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

Did the Taoiseach discuss with Donald Tusk the fact the European Union's credibility is in absolute shreds because of the blatant double standards that are being displayed between its attitude toward legitimate resistance by the Ukrainian people against the brutal Russian invasion and the wholly different attitude to Palestinian people resisting a brutal, genocidal assault on Gaza and decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing and illegal occupation? Did he discuss that it is tearing apart any credibility the European Union has in the eyes of a whole generation of people when they see the shocking blatant double standards, and the fact that major European powers are arming this genocide and justifying and legitimising Israel's crimes and providing it with impunity? That is the big political picture, and anybody as committed as the Taoiseach and Donald Tusk are to the European project should seriously ask how it is going to sustain any credibility in the tooth of that.

On a humanitarian level, there are paediatricians outside the House, who are trying to get children out of Gaza. They have the children and their names. Some of them are already in Cairo. Their request is whether we can talk to the Egyptian Government to get the ten children out of Cairo. Is there a possibility these paediatricians can get into Gaza to access other children who have visas and supports waiting for them but who cannot physically get out of Gaza?

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