Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I would first make it crystal clear that while the litany of abuse against the Palestinian people is decades long, shocking and horrible, there is no excuse whatever for the wanton murder carried out by Hamas on 7 October.

My question is directly in relation to the provisional measures that will hopefully be announced tomorrow. One of the calls relating to those measures relates to an immediate ceasefire. If the provisional measures include a legal demand for a ceasefire from the International Court of Justice, what, in the context of international sanctions, will be the response of the Irish Government, the European Union and the world community to ensure that such a ceasefire comes to pass? Will the court's direction simply be ignored by Israel with the impunity it believes has been bestowed on it by the world community to do exactly as it wishes?

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