Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4248/25]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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No bills for which the Department of Foreign Affairs had responsibility were initiated or enacted in 2024.

In that year, my Department worked to promote our values and to advance Ireland's prosperity and interests abroad in line with its Statement of Strategy 2024-25. The Department's annual report for 2024, to be published later this year, will contain details of the progress achieved in the delivery of the high level goals set out in the Strategy. This progress will also inform the development of my Department's next Statement of Strategy on which work will shortly commence.