Réada Cronin (Kildare North, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I take this opportunity to salute the students at Trinity College for protesting and for rejecting the genocide that is going on in Gaza. This type of protest is really worrying governments, as well it might. It should worry the professors as well who are giving out about the students. It is the students who are giving a bit of learning to the professors. They hit Trinity College where it hurt. They hit it in the purse by blocking people from getting to see the Book of Kells. That is where we should be hitting Israel as well. Will the Tánaiste indicate in his supplementary answer what is happening with the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill? The students have given us a lesson in how to do it. In less than a week, they managed to get Trinity College to divest its Israeli investments. We should be divesting from Israel as well. The success of the Trinity College students really exposed the privileged naysayers who said we cannot act quickly. We can do so. The students won for humanity, for Palestine and for Europe as well. We are in a new political situation. The Tánaiste mentioned the hostages. We know Netanyahu does not care and never cared about the hostages. He is an opportunist. We should take the opportunity now to make sure we hit Israel where it hurts.

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