Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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299. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken formally with the United Arab Emirates Ambassador to Ireland to date in 2022. [45861/22]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I have not spoken formally with the United Arab Emirates Ambassador to Ireland to date in 2022. Officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs are in regular contact with representatives at the UAE Embassy in Dublin.

In June 2021 I met with Foreign Minister Sheik Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan in the United Arab Emirates and we discussed a number of key issues ahead of the UAE joining the Security Council for 2022 – 2023. I also spoke by phone with Minister Al Nahyan in January 2022 to discuss Security Council issues. We spoke by phone again in May of this year when I conveyed my condolences to Minister Al Nahyan on the death of the UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan.

Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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300. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts that will be made beyond what has already been done to reunite an Irish mother and child (details supplied). [45933/22]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will appreciate, it would not be appropriate for me to comment on individual cases that are the subject of a State court ruling under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

The relevant Embassies have provided advice to the citizen, and are available for ongoing consular assistance and support, where appropriate. However my Department is precluded from intervening in the legal matters of other jurisdictions, as outlined in the Department’s Consular Assistance Charter.