Human Rights
Dail Éireann — 2024-03-07
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Brendan Howlin (LAB), Wexford

I certainly join others in commending the bravery of Alexei Navalny and all others who stand against Putin's autocracy. The Tánaiste set out rightly the litany of human rights violations now afoot in Russia. On our actions, I produced and brought before the House, as the Chair of the justice committee here present will recall, the Magnitsky legislation to ensure we and our financial services sector here are not used as a conduit for the ill-gotten gains of the autocrats who now rule Russia. Will the Tánaiste undertake to re-examine the opposition of the Government to the enactment of the Magnitsky legislation which was unanimously supported on a cross-party basis both on Second Stage in this House and at the justice committee?

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Sitting date: 2024-03-07