Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)
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I am not so sure but I appreciate the Commissioner's honesty which is often lacking from the Irish Government in this respect about the direction in which Europe is going.

The Commissioner is aware that in the past MFF, in this MFF, hundreds of millions of euros through defence security research spending has ended up with Israeli corporations such as Elbit and other Israeli armament companies, the same companies that are involved in, for example, the construction of the apartheid wall around the West Bank and are involved in the creation of drones used against the Palestinian people. Does the Commissioner agree that no European citizen's money, even if it is under the guise of dual-use, which is how this money ends up with Israeli armaments companies - I am against this direction the Commission is going in any case - should end up with Israeli armaments companies? Surely that is a bottom line, given their flouting of international law and given their oppression of Palestinians.