Written answers
Monday, 8 September 2025
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Trade Agreements
12. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Government’s position on the EU-Mercosur trade agreement in light of its potential impact on Irish beef exports valued at... - Departmental Correspondence
20. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of emails his Department has received regarding the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 over the past 12... - Departmental Equipment
23. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether his Department has a working voicemail/messaging system to track phone calls that are not answered; and, if not, when did his... - Middle East
24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the request for help to facilitate the evacuation of a person (details supplied) in Gaza who was assured... - Departmental Policies
26. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will support the reinstatement of DNA testing in Ireland for intending parents, following surrogacy treatment abroad, on their return... - Social Welfare Fraud
28. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, given increasing public concern and anecdotal reports, he is aware of instances of individuals who have claimed asylum in the Republic of... - Passport Services
29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it is possible to provide space for both parents or guardians names and emergency contact details on a child's passport, especially for... - Middle East
30. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to consider points made by a person (details supplied) regarding life and death in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44805/25] - Passport Services
32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of the average turnaround times for passport applications submitted in Cork city and county since 1 May 2025; and whether he has... - Diaspora Issues
33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the plans he is considering to give voting rights to the diaspora; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44841/25] - Northern Ireland
36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his assessment of the potential impact of Northern Ireland’s invocation of the ‘Stormont Brake’ on cross-border trade... - Overseas Development Aid
37. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the tangible measures Ireland can take to fill the gap in international aid budgets now that leading donor countries have cut or indicated an... - Middle East
40. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the Government plans to publish the updated version of the Israeli Settlements (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill; whether any... - Departmental Properties
41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a list of all unused properties, lands and buildings, under the ownership or control of his Department within County Kerry; the... - Further and Higher Education
42. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the supports or scholarships that his Department provides regarding further and higher education; and if he will make a statement on the... - Human Rights
43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the treatment of a person (details supplied); and if he will raise the matter with the Chinese authorities. [45508/25] - Middle East
44. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/ES-10/24, adopted on 18 September 2024; and if he will make a statement on... - Departmental Data
45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of times reports, statements or other documents authored by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade have contained the term... - Middle East
46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a person who has been accepted on an academic course in Ireland will be evacuated from Gaza (details supplied) given the circumstances;... - Foreign Policy
48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the criteria used by the State to correctly recognise the State of Palestine; if he would also apply to those criteria to the recognition of... - Passport Services
49. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passports reported lost or stolen to his Department for each year from 2015 to 2024 and to date in 2025. [46147/25] - EU Presidency
50. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a programme of events for the Irish Presidency of the European Union in 2026 will be published. [46148/25] - Official Engagements
51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of engagements that he has had with his Ukrainian counterpart since coming to office; the nature of those exchanges; and if he... - Trade Relations
52. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline Ireland's trading relationship with Canada; and the extent to which the CETA trade agreement is improving that relationship. [46150/25] - Foreign Policy
56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline Ireland's relationship with Iceland; if there are any plans to establish an embassy in Reykjavik; and if he will make a statement... - Brexit Issues
57. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline his perspective of the impact on trade between Ireland and the UK since the UK formally left the European Union on 31 January,... - Foreign Policy
58. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding Ireland’s participation in the Hague Group; the details discussed at the meetings of the group over 15 and 16... - Middle East
59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish citizens murdered by Israel in the course of their genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza; the number of Irish... - Departmental Expenditure
60. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the total funding allocated to County Louth under this Department from 2023 to date, per year in tabular form. [46346/25] - Departmental Properties
61. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide the details and addresses of all properties in the ownership of the Department that are absolved from paying commercial rates to... - Passport Services
62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his Departments position in cases in which a passport application is not correctly logged within a Garda station or where a Garda station... - International Agreements
63. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress on the ratification of the UN High Seas Treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46602/25] - Foreign Policy
64. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he will raise with his German counterpart the vicious assault perpetrated by the German police on an Irish citizen protesting... - Diplomatic Representation
65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of male and female persons that applied for the post of personal assistant at the Irish Consulate General based in Miami. [46717/25] - Diaspora Issues
68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to respond to concerns (details supplied) that his Department’s diaspora survey did not include questions related to housing. [46742/25] - Foreign Conflicts
69. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government will condemn the attacks by the rapid support forces in Sudan which has left thousands dead and hundreds more still... - EU Agreements
70. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position Ireland will take in relation to the European Commission's recommendation for a council decision regarding the opening of... - Common Travel Area
71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to safeguard Common Travel Area provisions and Northern Ireland peace-process commitments given recent UK policy shifts including... - Trade Agreements
72. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he accepts that the €3 billion compensation package referenced in discussions on the Mercosur agreement amounts to a redundancy... - Human Rights
74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to commit to publicly supporting the Gender Apartheid Campaign and the explicit inclusion of the gender apartheid as a crime against humanity... - United Nations
80. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that the issues outlined in detail in a publication (details supplied) is discussed at the Foreign Affairs Council and at... - EU Agreements
81. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the up-to-date position regarding the review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47335/25] - Middle East
82. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has put forward at EU level the urgent need to impose additional meaningful sanctions on Israel in view of the ongoing genocide being... - Capital Expenditure Programme
83. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 100 of 29 July 2025, if he will instruct the bodies under his aegis to provide the information... - EU Presidency
85. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether civil society will be consulted in relation to Ireland’s upcoming EU Presidency; the process for this; when will it begin; the... - Trade Sanctions
86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the range of sanctions imposed by the United States on the European Union have been finalised for all sectors; the measures that will be... - Northern Ireland
88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress to date in replacing the legacy legislation enacted by the previous British Government; the likely timescale for agreement on...
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