Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)
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177. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will investigate the case of an Irish person (details supplied) illegally taken while on holiday in breach of UN Convention on Human Rights. [20651/13]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy will appreciate that it would not be appropriate for me to comment on individual cases. Matters which have been or are the subject of legal proceedings are outside the scope of the my official functions and it would not be appropriate for me to comment or intervene in any way.

I understand that the individual involved in this matter has been in contact with the Central Authority for International Child Abduction. The Central Authority for International Child Abduction operates within my Department for the purposes of, among other international instruments, the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The Convention is designed to facilitate the return of children who have been removed from one contracting state to another.