News & Statements

Foreign Affairs Update: India 16th January 2013

To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which, at EU and UN level, he and his colleagues are in a position to focus attention on the rape and sexual assaults on women and girls worldwide regardless of nationality or culture with particular reference to the most recent incidents in India...

Foreign Affairs Update: Syria 16th January 2013

To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which it is intended to use Ireland's influence in the course of its Presidency of the EU to positively influence the situation in Syria...

Fybromyalgia Support Services

To ask the Minister for Health his future plans to engage with the Department of Social Protection in order to ensure that sufferers of Fibromyalgia received their entitled payments at the earliest possible point with particular reference to both Departments recognising the illness as a long term illness; and if he will make a statement on the matter.