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

I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. The Taoiseach said the nominations of Deputies McGrath and Chambers to their new posts were about policies and not personalities. I agree, so I will focus on policy and not personality. First, it is extremely worrying that the discourse around Deputy McGrath's nomination to the European Commission is focused on the horse-trading going on in terms of support for Ursula von der Leyen to retain her post as President of the European Commission. This would be an outrageous price to pay for a senior portfolio in the European Commission. Ursula von der Leyen is complicit with genocide. She gave the green light to the horror Israel has committed and is continuing to commit in Gaza and she is undoubtedly one of the major blocks to the European Union imposing sanctions on Israel, especially to prevent the arms trade to that country that allows it to continue inflicting the horror it is visiting upon the Palestinian people.

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