Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Earlier, I asked the Taoiseach about our obligations under the genocide convention. He claimed that it is only for one of the state parties affected to invoke it. This is just misleading the House. Under the genocide convention, to which Ireland, all the other EU states, the United States and, indeed, Israel, for that matter, have signed up, all have a responsibility to protect against and prevent genocide. Then we have every leading genocide scholar and scholars of the Holocaust saying genocide is taking place. We can see it in front of us. The Israeli Government's leaders have said they intended to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza. They have done so. Then they massacred people in southern Gaza. They prevented Palestinians from moving from Khan Younis. The Israelis have said they are going to starve the entire population of food and electricity. All these things are crimes under the genocide convention, and we do nothing. Is the Taoiseach honestly telling me that our responsibilities under the genocide convention are to lament it years later but to do nothing while genocide is happening in front of our eyes?

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