Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Why would the Tánaiste's Department have any sort of trade agreement with the state of Israel? In the last five years, the Tánaiste's Department has procured more than €6 million of Israeli defence equipment. Some of that is for dual use. Will the Tánaiste tell me - or give me a kind of an answer - as to why in the name of hell would this country want to do any sort of trade with the state of Israel? Over the past nine years the EU has exported €4 billion worth of armaments to Israel. These armaments are to kill and oppress Palestinians. Why would this State have any sort of dealings with a state that has killed some 5,500 children in the last six weeks? It is obnoxious. How can the Tánaiste stand over any trade deal with the state of Israel after it has done that?

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