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

Last November, we introduced a motion calling on the Government to instigate action for genocide against Israel. The Government voted against it. In October last year, we introduced a motion asking the Government to put sanctions on Israel as it commenced that genocide. The Government voted against it. Before any of this started, we asked the Government to publicly support the demands of Amnesty International in calling for targeted sanctions against Israel for illegal occupation and apartheid. It refused to do it. The Government has been dragged kicking and screaming all the way. It has blocked the occupied territories Bill since 2018 and now, because there are tens of thousands of people on the streets and we see genocide unfold in front of our eyes, it is thinking about looking again at the occupied territories Bill. However, it continues to allow the US military to go through Shannon when the US Government is arming the Israeli state to commit genocide. Under the Genocide Convention, as I pointed out to the Taoiseach and his Government last November, we are obliged as signatories to do everything in our power to deter even the possibility of a genocide. The Government has not done anything to try to deter the possibility. That is why the Genocide Convention was developed after the Holocaust. We have done nothing to discharge our obligations to deter a genocide when weapons are going through Irish airspace to commit that genocide and a military machine up to its neck in Israel's genocidal crimes is using our airports. When is the Government going to do something about any of these things?

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