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

I welcome the decision of the Government, albeit belated, to concede to a debate on Gaza that we asked for. I object that the Government motion in this has only come out in the past 20 minutes or so and we have been given five minutes from now to put in amendments. This is completely unacceptable, especially given the failure of the Government to accede to the request of those concerned about Israel's genocide to actively and publicly support South Africa's action against Israel for genocide in Gaza.

I also express my concern about reports in the newspapers over recent days about comments made by the Ceann Comhairle to the effect that the left are somehow responsible for a rise in antisemitism. Those comments need to be clarified. It is completely baseless to suggest-----

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