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

I acknowledge what the Tánaiste says. I acknowledge that Ireland has done more than the rest of the European Union in calling out what Israel has been doing, and not only in the past six months. If you go to the Middle East, you will find that people from Palestine are very generous in their comments on what the Irish people have done and the empathy we have shown, but we have not done enough. A good example is the occupied territories Bill, which the Tánaiste's party supported in the previous Dáil. Now it does not support it. Can the Tánaiste imagine what would be the position if that Bill was enacted? Can he imagine if, as a small country in the European Union, we were to say that from here on, any goods coming from the occupied West Bank or Gaza will be illegal? Can he imagine what signal that would send? It would send a huge signal not only to Zionist Israel but across the world that Ireland, as a country, will do more than has been done in the past five or six decades.

We need to do more. We cannot let this barbarity go on. Israel needs to be called to account for the barbarity it is inflicting on the Palestinian people.

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