Sinn F\u00e9in spokesperson on Foreign Affairs Se\u00e1n Crowe TD has condemned the two bombing attacks on innocent civilians in Brussels while speaking in the D\u00e1il on statements on the last European Council meeting.<\/p>\n
Deputy Crowe also raised his concerns over the EU\u2019s migration deal with Turkey, the Government\u2019s failure to spend millions in received from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, and the continued imprisonment of Irish citizen, Ibrahim Halawa, by the Egyptian authorities.<\/p>\n
Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish to express my condolences to the families of those who have been killed and injured in Brussels today and to condemn these horrific and cowardly attacks on innocent civilians.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe European Council meeting was primarily focused on migration and the refugee crisis. I think the Brussels attacks bring in to sharp focus why millions of people are fleeing the conflict and terror in Syria, Iraq, and other parts of the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe current system for these people and their families to get asylum and protection is broken. We need to urgently fix it and create a legal pathway that will deliver for vulnerable and desperate people.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe EU\u2019s deal with Turkey could involve mass deportations to Turkey and lead to mass human rights and international law violations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need a humanitarian response to this crisis and Ireland needs to urgently resettle more of the 4,000 refugees that it promised last year.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Deputy Crowe continued:<\/p>\n
\u201cI also raised an issue unearthed my party colleague Eoin \u00d3 Broin TD through Freedom of Information requests, which found that the Government has only spent 37% of the money it has received under the European Globalisation Fund. The money is supposed to be utilised and spent on the education and training for workers who have lost their jobs at Lufthansa Technik.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am calling on the Government to ensure that it fully utilises this money and also examines how it can be spent on the thousands of other young people from Dublin mid-west and south-west who are currently not in education training or employment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also raised the continued detention of Ibrahim Halawa in Egypt after his trial was again postponed on 6 March, for the thirteenth time, and is now supposed to take place on the 26th of June.<\/p>\n
\u201cIbrahim has now been detained without trial for more than 32 months, where he has increasingly faced inhumane and unacceptable treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are expressly clear grounds for Ibrahim\u2019s immediate release under Egyptian Law, the so-called Law 140.<\/p>\n
\u201cI called on the Taoiseach to do more to ensure Ibrahim\u2019s release and to encourage other EU heads of State to lobby the Egyptian President for Ibrahim\u2019s immediate release under this law.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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