Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 12 November 2015
175. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) who is imprisoned in the Philippines; and the assistance his Department is providing in this case. [39882/15]
View answerThe Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has been providing consular assistance to the Irish citizen and his family through the Embassy of Ireland in Singapore, the Honorary Consul in Manila and the Consular Assistance Unit in Dublin and we are in ongoing direct contact with the family.
In October, during a visit to the Philippines, an Embassy official raised the case with the Philippine Ministry of Foreign Affairs and requested that a date for the appeal be expedited on humanitarian grounds. I also personally raised the case with a senior official of the Philippine Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the margins of the recent ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Luxembourg.
Let me assure the Deputy that my Department will continue to offer all possible consular assistance to the family.
