Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)

I was in Gaza in 2009 when Israel bombed a whole lot of areas there, killing 1,400 people, including 400 children. I visited four weeks after that bombing took place. They used the changeover period between American Presidents, from 27 December 2008 until 18 January 2009, to go in, carry out that bombing and kill innocent people. That was 15 years ago. If action was taken by the international community at that stage, we now would not have the problem we have now. The international community sat back and did nothing. There was another outbreak in 2012. If Europe does not prepare, what we are now seeing in Gaza will happen in countries in Europe. That is the real world we are in.