Written answers

Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

 
  • Human Rights Issues
    174. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will, at the next periodic review at the United Nations Human Rights Council on Iran, follow through on the recommendations of the...
  • Undocumented Irish in the USA
    181. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress, to date, in establishing a visa waiver scheme at the embassy of the United States of America in Dublin, for returning...
  • Diplomatic Representation
    182. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if representations were made by him or his Department in the case of a person (details supplied), a prisoner in the United States of...
  • Foreign Conflicts
    183. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on concerns regarding the escalating situation in Yemen and the high civilian death toll that has resulted from military air...
  • Official Engagements
    184. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the basis on which he reported that the 27 ministerial trips abroad for St. Patrick's Day yielded an immediate €5 million, as against...
  • Undocumented Irish in the USA
    185. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the further progress that has been made on regularising the status of the undocumented Irish in the United States of America; and if he will...
  • Consular Services Provision
    186. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts being made to protect an Irish citizen (details supplied), being detained in Abu Dhabi who experienced severe difficulties in...
  • Irish Prisoners Abroad
    187. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a timeline of his communications with the Egyptian regime in the past three months regarding an Irish citizen (details...
  • Undocumented Irish in the USA
    188. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions, to date, with the embassy of the United States of America in Dublin on establishing a visa waiver scheme for returning...
  • Human Rights Issues
    189. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make representations to the authorities of Sweden, Britain and the United States of America regarding their treatment of a person...
  • Foreign Policy
    190. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on any contact or supports from Ireland to the autonomous provinces of Kurdistan in Iraq; and his views on Ireland's...
  • Northern Ireland Issues
    191. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his discussions with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; if the issue of the North's budget and welfare system...
  • Overseas Development Aid
    192. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade with reference to the global island policy framework, his plans on reaching the United Nations target of providing 0.7% of gross national...
  • Diaspora Issues
    193. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans for initiatives and projects to commemorate and celebrate the Irish diaspora, now that there are no longer plans for a national...
  • Foreign Conflicts
    194. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he and his colleagues at European Union and United Nations level continue to focus on the activities of Boko Haram and...
  • UN Resolutions
    197. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason Ireland voted no against the United Nations ad hoc mechanism on sovereign debt restructuring processes and missed the first...
  • Human Rights Issues
    198. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 539 of 31 March 2015, if he will report on any further representations made to the authorities of the...
  • Nuclear Proliferation
    199. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has been following the multi-country talks on Iran’s nuclear programme; and if he is satisfied with the progress they made....
  • Climate Change Policy
    200. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in recognition of the effects of climate change, which have impacted on Ireland through the severe Atlantic storms of last winter but which...
  • Middle East Issues
    201. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he has taken at European Union level to raise his concern at recent pronouncements by the Israeli Prime Minister, Mr. Benjamin...
  • Human Rights Issues
    202. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that this year, 24 April 2015, the annual Armenian genocide remembrance day, marks the centenary of the genocide, and that no...
  • Millennium Development Goals
    203. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on Ireland's role in negotiations in the post-2015 development agenda; the key areas Ireland will focus on; and...
  • Human Rights Issues
    204. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any discussions with European Union counterparts on human rights and workers' rights issues in Colombia; and if he will make a...
  • Overseas Development Aid Expenditure
    205. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that Ireland is represented at the highest level at the financing for development conference in July 2015; and his views...
  • Passport Services
    206. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is in a position to provide five-year passports for senior citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15187/15]
  • EU Membership
    207. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has conducted an assessment of the impact of a possible exit by the United Kingdom from the European Union; if his...
  • Irish Prisoners Abroad
    208. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he continues to monitor the situation and engage with the authorities in Egypt, in respect of the continued detention of...
  • Northern Ireland Issues
    209. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to ensure the implementation of the truth recovery elements of the Stormont House Agreement, and services for victims and...
  • Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe
    210. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the decision of the Secretary General of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly not to...
  • Overseas Development Aid
    211. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide, in tabular form, the countries in receipt of overseas development aid from the Irish Government; if he will indicate, in...
  • Diaspora Voting Rights
    212. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason no voting proposals for Irish citizens abroad were contained in the global Irish Diaspora policy document; and if he will make a...
  • Foreign Policy
    213. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the recent election of Mr. Maithripala Sirisena in the Sri Lankan presidential election, his views on the situation in that...
  • Overseas Development Aid Expenditure
    214. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update regarding Irish Aid's spend for 2014; the checks and controls in place to ensure there is no fraud, and that...
  • Northern Ireland Issues
    215. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed the ongoing punishment beatings in Northern Ireland with the Secretary of State; his views on this matter; and if he...
  • Irish Prisoners Abroad
    216. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he sought at the European Council meeting in December 2014 that the issue of the detention of a person (details supplied) be raised with...

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