Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We can add to that list of breaches of international law the destruction and demolition of EU-funded aid structures, something which the Minister has spoken out against before. The risk is that if we say that annexation should not happen, then we start to ignore all these other things and that is a real risk. The Israeli Government, when making its choices, will look at what happened to it the last time it breached international law and it has been able to act with impunity. The best way we can prevent annexation is to uphold and give teeth to international law and to act, as we did with Russia, instead of just talking.

I ask, therefore, in the Minister's letter to the EU, along with other foreigner ministers, seeking legal actions that we can take, that we should also implement all the current responses to existing breaches of international law, and not just use them as a stick regarding annexation.

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