Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The programme for Government includes a pledge to recognise the state of Palestine. The Tánaiste referred earlier to the recognition by the President of the United States of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and his declared intention to establish the US embassy there. Israel's claim that Jerusalem is the complete and united capital of its country is in violation of international law. I remind the Tánaiste that this Sunday, 10 December, is the third anniversary of the Dáil unanimously passing a motion to recognise the state of Palestine, with east Jerusalem as its capital. We have had complete inaction on that motion. Will the Tánaiste give us a date for when the Government will move to recognise the state of Palestine?

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