The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs says he is increasingly concerned about the four Halawa siblings from Dublin who have been detained in Cairo since August.
Eamon Gilmore says he intends raising the issue at a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg today.
Speaking on his way in to the meeting the Tanaiste said he has concerns about the use of violence by the Egyptian military.
In particular he said it is not appropriate to hold people in custody and continually extend their period of detention without bringing any charges.
The four siblings from Firhouse in Dublin have been missing since taking refuge in a mosque in Cairo during violence there in mid-August.
The four have also previously met a Turkish diplomat who was visiting another person in their prison.
Group of people from both Ireland and Egypt have held protests outside the Egyptian embassy in Dublin calling for their release.
Omaima Halawa (20), her two sisters Fatima, (22), Somaia, (27), and their younger brother Ibrihim (17), were among hundreds of people cleared out of the al-Fath mosque when security forces stormed the building.
