Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

Perhaps the Government Whip will indicate when he intends to provide time for a full debate on this matter. We should not wait for a religious-based civil war to emerge. Nor should we wait, because the European Union is inactive, to deal substantially with the impasse that has arisen in Palestine, including the occupied areas of Gaza, east Jerusalem and the West Bank. Quite frankly, I find these rulings to be absurd.

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