Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The credibility of the US President in challenging lawless social violence in US cities is undermined when he has his own personal kill list, in violation of international law, to wipe out enemies elsewhere. Following the Newtown massacre, Mr. Obama asked, in his plea for gun control, if Americans were prepared to say that such violence visited on their children year after year was somehow the price of their freedom. It is a valid question and he should apply it to the violence he is imposing on the children of Pakistan.

Has the Government expressed its opposition to the illegal use of drones to Mr. Obama? Will the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade take up the baton on the international stage to work for a total ban on armed drones, which are causing such devastation, much in the same way as a Government in the past played a significant role in its efforts to ban land mines?

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