Results 1-20 of 36 for israel speaker:Mick Barry

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: Yesterday, the Taoiseach took umbrage when I said I thought he was washing his hands on the issue of the genocide in Gaza. To be clear, the Government has made strong criticisms of the Israeli Government and it voted the right way at the United Nations but Israel has ignored that United Nations vote so more must now be done. However, the Government is not doing more. Action must be taken...

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: The ruling classes and governments of the world have almost without exception either supported Israel's war or limited criticism to mere words. Because of this, Palestinian trade unionists made the following appeal, "[We] call on our counterparts internationally and all people of conscience to end all forms of complicity with Israel’s crimes - most urgently halting the arms trade with...

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

Mick Barry: The Israeli ambassador has been expelled from Colombia; the Israeli ambassador should be expelled from Ireland too. Some 15,000 people across this island marched in protest last weekend. Let us see 150,000 this weekend. The Dunnes Stores workers boycotted apartheid goods from South Africa in the 1980s. Any Irish worker who boycotts goods from apartheid Israel during this invasion must...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2021)

Mick Barry: ...oppressed people and have a right to organise their self-defence, including armed self-defence. They have the right to fight for their own national and social liberation. The firing of rockets into Israel by Hamas is something that I do not support. It has resulted in the deaths of seven people, including a five-year-old boy. It is futile and counter-productive. I have no truck with...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jan 2019)

Mick Barry: The Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill is to be considered in the Dáil this afternoon. If passed, it would have the effect of banning the importation of goods produced in Israeli settlements on Palestinian lands already condemned as illegal by both the United Nations and the European Union. It is an important and modest Bill. I want to ask about an issue related...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: The Israeli war cabinet minister, Yoav Gallant, recently said, "There will be a short pause and then we will continue operating with full military power." He also said, "Our strength will be greater, and it will take place throughout the entire strip.” Interesting that he referred to "the entire strip" because Israel has forced huge numbers of people to leave northern Gaza and go to...

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy Report: Statements (22 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: ...so-called neutrality debate. While the Tánaiste had hoped that a stacked consultative forum would nudge public opinion towards support for closer military co-operation with EU powers and NATO, Israel's war has, I strongly suspect, moved public opinion in the opposite direction entirely. Not only will that war provoke opposition to militarism but also a profound distrust of...

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (26 May 2016)

Mick Barry: ...that is very concerning in respect of the health and safety of this man and others who share his views. On 28 March 2016, an anti-BDS conference was held in Jerusalem at which a number of Israeli Government Ministers spoke, including Yisrael Katz, Minister of Transportation and Road Safety and Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy, who called on Israel to engage in targeted civil...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: ...in the form of activism from young people in particular. To the best of my knowledge, there was no such thing as an Oireachtas friends of South Africa group in the 1980s, but an Oireachtas Friends of Israel group was apparently revived in February 2022, the same month that an Amnesty International report concluded that Israel is an apartheid state. Should the Deputy who revived that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: Last week, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel has a case to answer on a charge of genocide. Who is the individual, outside of Israel itself, who has by far the greatest responsibility for funding and arming that Israeli assault? It is the man the Taoiseach intends to hand a bowl of shamrock on 17 March - President Joe Biden. Will his hand tremble when he hands over that...

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

Mick Barry: ...far was a tweet from Dr. Panti Bliss-Cabrera: I keep thinking about only a couple months ago and all the fury and outrage and furious tweeting and angry articles provoked by *any* suggestion that Israel had bombed a single hospital - and then Israel went ahead and openly bombed *every* hospital. She put the word "every" in inverted commas but meant virtually every hospital. The press...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: ...step away from starvation. Hundreds of those people gathered in Gaza city last Thursday morning before dawn. As they moved towards aid trucks that were carrying flour, they were gunned down by Israeli soldiers. Some 115 people died and more than 700 were injured. It was a massacre. The Israel Defense Forces, IDF, said that the majority were killed in a stampede and died under the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Middle East Issues (27 Jun 2018)

Mick Barry: Will the Tánaiste report on his recent visit to the Middle East, specifically on his meeting with the Prime Minister of Israel? Were the recent attacks against the Palestinian people discussed at that meeting?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Middle East (14 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will take measures to ensure that no arms are transported to Israel through Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49508/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Middle East (14 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: 166. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of licences for dual use items issued for trade with Israel in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49502/23]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jan 2019)

Mick Barry: Military and dual-use hardware worth more than €6 million was sold to Israel since 2011. In the context of 9,000 Palestinians, including more than 2,000 children, having been killed by the Israeli State since 2000, what plans does the Government have, given the human rights commitments, to introduce legislation and deal with this issue?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2021)

Mick Barry: ...on from the mass expulsion of Palestinians in east Jerusalem, which amounted to ethnic cleansing, the brutal assault on the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the far-right lynch mobs now roaming the streets of Israeli cities looking for Palestinians to attack. We have a situation where young people in Gaza, where 50% of the population is under the age of 18, have now experienced four military assaults...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Foreign Conflicts (28 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: ...and Sport how many exemption orders for the transport of munitions of war have been granted in each of the last 10 years; how many exemption orders have been issued for munitions destined for Israel in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52117/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2024)

Mick Barry: ..., in other words, by the US and European Union imperialism first and foremost. That is a formula for a Palestinian Bantustan, not national liberation. There needs to be an end to the genocidal Israeli capitalist regime. It is a barrier to Palestinian liberation that needs to be dismantled. A struggle by the mass of the Palestinians allied with working people in this region is key to...

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

Mick Barry: I wish to start by making some comments about the so-called humanitarian pause. Before going into the Israeli cabinet meeting last night, Benjamin Netanyahu said: We are at war, and we will continue the war. We will continue until we achieve all our goals. It is clear that in the minds of Netanyahu and the Israeli cabinet, this is a short-term pause and when it is over, the killing...