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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (28 Jun 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...representatives and other key stakeholders in the Southern United States towards achieving Ireland's objectives as set out in the Government's US & Canada Strategy 2019-2025 and Ireland’s Diaspora Strategy 2020-2025. This includes engaging with state and local political representatives, providing support to Irish communities and organisations, delivering consular assistance...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by H.E. Maura Healey, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (27 Jun 2023) See 4 other results from this debate

Jerry Buttimer: ...means she is one of us. This is her ancestral place and we say to her: "Welcome home.". Like President Biden who visited us recently, Governor Healey has a genuine personal pride in her Irish ancestry. She also shares that same pride. Today, I think of the wider Irish diaspora in Boston and across America, but in particular in the state of Massachusetts, the place they first touched...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...ago about maximising our cultural and genealogical heritage. We published a report on that in 2015 and one of the things that stuck out for me was the affinity that was felt, particularly by the diaspora, for accessing records and seeing a physical connection. Records are a public good. The website the Department runs, www.geneaology.ie, is one that I use and it is very good. The more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Trade Relationship with Canada: Discussion (20 Jun 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

...was consecrated in 1847, indicating there was already an established Irish population that was sufficiently wealthy to build its own cathedral. To this day, the flag of Montreal still proudly sports a shamrock. There is an active and growing Irish diaspora living in the province, helping to support more than a dozen Irish societies, as well as the vibrant school of Irish studies at...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diaspora Issues (15 Jun 2023)

Joe Flaherty: 9. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for a report on the implementation of the Diaspora Strategy 2020-2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28096/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Strategies (15 Jun 2023)

Micheál Martin: .... The broad strategic vision of my Department remains very clear: protecting and promoting peace on our island, providing a first class Consular and Passport Service to our citizens, supporting our diaspora communities, active and principled membership of the UN, the EU and other international fora, delivering a high-quality development programme, and expanding Ireland’s presence...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undocumented Irish in the USA (15 Jun 2023)

Micheál Martin: ..., and has been a steadfast advocate for the undocumented Irish over many years. During that visit, I also spent time with organisations in New York and Boston that are actively supporting the Irish diaspora. My Department provided over €4.2 million in Emigrant Support Programme Funding this year to organisations that provide ongoing, valuable assistance to our citizens, including...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Enlargement (15 Jun 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...that Ireland might take to support to accelerate Moldova’s path to accession. For instance, at Moldova’s request, Minister of State Fleming recently hosted President’s Sandu’s Advisor on Diaspora Policy in Dublin for a series of meetings to share our experience of supporting and engaging with diaspora and attracting investment. The EU has also provided...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (15 Jun 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...presence is helping Ireland to defend our economic interest and promote our values in a changing and uncertain international landscape. It has also assisted Ireland in building stronger bridges to our diaspora and promote our culture. Increasingly, where feasible, the focus and nature of our missions is the Ireland House model, where diplomatic and State agency colleagues work together...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undocumented Irish in the USA (15 Jun 2023)

Micheál Martin: ..., and has been a steadfast advocate for the undocumented Irish over many years. During that visit, I also spent time with organisations in New York and Boston that are actively supporting the Irish diaspora. My Department provided over €4.2 million in Emigrant Support Programme Funding this year to organisations that provide ongoing, valuable assistance to our citizens, including...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Security, Recruitment and Training at Dublin Airport: Discussion (14 Jun 2023)

.... That is what we do as a big infrastructure business but it is a national conversation. How do we strike the right balance as a periphery nation? We love to travel. We also love to welcome the diaspora back. Also, you will never be able to take the train from Dublin to Nice, so we have to get the balance right. I am thinking of a wider aviation approach, with newer aircraft,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disabled People's Organisations and the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (1 Jun 2023)

...I live is the home of the Kabi Kabi peoples of Southeast Queensland. My Irish ancestors from Kilkenny, Cork, Tyrone and Dublin would be immensely proud to know that their descendant, one of the diaspora of the Famine, has been honoured with this opportunity. I pay my respects to members, my ancestors and the people on whose land I reside upon with gratitude. I apologise for my inability...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ratification of Agreement Establishing EU-LAC Foundation: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (31 May 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Peter Burke: ...was launched under the Global Ireland initiative. The strategy contains more than 60 commitments mapped to five key objectives, covering political, economic, development co-operation, cultural and diaspora-based engagement with the countries of the region. The strategy is delivering a sea change in terms of Irish engagement with the Latin America and the Caribbean, LAC, region and the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (30 May 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...closely with local representatives and other key stakeholders in the Southwest region of the United States, including in fulfilment of Ireland's US & Canada Strategy 2019-2025 and Ireland’s Diaspora Strategy 2020-2025. This includes engaging with state and local political representatives, providing support to Irish communities and organisations, delivering consular...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of Moldova: Engagement with Ambassador of Moldova (24 May 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

...among the Moldovan people for promoting reforms and pursuing our dream of joining the democratic world. Moldovan people at our national assembly, which took place on 21 May, in Moldova, and where such gatherings took place comprising the Moldovan diaspora in cities, including Dublin and Cork, firmly stated that our path is European integration. The participants adopted a resolution that...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (18 May 2023)

Mark Daly: .... Her Excellency is most welcome to Seanad Éireann. I thank Senator Carrigy for bringing her here. There is a link between south Longford and north Westmeath to Argentina. Our fifth largest diaspora community lives in Argentina, even though they left a long time ago in the early 1800s. They had an enormous impact in Argentina. As we know, there is a hurling club in Buenos Aries....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (18 May 2023)

Catherine Martin: ...Famine Commemoration provides an opportunity for a host community to honour the memory of those who perished or suffered loss during the famine. The International Famine Commemoration provides diaspora communities the opportunity to remember and reflect on the impact of the famine and the emigration that followed in its wake, and also celebrate the achievements of those who fled...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Diaspora Issues (11 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 198. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure that voting rights for Irish emigrants are aligned with the criteria used in other European countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22228/23]

Seanad: Electoral Reform (Amendment) and Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (10 May 2023)

Michael McDowell: ...'s attempts to legislate on this matter were cynically quashed. That is what happened. A decision was made that the Government would, once again, do the old trick of getting rid of the unionist and diaspora representatives in the House and stuffing it with people they thought would end up in Dáil Éireann with a favourable wind behind them. How mistaken they were, according to...