Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I concur on the point about all the questions being grouped together. It is reasonable enough to group questions on EU summits although they may have different aspects, but this group contains quite distinct issues and it does not make much sense to group them.

Given that the discussion has focused on the victims of conflict and violence, the point about truth and reconciliation and giving all victims on all sides the opportunity to speak out and get justice is right. This is what we should do. It is important for politicians of all varieties, and not only those who are directly involved in the conflict, to recognise that war and conflict break out when politics and the political authorities fail. We all bear a responsibility when this happens. The Taoiseach recounted genuinely moving meetings and the terrible trauma that families and victims have suffered. In this context I ask genuinely in the spirit of trying to work together out of concern about such terrible things happening that the Taoiseach show urgent concern about the same appalling things happening to young children, women and families in Gaza at present and raise it with the political authorities in Britain-----

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