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

I ask once again for the Government to allow time for a debate on the disastrous situation and war in Yemen. The Government rightly has moved heaven and earth to debate and set out a response to the disastrous situation in Ukraine but it is stubbornly resistant to discussing the war in Yemen that has claimed more than 300,000 lives and brought 14 million people to the brink of starvation. Does the Government not want this debate because it has trade relations with Saudi Arabia and because the US and the UK are arming the Saudi regime? Is that why it does not want the debate? If that is not the case, will it please allow for a debate on this crisis?

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