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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I think the Deputy's points are very valid. In my case, it was fake advertising encouraging people to get involved in a cryptocurrency company and they can become a millionaire. I was described as a millionaire, which I am not. I caught the one on X, there was one on Google and there was a series on X that was more refined. There was the Irish Independent and a journalist from the Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: They do not all have to be foreign actors. I know of one case in Ireland in the last general election where there was a significant victim of this and it had impacts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: It is quite shocking that Sudan is getting nowhere near the profile that the humanitarian crisis that is Sudan represents. It is one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent human history. It has generated the world's largest internal displacement and hunger crisis. On 3 May, the famine early warning system network warned of famine with millions of people experiencing severe hunger. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: It all speaks to a massive migration phenomenon across the world that is fundamentally caused by war, authoritarian regimes and climate change. If you are a young Eritrean of years of age and are facing a life under an autocratic military leader, that is a reason to try to get out. The problem is they are smuggled out; they pay or their families pay. They have terrible journeys. They end...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I thank Senator Ardagh for her comments. I take her point on the International Criminal Court and the international legal system more generally. I have always been very clear that it takes time and that the impact is not immediate. However, the court is an important forum of accountability. Among EU member states, Ireland has been one of the most proactive at the ICJ and the ICC so far in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: Investment in cybersecurity has grown exponentially in the past five years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I will be here next week to debate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: In regard to the Irish Embassy in Tel Aviv, that EU local statement was on Holocaust Memorial Day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: It was in that context that the statement from the EU member states was signed off. To be fair to the embassy, generally we are in touch with it on multiple occasions daily. There has been a great deal of interaction between the embassy and the Government of Israel in respect of our stance on this issue. There is no ambiguity or misunderstanding about our position in regard to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: Generally speaking, the advice of Attorneys General-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: The arms embargo Bill is presented and the Minister for Transport is leading on this. To put the debate in context, we have no evidence at all that there are any flights. I am not aware we are complicit in anything in terms of overflights to Israel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I know, but equally there have been statements from certain actors - not from Senator Higgins - who have turned the absence of inspections into a kind of confirmation that a lot of these planes are flying over Ireland. They are not, from what we can make out. We need to have perspective when it comes to co-operation at EU level on the issue of military defence policy. We must have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: Yes. They have made their position in respect of Israel clear, because of what happened historically. I think there is a failure there to look at it in contemporary times in terms of Israel's destruction of Gaza and killing of Palestinians. I fail to understand the German position in respect of that. Germany is still the biggest contribution of humanitarian aid to Gaza and to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: We have already articulated our view and we have condemned the use of cluster munitions in this war, irrespective of who uses them.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Passport Service has issued 460,000 passports to date this year and is on track to have issued half a million passports by the end of this month. Virtually all complete passport applications are being processed within advertised turnaround times. All passport applications require supporting documentation to some degree, whether it is a photo uploaded online for an adult's renewal...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: With regard to the specific applications about which the Deputies have enquired, further supporting documents for these applications were received on 3 May 2024. Turnaround time from the receipt of further supporting documents is 15 working days.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: With regard to the specific applications about which the Deputy has enquired, further supporting documents for this application were received on 26 April 2024. Turnaround time from the receipt of further supporting documents is 15 working days.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 85 and 86 together. With regard to the specific applications about which the Deputy has enquired, these applications are within the current turnaround times and have not yet reached their issue by date.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: As I have previously stated, it is my intention to bring a formal proposal on recognition to Government following the completion of discussions with international partners. This is an issue that has been the subject of ongoing consideration in line with the Programme for Government. These discussions are ongoing and intensifying. I visited Jordan and Egypt in April and met with my...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 90 and 100 together. With regard to the specific applications about which the Deputies have enquired, the Passport Service has issued passports to the applicants.