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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I think this House should praise, without question, the bravery of Iran's national soccer team yesterday. While others did not take a stand, they risked their safety by taking a clear stand against their own government yesterday on a fundamental issue. The Irish Times reports that at least 58 Iranian children have been killed since the anti-regime protests began, following the death in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disaster Response (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions that he has taken to date at the EU, UN or directly to address the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Somalia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57817/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disaster Response (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: The scale of the unfolding hunger crisis in Somalia and in its neighbours in the Horn of Africa is truly shocking. It clearly demands an urgent and comprehensive international response. My question is simply to ask the Minister to set out what that response is.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disaster Response (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: Few of us who witnessed it at the time will forget the visit of then President Mary Robinson to Somalia in 1992. After three days of visiting camps and meeting starving people, she broke down and wept at a press conference in neighbouring Kenya. People will remember that. Thirty years later it is happening again, only on an even greater scale. In a year of unprecedented hunger,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disaster Response (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I warmly welcome the Government's focus on these matters. Both the Minister of State, Deputy Brophy, and the Minister, Deputy Coveney, have a clear focus on the issue of hunger. Ireland has championed, with the United States, hunger at the United Nations as an absolute priority but now 22 million people face starvation in the Horn of Africa. There is an immediate issue that needs to be...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the actions taken to date by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in relation to the holding of Assembly elections in Northern Ireland; the discussions that he has held with parties with a view to restoring a functioning Assembly and Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57821/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Sports Events (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 91. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made any public statement or had any communication with Qatar authorities regarding LGBTQ+ rights for visitors to the World Cup games underway at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57820/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline Ireland's remaining priorities before the end of its term on the UN Security Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57822/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (22 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 120. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will set out the totality of supports in money and material given to support Ukraine to date; if Ireland has offered or provided any additional financial or technical assistance to Ukraine in restoring its damaged power, heating and water systems following Russia's recent targeted attacks on that infrastructure; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Budget 2023 (17 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 260. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will set out the amount allocated in Budget 2023 to update ICT in her Department; the amounts to be allocated to updating the digitalisation needs relating to asylum, migration or border controls including Eurodac, SIS and VIS; if she will set out the expenditure on these issues in 2022; and if she will make a...

Post-European Council: Statements (16 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: An bhfuil cóip den óráid ar fáil?

Post-European Council: Statements (16 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I am just asking for a copy of the speech.

Post-European Council: Statements (16 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: No excuse.

Post-European Council: Statements (16 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: Two minutes.

Post-European Council: Statements (16 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: I have two questions. First, I want to revisit the question just posed. I find the Minister of State's response entirely unacceptable. I refer to the notion of not overreacting. There has never, from my recollection, been a situation where the Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann was sanctioned and told he was not allowed to visit a country with which we have diplomatic relations....

Post-European Council: Statements (16 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: Would the Minister of State not call in the Russian ambassador and ask whether there is truth in it?

Post-European Council: Statements (16 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: All European debate is still dominated by the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation. It remains critical that Russia is called out at every international forum, whether a meeting of the EU Council, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, which recently met in Kigali and brought together parliamentarians from every nation, or the G20. Russia must be isolated as the sole aggressor...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (16 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that the passport application for a child (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56909/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Sector Pensions (15 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 599. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has had any discussions with Coillte Ltd. in relation to the pension situation of former Coillte workers who have not received a pension increase since 2007; if his attention has been drawn to reports that workers who transferred to Coillte from the Civil Service were assured that their terms and conditions as civil servants...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Election Management System (10 Nov 2022)

Brendan Howlin: 230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to any difficulties with persons accessing the check the register website and in registering to join the electoral roll; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55923/22]