Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)

Will the Minister make a statement on the position in Bahrain in which there has been horrendous loss of life and hospitals have been taken over by Saudi soldiers who entered the country to repress the pro-democracy movement? It is not good enough that the Minister did not issue a much stronger statement condemning the role of the Saudi military. Have these events been allowed to happen because Saudi Arabia is an oil rich country?

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