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Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Thousands of people will be outside the Dáil tonight asking the Government to finally discharge its responsibilities under the genocide convention to prevent the commission of an ongoing genocide. It is a matter of shame that as a former colony that was a victim of colonialism, of apartheid laws such as the penal laws, and of brutal suppression of our attempts to assert our...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The children's disability network teams are sometimes made up of staff who are HSE employees and other times involve workers from Enable Ireland. The latter are section 39 workers and are on lesser pay and conditions than the former. There is a big impact as a consequence of that because teams that are staffed by section 39 workers are having much more difficulty in recruiting people as a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are doing the same job.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What are we going to do about it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also repeat the issue about the film workers. Over the new year the WRC issued an absolutely damning ruling on the treatment of 38 members of the Irish Film Workers’ Association and established they had been blacklisted by Metropolitan Films International, which is probably the biggest recipient of section 481, and that their rights under the fixed-term workers legislation had been...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the December European Union Council meeting. [2805/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I first raised with the Taoiseach in Taoiseach's Questions in the middle of November the Government's responsibility and obligations under the Genocide Convention. I have repeatedly raised it with him since and tried to explain it to him in multiple interventions, including in a Dáil motion in November. We are still discussing motions, and did so again this week, but the Government is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the point of the convention then?

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Thousands of people will gather outside the Dáil at 5.30 this evening to express their absolute outrage and fury at the genocidal massacre Israel is inflicting on the people of Gaza as we speak, blowing children, mothers and innocent civilians to bits, blowing up residential buildings, schools, hospitals, churches and mosques, starving the people of water, food and electricity, and...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 5: To delete "demands the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages held by Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza, and the cessation of indiscriminate rocket fire from Gaza into Israel;” and substitute with the following: "demands the immediate, unconditional and simultaneous release of all Palestinian internees/hostages held by Israel in addition to...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 6: To delete "strongly consider an intervention in the South Africa v Israel case at the ICJ, as a matter of urgency after the Court has made its order on preliminary measures and the filing by South Africa of its memorial in the case, which is the only appropriate process to do so and following the necessary legal and policy analysis;" and substitute the following: ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question was not due until 10.15 a.m.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make a public statement supporting the South African case against Israel for genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and advocate for Ireland to formally intervene in the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3348/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Once again, I appeal to the Tánaiste, as we have been doing since the middle of November, to publicly support the case that has now been taken by South Africa against Israel for the commission of genocide where there is overwhelming evidence that it is committing crimes that are considered to be genocidal under the genocide convention.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Once again, the Government is dancing around its obligations under the genocide convention. Forget about all the other stuff the Tánaiste said. This is about the genocide convention. In November, the Tánaiste was asked in the Dáil to discharge his obligations under the genocide convention, which requires that all signatories, as soon as they hear of the possibility of a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Jesus.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Jesus Christ.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hold Israel responsible for the violence we have seen. That is my view. From 1948 onward. It is not just me who is saying that. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and every decent Israeli historian, including Ilan Pappé - we could go through the list - acknowledges this. You can go through the list, about decades of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, illegal occupation,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is absolutely-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not dare say that.