Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

It is important that the international legal requirements of the situation are respected. What the Minister and I are concentrating on, and what the people of Ireland will expect us to concentrate on in this instance, is representing our citizens unambiguously and forcefully based on the situation in which they now find themselves. I believe that Israel would be best advised, in the interests of standing and of resolving this aspect of the matter, to immediately arrange for their unconditional release and to accede to an international inquiry given the seriousness of the outcome of what has happened there.

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