Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the fact that the Taoiseach has called for the suspension of the agreement. That is progress. There are many things we could have done up to now but we did not; we stood idly by. We are out of keeping with people on the ground in Ireland, who are crying out for leadership and saying, "Please do not do this in my name". I would like to have raised the issue of the hospital in Galway today, but I know the people of Galway will forgive me because they have expressed over and over that what is happening in our name in Palestine by the Israeli army and the government is simply intolerable.

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