356. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 22 February 2017, his views on the fact that the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, appears to have unilaterally changed these policies in order to provide confirmation to the government of China as to whether named human rights defenders, HRDs, would attend the Human Rights Council, thereby placing the HRDs and their associates based in China in danger; if the Irish delegation in Geneva will raise this issue with the High Commissioner to determine whether this practice is continuing and whether it has been expanded for other governments; and his plans to instruct the Irish delegation to raise the issue of retaliation against the Irish whistleblower in the OHCHR who reported this practice both internally and then directly to the Irish delegation in March 2016. [11787/17]

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356. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 22 February 2017, his views on the fact that the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, appears to have unilaterally changed these policies in order to provide confirmation to the government of China as to whether named human rights defenders, HRDs, would attend the Human Rights Council, thereby placing the HRDs and their associates based in China in danger; if the Irish delegation in Geneva will raise this issue with the High Commissioner to determine whether this practice is continuing and whether it has been expanded for other governments; and his plans to instruct the Irish delegation to raise the issue of retaliation against the Irish whistleblower in the OHCHR who reported this practice both internally and then directly to the Irish delegation in March 2016. [11787/17]

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1. 7 March 2017

   Human Rights

   356. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 22 February 2017, his views on the fact that the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, appears to have unilaterally changed these policies in order to provide confirmation to the government of China as to whether named human rights defenders, HRDs, would attend the Human Rights Council, thereby placing the HRDs and their associates based in China in danger; if the Irish delegation in Geneva will raise this issue with the High Commissioner to determine whether this practice is continuing and whether it has been expanded for other governments; and his plans to instruct the Irish delegation to raise the issue of retaliation against the Irish whistleblower in the OHCHR who reported this practice both internally and then directly to the Irish delegation in March 2016. [11787/17]

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