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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: My Department is responsible for processing Foreign Birth Registration (FBR) applications for people who are born abroad and claim Irish citizenship through a grandparent born in Ireland or through a parent who has claimed citizenship also through FBR, Naturalisation or Post Nuptial Citizenship. FBR applications are currently being processed within the normal turnaround time of 9 months...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Broadband Infrastructure (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: My Department uses a variety of telecommunications channels to deliver its services. Of the channels mentioned, it uses: - 6 ISDN lines for public facing telephone communications - 1 'fractional' ISDN line and 28 PSTN lines for building utilities. My Department no longer uses copper leased lines.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: In June 2018, the Government launched Global Ireland: Ireland’s Global Footprint to 2025. The strategy aims to see Ireland’s global footprint and influence double in the period to 2025, including through an expanded and strengthened diplomatic presence. The Global Ireland strategy commits to opening at least 26 new diplomatic Missions by 2025. Since its launch, 27 missions...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: Ireland and Finland share very cordial ties. We are like-minded EU partners and our bilateral relations are warm and constructive. Our countries have well-developed and long-standing cultural and people-to-people connections, trade relations and partnerships on the international stage, including proud records of peacekeeping. Finland also played an important role in the Northern Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: With regard to the specific application about which the Deputy has enquired, further supporting documents for this application were received on 22 April 2024. Turnaround time from the receipt of further supporting documents is 15 working days.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 145 and 155 together. I am aware of reports regarding the incident in question. The incident described took place in the context of a protest within Berlin’s government district. I understand that the rules surrounding this protest related to all languages other than English and German, and not to Irish in particular. There are domestic German...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: All passport applications are subject to the provisions of the Passports Act 2008, as amended ("the 2008 Act"). The 2008 Act provides, among other things, that a person must be an Irish citizen before a passport can be issued to that person. In order to meet this requirement, each passport applicant must demonstrate an entitlement to Irish citizenship by providing acceptable documentary...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: With regard to the specific applications about which the Deputy has enquired, the Passport Service has approved the applications.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Sanctions (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: My Department engages extensively with the United States on a wide range of foreign policy issues. Recent high level political engagements with the United States Government, including my visit in February to Washington DC and then Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s visit to Washington in March, were opportunities to discuss a number of priority foreign policy issues, notably the ongoing conflict...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: With regard to the specific application about which the Deputy has enquired, this application is within the current turnaround times and has not yet reached its issue by date.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: With regard to the specific application about which the Deputy has enquired, the Passport Service requested further documents for the application on 23 April 2024. The application cannot proceed until the required supporting documents have been received.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: I travelled to Egypt and Jordan from 23 – 25 April 2024 as part of this Government’s continued efforts to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the wider Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Both Egypt and Jordan are at the forefront of regional and international efforts to halt the conflict in Gaza, address the dire humanitarian situation and resume a meaningful political...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Union (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Department of Foreign Affairs publishes a list of all of the Statutory Instruments and Acts that it has sponsored, on the Department's official pages within gov.ie at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/22d66-acts-statutory-instruments/# acts The Deputy will find below a list detailing from 20 February 2020 to date those Acts and Statutory Instruments which were necessitated...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: With regard to the specific applications about which the Deputy has enquired, the Passport Service has issued passports to the applicants.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Local Authorities (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: No grant aid to local authorities was returned or surrendered in the years in question.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: With regard to the specific application about which the Deputy has enquired, further supporting documents for this application were received on 23 April 2024. Turnaround time from the receipt of further supporting documents is 15 working days.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: My Department's core IT infrastructure is provided by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) under the 'Build to Share Managed Desktop' shared service. The data and telephony, which is Voice Over IP (VOIP), communication lines for the Department of Defence are fibre optic communication lines. My Department also has a number of copper communication lines that are...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: European Union (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: Work is currently in progress within my Department to transpose the new Critical Entities Resilience (CER) Directive (Directive (EU) 2022/2557). The deadline for transposition of this Directive is 17 October 2024. Apart from this Directive my Department has not sponsored any legislation within the scope of the Deputy's question.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Local Authorities (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: I can confirm that none of the grant funding assigned within my budget for the 2022 and 2023 financial years was returned or surrendered. The position in relation to the 2024 financial year cannot be confirmed until post year end as the budget is assigned for the financial year and can be used at any time during the year.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Apr 2024)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 110, 111, 112 and 113 together. The Passport Service has issued over 380,000 passports to date this year. The majority of online adult renewal applications issue within two working days and over 90% of applicants now apply online. In October 2021, the Passport Service established a phone line to respond to Oireachtas Members' queries on urgent passport...