Results 1-20 of 607 for israel speaker:Simon Coveney

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...last number of years. She has, I think, given extraordinary leadership in the Commission. I think we make a different argument in terms of emphasis than she has perhaps done with regard to the Israel-Gaza conflict.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: The Central Statistics Office (CSO) compiles statistical data on the value of Imports. CSO data indicates that the value of good imported from Israel to Ireland in 2020-2023 was as follows: Imports 2020 2021 2022 2023 €121 mn €2.4 bn €4.8 bn €3.6 bn The main...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Export Controls (14 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: ..., brokering, technical assistance, transit and transfer of dual-use items. In 2023 my Department received and issued 32 applications for individual dual-use authorisations for exports to Israel with a value of €70,376,677. It is the practice of my Department to seek the geopolitical views of the Department of Foreign Affairs in respect of all dual-use export applications....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Export Controls (14 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...of tensions or armed conflicts". In addition, my officials seek the geopolitical views of the Department of Foreign Affairs in respect of all applications for export licences including those destined for Israeli end users. Accordingly, the Department of Foreign Affairs raises relevant human rights considerations in respect of all export licence applications received from my...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Export Controls (8 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...final assessment of any licence application. In the period 7 October 2023 to date, my Department issued three individual dual-use export licences with a value of €31.4 million to end users in Israel. The three exports license were for category 5 items - ICT hardware and software.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Export Controls (8 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...of the existence of tensions or armed conflicts". In the period 7 October 2023 to date, my Department issued three individual dual-use export licences in respect of ICT hardware and software, to end users in Israel.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Export Controls (8 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...strong encryption for ICT security purposes. My officials seek the views of the Department of Foreign Affairs in respect of all applications for export licences including those destined for Israeli end users. The Department of Foreign Affairs reviews all dual-use export license applications received from my Department against the eight assessment criteria set out in Council Common...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (7 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...supported by the appointment of a number of in-market part-time business development consultants located across multiple geographies including South America, South Africa, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and during 2022, Israel. These consultants identify target companies with potential for investing in Ireland, engage with senior decision-makers in these companies and promote Ireland as an...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Export Controls (23 Jan 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...Department to issue licensing exceptions, and no such provision existed in the previous regulations. The number of live individual dual-use licences issued to Irish traders in respect of exports to Israel is set out in the table below by category. Category Number issued 0 1 2 4 5 27

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Export Controls (17 Jan 2024)

Simon Coveney: I, like all my colleagues in the government are extremely concerned with the destruction evident in the Israel-Hamas conflict. Ireland has a robust export control system in place. An authorisation is required to export dual use items to a third country and for transfers of military equipment within the EU, as a well as for export to a third country. Exports of dual use and military goods to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...in market business development consultants on a part-time basis in markets with business potential and in which IDA Ireland does not have a presence. IDA Ireland successfully tendered for a part-time Israel-based business development consultant during 2021, with the contract commencing in February 2022. This contract ended 12 months later, at the end of January 2023. Following the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...As he knows, I have been a very strong voice at a European level in relation to the rights of the Palestinian people to have a state of their own and on a two-state solution, a peace process and holding Israel to account for breaches of international law. I continue to hold all those views. I speak in the context of the human tragedy we have seen unfold both for Israelis and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...Ireland maximise its influence in the context of bringing about peace? How do we ensure we keep communication channels open with those who are influential in bringing about peace, including the Israeli Government? Unlike some in this Chamber who would simply cut diplomatic ties with Israel, which I believe would be a mistake, the Government is trying to engage and is having the difficult...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: Ireland’s trade relations with Israel are governed by a Free Trade Agreement as part of an overarching EU-Israel Association Agreement, which came into force in June 2000. The Association Agreement aims to provide an appropriate legal and institutional framework for political dialogue and economic cooperation between the EU and Israel. It is important to note that the Free Trade...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Data (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: The Central Statistics Office (CSO) compiles statistical data in relation to Goods Exports and Imports. According to the CSO, the value of our goods exports to Israel was €821 million in 2021 and €1,049 million in 2022. The value of our goods imports from Israel was €2,439 million in 2021; and €4,836 million in 2022. The value of our services exports to Israel was...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: Ireland’s trade relations with Israel are governed by a Free Trade Agreement as part of an overarching EU-Israel Association Agreement, which came into force in June 2000. The Association Agreement aims to provide an appropriate legal and institutional framework for political dialogue and economic cooperation between the EU and Israel. It is important to note that the Free Trade...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...Occupied Territories Bill are led by colleagues in the Department of Foreign Affairs. Ireland applies a whole of Government approach to the policy of differentiation between the territories of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Furthermore, the Government’s position on the illegality of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory informs our engagement...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...by case basis. My officials seek observations from the Department on foreign policy concerns, including human rights considerations, that may arise in relation to proposed exports to end users in Israel and elsewhere.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...as ‘Dual-use’ items as a consequence of the fact that they make use of strong encryption for data protection purposes. The value of individual 'Dual-Use' export authorisations issued in respect end users in Israel from 2019 to date is as follows: 4.7 million euros in 2019, 7 million euros in 2020, 10.4 million euros in 2021, 10.7 million euros in 2022 and 66.5 million euros...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (22 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...that these are operational matters for IDA Ireland and not ones for which I have a direct role in. IDA Ireland has informed my Department that it had successfully tendered for a part-time Israel-based Business Development Consultant during 2021 with the contract commencing in February 2022 and that this contract ended 12 months later, at the end of January 2023. Following the...