Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 105: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his proposals to remove the names of two minors from the passport of a person (details supplied) living outside the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40980/06]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The names of the two children to whom the Deputy has referred are not included on the passport of their father, who resides in Lebanon. The children were in fact issued with passports in their own names in 1998, with the consent of both parents. The Department has been in contact on several occasions with the children's mother including during the recent Lebanon crisis, when it was also in contact with her two children. I can assure the Deputy that the Department, the Embassy in Cairo and the Honorary Consul-General in Beirut will continue to provide the children's mother with all possible consular assistance.