Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

This evening, Mothers Against Genocide will hold a protest outside Government Buildings. I am sure they would be glad if the Taoiseach went out to talk to them. The particular focus of their protest this evening is these enormous dumb bombs that are being used by Israel in Gaza to blow the place to bits and have been provided by the United States. The protest will highlight the outrageous complicity of western Governments with the Israeli military machine that is committing genocide and using weapons utterly indiscriminately. Tonight's protest will seek to highlight how if a similar bomb was used on Kildare Street, it would blow the whole of Kildare Street and the Houses of the Oireachtas away and people would be hit with fragments of that bomb as far away as Grafton Street.

What it also highlights is a more general involvement, including on the part of this Government, where we continue to do business with a state that is committing these crimes. I have been reading reports recently about the fact that we have purchased millions of euro worth of drones, and provide money for the maintenance of these drones, and other military equipment from Elbit Systems and Aeronautics Defense Systems, both of which are Israeli companies deeply implicated in the military hardware used to kill Palestinians.

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