Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Bring your amendments to the committee right now and let us go through each of them one by one. Let us get through Committee Stage today and bring it to the Dáil tomorrow. If the Tánaiste is to be trusted on any of this, he would be moving heaven and earth to make sure that we got to pass the Bill this week. The fact that he has not says to me that he cannot be trusted on this because his Government has not brought forward a single sanction against Israel despite multiple opportunities brought by the Opposition in which he could have taken some meaningful action, which he has not done. That is not to say we do not commend those actions which have been taken, because we have commended them when they have been taken. I have congratulated and thanked the Tánaiste when he has done the right thing. The problem is that every time he has done the right thing, it has taken years to bring him to that place and he has not done what we all know is required to force Israel to stop doing what it is doing, which is to make it pay a price with sanctions. That needs to happen.