Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South-Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is vitally important the international community uses every lever possible to put pressure on for the resumption of the ceasefire, to stop the hostilities, and for the release of the hostages.

I suppose we are back to this issue time and again. Unfortunately, we are back to dealing with the consequences of the Israeli Government feeling as if it can act with impunity. That is why the occupied territories Bill matters. It is about ensuring international law applies. Too often the Israeli Government is flouting international law very significantly, obviously in Gaza and the West Bank currently. Time and again the position of the Government seems to have been that these are issues of technical difficulties and so on. That seems to have ultimately disappeared. It now seems the Government has changed its position in terms of substance and no longer believes it is necessary to ban services. Whatever of that, and we can discuss this more, commitments were given - or so it was reported - to groups in the United States that this Bill has been shelved . What is the timescale for the progress of the Government Bill? The Bill that is already on the Order Paper should be proceeded with. What is the timescale we have?

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