Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Further to that, a related matter is the services provided by Ireland to the Israel Defense Forces. Since 2018, six members of the IDF have trained at the United Nations Training School Ireland or under NATO's Partnership for Peace. It is abhorrent that Ireland has facilitated the training of members of the IDF over the past 13 years, throughout which Palestinians were subjected to brutal oppression and onslaughts by the IDF. Almost as a sick joke, these courses included one on the international protection of civilians and another on international military relations. We have seen starkly over recent months what civilian relations mean to IDF personnel. We saw it previously during the Great March of Return years, which happened around the same time this training took place.

It is welcome that the Tánaiste has confirmed no such training will take place this year, but will he confirm to the Dáil that it is now Government policy that no such training with the IDF will take place in the future?

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