Dáil debates
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
European Union Directive: Motion
5:15 pm
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source
They are the good guys. That must be it. When they bomb people to bits and kill a million people in Iraq, it is different because they are the good guys. When European countries arm the Saudi dictatorship so that it can carry on a war over exactly the same period of time as Putin has been at war with Ukraine, we say not a word. There are no sanctions and we continue to trade and have meetings with it. There is not even talk of sanctions. Apparently, we need consistency according to this resolution.
To me, it is the biggest load of hypocrisy I have heard in my life. When there is a bit of moral consistency, maybe we could take this stuff seriously.
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