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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: 3. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications on hand for more than three, six, nine and 12 months, respectively; and the measures the Passport Office is enacting to ensure the speedy processing of all applications during peak summer months. [27473/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: I acknowledge the tremendous efforts of the Passport Office staff, particularly at this time of the year. Will the Minister tell me the number of passport applications on hand for various lengths of time? What measures are his Department and the Passport Office enacting to ensure there is a speedy processing of all applications during these peak summer months?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: I have put on the record of this House on a number of occasions that when the passport service works, it works incredibly well. We have all heard people describe their surprise with the speed at which a renewed passport in particular arrives through their letterbox. At the same time, we have to acknowledge that there are incidences where there are problems. The particular issue about which...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: Everybody values the Irish passport. It is one of many people's most prized possessions, particularly those who have had to leave our country and move elsewhere. It is a source of pride to display the passport with the harp anywhere in the world and see the value that is attached to it by others. It is also an entitlement of every Irish citizen to have a passport, and there is a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: European Union (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: 1. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagements he has had regarding the formation of the next European Commission; and if he supports the proposed reappointment of Ursula von der Leyen as Commission President considering her actions in supporting the State of Israel in the ongoing assaults on Palestine. [27472/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: European Union (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: Will the Tánaiste confirm to the Dáil whether it is really the Government's intention to support today the reappointment of Ursula von der Leyen as the President of the European Commission considering her actions in supporting unequivocally the State of Israel in its ongoing assault on Palestine and grievous breaches of international law?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: European Union (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: I find the Tánaiste's statement deeply cynical and worrying, to be quite frank. To say that Ireland and the EU have been well served by the Presidency of Ursula von der Leyen shows disregard for the seriousness of her actions in giving unequivocal cover for an unfolding genocide. Yes, Ursula von der Leyen did the right things on Brexit and, by and large, on Covid. However, what she...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: European Union (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: The Tánaiste says that Europe is divided. Yes, there are two sides within Europe in respect of the approach to Palestine and Israel. There is the side that it is in full, unequivocal support of international law and there is the other side, which is represented by Ursula von der Leyen, that is willing to turn a blind eye to international law in a way that will have dire consequences...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: European Union (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: -----is deeply cynical and worrying. I worry that Ireland is picking a side-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: European Union (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: -----that is on the wrong side of history today.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: 29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to the formal recognition of the state of Palestine, his proposals to support the Palestinian state and to hold Israel to account for the crimes currently being committed against the Palestinian people. [27490/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: 45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has engaged with his Greek counterpart in response to reports of the Greek coastguard having deliberately drowned migrants. [27494/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: 46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his efforts to provide for self-determination for the people of Western Sahara. [27492/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: 58. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the Government intends to lodge a declaration of intervention in the case before the International Criminal Court taken by South Africa concerning the application on the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip against Israel. [27493/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: 79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to report on the progress of legislative or other changes that will provide for local authorities to install CCTV cameras in the vicinity of ‘bottle banks’ and other waste collection locations. [27368/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: 88. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the meetings he has had and-or the briefings he has received in respect of the North South Interconnector. [27367/24]

Pre-European Council: Statements (26 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Minister of State for her opening statement. I do not know whether I have had an opportunity to wish her well since her new appointment but if not I do so now. I acknowledge that accession conferences have been held or are ongoing with Moldova, Ukraine and Montenegro. It is the right of states and the people of those states themselves to decide what the wherewithal of their...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (26 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: 5. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to deepen Ireland’s diplomatic presence in Australia and New Zealand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27475/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (26 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: 17. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on his proposals to expand Local Link services in County Monaghan; if the village of Smithborough will be added to the network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27377/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (26 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: 50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected timeframe for the completion of new school buildings (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27400/24]