Dáil debates

Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions

Foreign Conflicts

5:45 pm

Photo of Clare DalyClare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We know that Saudi Arabia has been committing war crimes in Yemen since the start of its assault on that country. It has consistently and deliberately bombed civilian targets. Just as significant is the fact that Saudi Arabia has systemically used starvation as a weapon of war in Yemen, a tactic worthy of the Third Reich and one which it employed. Given that Ireland is exporting beef and baby formula to Saudi Arabia, a country that is enacting its own hunger plan on Yemen and actively and deliberately engaging in mass murder through the systemic starvation of a population, is it not about time that we called a halt and imposed a full trade and arms embargo?

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