Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am entitled to respond also and say that I think Senator Ó Donnghaile is playing a double game here. When he goes to the United States and engages with United States Senators and Congress people, I rarely hear, in any press release afterwards, any commentary whatsoever about Palestine. The Senator's party tends to reserve it for the Irish Government all of the time, or certain parties within the Oireachtas. Suffice to say - and these are my final comments - Ireland has been consistent. Successive Governments have been. Most people recognise that internationally. There are certain issues which one has to calibrate, when one deploys certain policies or approaches to it. That is all I would say, and we can respectfully differ on that.

Fundamentally, international accountability is before the international courts, and international fora which specialise in accountability, which have expertise in respect of accountability built up through the years, and which are supported and recognised by the international community under various agencies. That is, ultimately, accountability. I do not subjectively decide on international accountability.