Bernard Allen (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 373: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the official relationship of Ireland with the Palestinian Authority; if Ireland recognises the Palestinian Authority as an emanation of a sovereign state; and if its representatives here qualify for diplomatic immunity. [35542/05]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The Government and all of its EU partners maintain friendly relations with the Palestinian Authority. We have regular contact with the authority at political and official level. It is the view of the Government that a Palestinian state has not been established under international law.

The Palestinian Authority established a delegation general in Ireland in 1993 and the Government established a representative office in Ramallah in 2000. The delegate general enjoys functional immunity but not diplomatic immunity under the Diplomatic Relations and Immunities Acts of 1967 and 1976.