Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

The Minister cannot with any sincerity on the one hand condemn the loss of life, saying we are doing everything we can to push for a ceasefire, and then turn a blind eye to weapons travelling through Irish airspace against the law to be used by Israel to commit these war crimes. He cannot in all sincerity claim to be doing everything he is doing to secure a ceasefire while refusing to mention the one thing that enables Israel to do what it is doing, namely the tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons given to it by the US to commit these war crimes. He refuses to mention it and answer the question. Simon Harris should use his position at the UN to call for an end to those weapons, which facilitate the genocide happening and the assault on Israel.

The Minister did not answer the question as to whether any weapons currently being used against the people in Lebanon passed through Irish airspace. We know the same sort of explosives used in the pagers that blew up all across Lebanon, killing children, passed through Irish airspace. We do not know whether they were the exact same ones.

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