Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

First of all, the Government has taken very strong action in respect of this. That is the international perception of Ireland, by the way, except in this House. It is probably one of the few places that does not acknowledge the range of actions the Government has taken, from the recognition of the Palestinian state to the intervention in the South African case under the Genocide Convention, from the very significant funding of UNRWA to the pursuit of an advisory opinion from the UN, both cosponsoring the resolution and intervening in the ICJ in that case and following up again with further co-sponsored resolutions at the UN and much more. The reality is, and we have to be brutally honest here, that Israel is not paying attention to international opinion.

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