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Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Motion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...That Dáil Éireann" and to substitute with the following: "— expresses horror at the indiscriminate killing and targeting of civilians in the current terrible escalation of violence between Israel and the Palestinians; — condemns as an atrocity and war crime the bombing of the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza city which has claimed the lives of at least 500...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The ambassador said he was still hopeful that there could be some chance of a two-state solution and a negotiated settlement with Israel, but also hinted that hope was running out in that regard. Why does the ambassador have any hope that Israel is serious about the two-state solution or has any interest in a peaceful solution? A large number of people think Israel has shown nothing but...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The conditions for Palestinians under Israeli occupation are horrendous at any time but the fact that last Tuesday week Israel carried out, in the midst of a pandemic, the biggest demolition of homes of Palestinian families, 11 in number, making 80 people homeless including 41 children, is truly shocking. The pictures show the demolitions destroying water containers, farm equipment, solar...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach rejected our call, and the call of huge numbers of people across the world, to boycott Joe Biden because of his complicity with the genocidal massacre that Israel is committing and the fact that he has armed Israel to the teeth and enabled it to commit that massacre. Did the Taoiseach ask him to stop arming Israel? Mary Robinson echoed the calls of millions of people...

Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (2 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel cannot be believed. That is the point. I do not understand how the Minister believes Israel when it states that it disregards the guidelines in the agreement. In the Dáil the other day, we listened to an Israeli soldier who is a member of Breaking the Silence. This is a large organisation of Israeli soldiers that has produced a book entitled Our Harsh Logic. The Tánaiste...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... The Taoiseach is planning to further involve us with this organisation, which represents those who make profits from producing weapons that are sold to, among other places, countries like Israel to murder Palestinians. Not only do European governments not sanction Israel for its murderous activities, as we have seen in Jenin on an ongoing basis - day in, day out - but also European...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes: — that long before the current horrific escalation of violence by Israel in Gaza and increasingly in the West Bank, multiple human rights organisations had issued damning reports stating that Israelwas guilty of multiple breaches of international law and crimes against humanity in their treatment of Palestinians; — in that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...thousands of people assembling in Parnell Square this Saturday at 1 p.m. to march in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Palestine as they face the horror being inflicted on them by the State of Israel. I will ask the Minister one of the questions they are going to be asking this Saturday. How many Palestinians does Israel have to massacre, how many atrocities does it have to commit...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...was positive to visit our troops. There is no doubt about their bravery and the importance of the work they do, but we really have to up the ante in our political criticism and questioning of what Israel is doing. As mentioned, there are many child prisoners, including Ahed Tamimi, while illegal settlement continues. Also to be considered is the strangulation of Gaza and the appalling...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Over the past number of weeks, I and others have raised the designation of six human rights organisations and NGOs, including quite a number that receive funding from the EU, as terrorists by Israel. I am sure the Taoiseach has received representations from various Palestinian groups and others on this as well. This is clearly an attempt to, essentially, make illegal any organisation that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a simple question for the Taoiseach. How many innocent Palestinian civilians - men, women and children - does Israel have to slaughter, how many war crimes does Israel have to commit, and how much death and destruction does Israel have to visit on the people of Gaza and Palestine before the Taoiseach will call for and impose sanctions on Israel, expel the Israeli ambassador from this...

Other Questions: Middle East Issues (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The murder of 58 unarmed Palestinian protesters yesterday by Israel was cold-blooded premeditated murder. It was not an overreaction or an ad hocresponse. It was premeditated. In the face of premeditated executions by Israel, does the Minister not think it is incumbent on this country and the European Union to impose sanctions which would actually impact on Israel to stop this slaughter?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On 22 November, we tabled a motion calling on the Government to instigate action under the genocide convention over Israel's genocide in Gaza. The Government voted that down. At that point, 14,000 people had been murdered by Israel. To date, approximately 24,000 people have been murdered by Israel. Another 6,000 to 7,000 are buried under the rubble and 2 million people have been...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Government or any of the Opposition parties but it is very much in line with the view of the overwhelming majority of Palestinians. What it attempts to convey is the truth about the nature of the Israeli regime, which is not a legitimate actor or a normal state. It is a terrorist state and an apartheid state. It is a state that has been built from its inception, on the day in, day out...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As well as the issue of Israel's abhorrent treatment of Palestinian children as described by Deputy McDonald, whose question I echo about what the Government will do to raise this ongoing and systematic denial of rights to children in breach of every sort of international law and standard, I wish to ask about what the Government is going to do to raise its voice and demand that the EU take...

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has indicated there may be war crimes being committed by Israel in Gaza. Most people have no doubt they are being committed because they are happening right in front of us and, critically, Israel is not hiding it. Leading ministers and military personnel have publicly declared their intention to commit war crimes - to starve the entire population of water, food, gas and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question concerns double standards when it comes to the way Europe deals with the situation faced by Palestinians, and the people of Gaza in particular, in the wake of the recent assault by Israel on Gaza. I would like the Taoiseach to explain how on earth the EU can continue to confer trade privileges and effective associate EU membership on Israel, contribute €840 million in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What scale of atrocity does Israel have to commit to trigger EU sanctions against it? I ask this in all seriousness. Israel has favoured trade status from the European Union with the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Effectively, we treat it as an associate member of the European Union, yet it massacred 58 people yesterday. It killed another 45 or 46 over the past six weeks. Six weeks...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Union is gone. It has been trashed. Everyone can see it. The European Union rushed to impose sanctions on Russia for an illegal invasion and murderous assault and stands by and either supports Israel in its actions, continues to arm it and trade with it or, at best, utters words of criticism but says there is nothing we can do while the slaughter continues. That is shameful. Yes,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the ambassador should be expelled from the country. This has nothing to do with him personally, rather it concern the policies of his state. Like Desmond Tutu, I think the time for treating Israel as a normal state is over because it is not behaving as a normal state. I want to ask the ambassador questions about that contention. For the record, it is certainly not motivated by...