Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 70 of 8 September 2025, whether the Government has a preference regarding the manner of implementation of the 2024 CJEU rulings regarding Western Sahara, namely the obtainment of the consent of the Sahrawi people in line with the principles of self-determination or, as the Commission have proposed, attempting to claim that such agreement without consent could deliver a tangible benefit to the Sahrawi people despite there being no clear mechanism to monitor such a benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49932/25]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Ireland has taken note of the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union with regard to Western Sahara.

The European Union is now preparing to negotiate an amendment to the 2018 Agreement between the EU and Morocco in the form of an exchange of letters following the conditions established by the Court in that judgment. As the process evolves, Ireland will keep progress in those negotiations under review to ensure that any new proposed arrangements respect the conditions established by the Court.

Both Ireland and the European Union support the efforts of the United Nations to find an acceptable political solution which would provide for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara consistent with the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations. Ireland does not have a view on the outcome of that solution so long as it is approved in a genuine exercise of self-determination.