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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Priorities (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: We need dates, terms of reference and specific objectives within a timeframe. Let us look at what is happening in the light of the 2011 UN guiding principles, under a framework of protect, respect and remedy. Coal from the Cerrejón mines in north-east Colombia is still being used by the ESB despite well-documented human rights abuses associated with the operation of this mine. Airbnb...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Priorities (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: 60. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 37 of 8 February 2024, for an update on his Department’s engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs with a view to developing a new business and human rights action plan and implementation body; the number of meetings held to date by the stakeholder forum; the dates of same; the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Priorities (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: ...Aire nua. Is pribhléid amach agus amach é. Guím gach rath orthu sa dá ról. Cinnte, ní bheidh aon drogall orm iad a chrá le ceisteanna. My question specifically relates to the new business and human rights plan. Four years after the previous plan came to an end, we are still waiting for that plan. Why has there been a delay? I understand the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Priorities (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I appreciate the Minister of State's ambition. He said that the review showed that 91% of commitments in the original plan were implemented. However, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission found that "While a high implementation rate is reported, there was a failure to meet key commitments within agreed timeframes and the Plan focused on 'promotion' rather than mandatory and...