Cabinet Committees
Dail Éireann — 2025-07-15
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Peadar Tóibín (AON), Meath West

Last week, I raised the issue of the GAA Palestine organisation seeking to get visas for children to play hurling in this country. I think most people will recognise the shocking devastation that exists in their home country, and most people with a heart would seek for them to be able to find solace in Ireland in the coming weeks. I was shocked to hear about a group of people from the GAA Palestine organisation having travelled to Dublin to seek a meeting with the Department. They brought all the documents with them but were denied a meeting with any official within the Department, I am told. One would imagine that the instinct of the Government would be to make sure the Minister met this group and be proactive in seeking a solution to this. Can the Taoiseach indicate what happened there and why no Minister sought to proactively fix this situation so we do not have this current stalemate?

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Sitting date: 2025-07-15