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

My assertions amounted to a request that all Government Ministers clarify the full interactions they have had with Israeli Government Ministers and state officials. You did not answer whether that would be forthcoming. You set out very clearly and rightly the realities of Israeli actions in both Palestine and Lebanon, but you did not set out any consequences for those actions. I have no doubt that there are many within the international community who are very grateful for the positions Ireland has taken. I am very glad that Ireland speaks out against a grievous record of atrocities on the part of the Israeli State against the Palestinian people. I make no apologies for saying we must go further. There has to be consequences. The reason Israel continues to do what it is doing is because it has faced not a single consequence for the unrelenting and unmitigated murder of children, women and innocent men across many, many years. My question, as a leader of a party that ran public meetings up and down this State encouraging support for the enactment of the occupied territories Bill, now that you are in the position you are in, if you will ensure that your Government does that now; not tomorrow, next week, or next year when countless more innocent people will have been killed, but now.

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