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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the fact that people from the embassy will be in attendance and monitoring and I accepted the intentions of the Government are not to harm Ibrahim in any way, but at this stage what is needed is the highest possible level of political intervention. Of course there are differences in other cases, but was high level political intervention a factor in the case of the Australian...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 171. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on any developments in the detention and trial of a person (details supplied) in Egypt; if he will report on consular assistance provided to that person and the person's family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15326/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Prisoners Abroad (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: I, too, want to raise the case of Ibrahim Halawa, an Irish citizen who is a prisoner of conscience according to Amnesty International. The case is extremely urgent, as the next hearing will be in five days. It is obviously accurate that the decision on whether to release Ibrahim will be made by the Egyptian authorities, but what is problematic is the idea that Egyptian law applies. There...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 182. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if representations were made by him or his Department in the case of a person (details supplied), a prisoner in the United States of America, who has had health difficulties recently. [15281/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 191. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his discussions with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; if the issue of the North's budget and welfare system was discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15282/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 198. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 539 of 31 March 2015, if he will report on any further representations made to the authorities of the People's Republic of China regarding the detention of women's rights activists. [15283/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 204. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any discussions with European Union counterparts on human rights and workers' rights issues in Colombia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15279/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 213. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the recent election of Mr. Maithripala Sirisena in the Sri Lankan presidential election, his views on the situation in that country; if he supports the call for an international investigation into alleged war crimes, including genocide, carried out against the Tamil population at the end of the civil war in 2009; his views on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (21 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 522. To ask the Minister for Health if an appropriate bed space can be located in respect of a child (details supplied) in Dublin 13. [15638/15]

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: Two weeks ago during Leaders' Questions, with others, I raised the issue of the Dunnes Stores strike. I described the behaviour of the company as being like that of a 19th century dock owner, in using its ability to give or withhold work as an instrument of control, punishment and reward to create a submissive workforce. There has since been a successful strike by a majority of Dunnes...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Community Rating (16 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 33. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the expected take-up of health insurance by persons under 34 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14709/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Conventions Ratification (16 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 115. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15034/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Conventions Ratification (16 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 116. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has sought advice from the National Disability Authority on the issue of ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities; if so, the advice that she received; if that advice identified impediments to the State ratifying the convention; the details of those impediments; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (16 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 140. To ask the Minister for Health his plans, or the considerations that have been taken, to make more defibrillators available on public streets and at outdoor locations, especially in busy pedestrian and transport locations; his views on providing greater access to defibrillators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15030/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 168. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the killing of the farmers' leader (details supplied) on 5 March 2015 in El Castillo, Meta, Colombia; his further views on the Colombian army's counter-insurgent campaign in the Meta region, and the jailing of 39 farmers' leaders from the region, including the leader of the National Association of Peasant Reserve Zones...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 169. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of actions taken against farmers and trade unionists by the Colombian armed forces, if his Department has discussed the human rights situation in Colombia with the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy or her officials, or if his Department has raised it at a European Council level; his views...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the sugar cane cutters' strike in Risaralda, Colombia and the force used against those striking workers by military and police, which resulted in serious injury to striking workers; if he will report on any discussions with and representations made to the Colombian Government or its ambassador on these matters; his views that...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (16 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 171. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on a land dispute between indigenous communities and a sugar cane landowner in the north of Cauca, Colombia, which saw the Colombian state forces intervene with tanks against the indigenous community, and has left over 50 wounded and two dead; if he will report on any discussions with and representations made to the Colombian...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I will be brief. My first question is to Mr. Smyth of the OPW. Following on from Deputy Fleming's contribution, in terms of money, the Government, in answers to parliamentary questions, says there is a capital works investment programme of €225 million for flood relief from 2012 to 2016. How does that compare to previous five-year periods?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: It is not the case that expenditure took place previously under different headings.