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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: All I was asking was-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: -----would the Tánaiste agree with the principle of coming before this committee on the future-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: Let me move on because I am sure the Leas-Chathaoirleach is eager to get me out of this position.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: The Tánaiste mentioned-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: No. I am conscious of that. That is why my questions are so-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: For sure. I am, however, nervous that I might not get to ask the next question, which is equally important. In terms of neutrality, because the Tánaiste mentioned at least twice that particular aspects of his remarks do not impinge on Irish neutrality. He stated that there is no suggestion of Ireland joining NATO as reinforcement that there is no threat to or question over our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: Is that the only tenet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: When the Tánaiste states that this does not breach Irish neutrality, he means the limits of that are we will not join NATO and we will not join a common defence pact. Outside of that, anything is possible within the confines of neutrality. There is scope for a much wider debate but I want to talk about the situation in the Middle East. I thank the Tánaiste and Government for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: Does the Tánaiste intend to inform the House or the media first?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: Let me rephrase that. Does the Government intend to inform the House or the media first?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: Will that be on the day?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: It will be an historically important moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: That moment belongs to a number of current and past Members on all sides of the House who have worked for far too long to bring it to this point. As I have said, time and again, I fear that the moment of our recognition of the state of Palestine will occur at a time when the prospect of a viable sovereign state is at its weakest ebb in many years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: Presuming it will not happen before the Wednesday next, we have a ten-day window. It would be helpful if there was engagement across all sides of the House.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: There is growing speculation and fear. We are talking about a ground invasion of Rafah with trepidation as to what that could mean. However, it is important to contextualise that Rafah is currently under attack. The situation and the scenes there are beyond imagining. I looked back at the transcript from October when the Tánaiste was last before the committee, and I suggest that he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: That is fair enough. I am conscious of the time so I want to ask the following. The difficulty with everything that the Tánaiste has said is that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: In the context of the question I have asked the Tánaiste about Rafah and the intensification of activities, can we not outline a single consequence for Israel for proceeding along that basis? That is my final question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: Is it not correct that there are a number of ongoing UN peacekeeping missions that Ireland does not have deployments to?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: North-South Interconnector (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: 70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on his engagements with EirGrid at which he has received an update on the North-South Interconnector. [21466/24]