Written answers
Thursday, 4 October 2018
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Irish Prisoners Abroad
Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance)
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23. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had communications with the Prime Minister of Greece with regard to the detention of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40269/18]
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Officials at the Irish Embassy in Athens have been in direct contact with the family of the individual in question, and with the German authorities, since we were made aware of his detention.
As the individual detained is a German citizen, the German authorities are the competent authority under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations to provide assistance to this individual.
Officials in my Department continue to monitor the case, and stand ready to provide all appropriate assistance to this individual and his family, in close cooperation with German counterparts.
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