU delegation. The EU delegation is responsible for the building and we sub-lease from it. I am not aware of it having been damaged, but I do not know for sure. We had some local staff there. That facility is not operating. Our team left some time ago, along with members of the EU...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (10 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: That is a fair point.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (10 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: There was one other question on Expo 2020. There will be an evaluation process of the value for money and so on of expenditure on expo. I think some people in this room have been to expo and will have seen what a shop window to the world it has been for us. I believe it represents value for money but we are going through a formal process and cannot complete that until expo activities...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (10 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: I thank the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on the Crisis in Ukraine: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (10 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: On the Moldova issue, I know that the Chairman has spoken to the Moldovan ambassador in regard to some of these concerns, as I am sure others have too. We are due to meet them tomorrow to follow up to see if we can provide any assistance there. I have made it very clear to colleagues in the EU countries that border Ukraine that we are available to help in any way we can from a logistics...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: With regard to the specific application about which the Deputy has enquired, the Passport Service has contacted the applicant's parent directly to provide an update on the status of the passport application to the applicant and to advise on requirements for expediting a passport application in the case of a travel emergency.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: With regard to the specific applications about which the Deputy has enquired, the Passport Service has provided an update on the status of the passport applications to the applicant.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 90 and 98 together. With regard to the specific applications about which the Deputies have enquired, the Passport Service has issued passports to the applicants.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Funding (9 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: The Department of Foreign Affairs provides funding to a range of non-governmental organisations through a series of grant schemes dedicated to delivering on the Government's priorities at home and abroad. These include support for international development overseas, development education in Ireland, reconciliation on the island of Ireland, emigrant support and information on the European...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (9 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: There are currently 63 resident diplomatic missions in Ireland. The table below sets out the total number of resident diplomatic staff and defence/military attachés notified to the Department of Foreign Affairs by each resident diplomatic mission under Article 10 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (VCDR) 1961 in each of the years requested. These notifications are used to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (9 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 93 and 94 together. The Government position regarding the situation in Xinjiang, and, more recently, regarding the findings of the Uyghur People’s Tribunal, were set out in the Seanad on and on . Ireland remains deeply concerned about the evidence-based reports of human rights violations and abuses in Xinjiang. We have raised these concerns, along...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: Ireland implements both United Nations sanctions, as adopted by the UN Security Council, and EU sanctions, as adopted as part of the Common Foreign and Security Policy. Ireland does not apply unilateral sanctions. There are 14 UN sanctions regimes, concerning Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, North Korea, Guinea Bissau, Iraq, ISIL...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: With regard to the specific application about which the Deputy has enquired, the Passport Service has issued the passport to the applicant.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: With regard to the specific passport application about which the Deputy has enquired, the Passport Service has contacted the applicant's parent directly and provided a status update on the application.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (9 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has requested Member States to nominate candidates for the position of Observers for the OSCE ODIHR Election Observation Mission to Hungary for the Parliamentary elections and referendum which are scheduled to take place on 3 April 2022. This followed the OSCE ODIHR...