Results 1-5 of 5 for operation sophia speaker:Séamus Healy

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Data (28 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: 94. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of occasions on which a Naval Service vessel participating in Operation Sophia in the Mediterranean Sea transferred migrants and refugees from an Irish vessel to another vessel at sea; the number transferred in each case; the national designation of the ship to which they were transferred in each case; the port at which the...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: ...Libyan coastguard and, through the coastguard, the Libyan Government, which is torturing migrants in these camps. The Taoiseach is Minister for Defence and, as such, he is responsible for this area of operations. In a parliamentary reply recently I was told that 139 suspected people smugglers or traffickers had been apprehended under Operation Sophia and that 545 boats were taken from...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: Since Operation Pontus in the Mediterranean became Operation Sophia, the number of refugees landing in Italy has more than halved. For a considerable time, there has been serious concern that the price that the EU and Ireland are prepared to pay for stemming migration is the gross abuse of the human rights of migrants. The Irish office of Amnesty International has stated, "The Libyan...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Operations (14 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: 50. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of occasions on which a Naval Service vessel participating in Operation Sophia in the Mediterranean Sea docked at an Italian port since 25 July 2017; the number of occasions on which migrants and refugees have been put ashore at an Italian port directly by an Irish vessel participating in Operation Sophia since the same date; the...

Defence Forces Operations: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: The Naval Service is participating in Operation Pontus as part of a bilateral agreement with the Italian Government. Operation Pontus is a purely humanitarian mission rescuing migrants at risk of drowning in the Mediterranean. To date, the Naval Service has saved approximately 16,800 migrants. The Government's proposal to participate in Operation Sophia, which is supported by only eight of...