Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Ireland is doing everything it can within its diplomatic and political capacities, particularly, as I said earlier, in multilateral fora such as the United Nations Security Council, where we have consistently raised these issues. Our position was most recently reiterated on 19 December at the meeting of the UN Security Council which focused on the issue of Israeli settlements, and we were key to getting that on the agenda. Our position is very clear: fundamentally, we believe in the two-state solution, as this House does. These settlements militate against the creation of a two-state solution and jeopardise and imperil any prospect of a two-state solution, and I want to be very clear about that. There is not unanimity or anything near unanimity of views across the EU 27, unfortunately. However, we work with like-minded EU member states to consistently raise the issue and to do what we can, through our funding programmes and through our diplomatic and political channels, to work with the Palestinian Authority to keep these issues alive.

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