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

The world is rightly expressing its utter outrage and revulsion at the despotism and warmongering of Vladimir Putin in Ukraine. I have asked at the Business Committee for the Government to facilitate a debate as a matter of urgency on a crisis every bit as horrific, involving Saudi Arabia and Yemen, where the UN recently reported there are now 13 million people on the brink of starvation. This is a war where Saudi Arabia is armed to the teeth by Britain and France and their lives count every bit as much. We need to discuss that crisis, which is reaching horrifying proportions, and decide whether we are going to take action against the Saudi Government. The Tánaiste led a trade mission there in November and it has been reported that he did not even raise human rights issues. I do not know if that is true but it is something that needs to be discussed because what is happening in Yemen is absolutely horrific.

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