Results 1-19 of 19 for israel speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yesterday, the House agreed that Israel is acting illegally under international law. We have a window of opportunity to use the powerful lever of Horizon funding to pressure Israel to end its apartheid regime. The new Horizon fund, which is worth €95.5 billion, represents a chance to hold Israel to account in respect of what the House agreed yesterday is thede factoannexation of...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...not witnessing a war on Hamas, we are witnessing the indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinians, what the Minister of State has rightly described as collective punishment. The EU refusal to condemn Israel's actions is a failure of historic importance. The Taoiseach said yesterday that trade issues are a European competency. This is true, but as a member state we can and, morally, must...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Last Friday, the International Court of Justice made a historic ruling. It ordered Israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza. The court said Israel must stop killing Palestinians and causing serious physical and mental harm to them. Israel must also prevent its troops from committing genocide, prevent incitement to commit genocide, allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We should know whether the same companies that are supplying Israel with arms to carry out genocide are either able to receive or currently receiving subsidies from the EU? Is there anything that precludes companies that are supplying to Israel from availing of these subsidies that we contribute to?

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ..., however, about the use of the EU budget to subsidise the European arms industry. I oppose Irish taxpayers' money subsidising the arms industry. Most of all, I oppose Irish taxpayers' money subsidising companies that are arming Israel to carry out a genocide in Palestine. The European arms industry provides Israel with about one third of its weapons. When the EU budget is spent on...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: ..., I see a colonial outlook and values. Ireland has, so far, been a light in the very, very dark sky. This is not the time, however, to be patting ourselves on the back. Every day which goes by, Israel slaughters hundreds more Palestinians. I commend the Government for speaking up for the Palestinian people and for saying that there must be consequences for breaking international law....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Programmes (3 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 281. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will oppose or support the European Commission request for a negotiating mandate for an association agreement with Israel for Horizon Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30326/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Programmes (24 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland opposes Israel’s inclusion in the new Horizon Europe Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33923/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding (18 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the recently concluded agreement to include Israel in Horizon Europe until 2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56530/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is my understanding that the European arms industry provides Israel with about one third of its weapons. Would that be right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Are the same companies that are supplying Israel with arms to carry out genocide able to receive, or are they currently receiving, subsidies from the EU?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. I will take it that it is the case Irish taxpayers are subsidising companies that are arming Israel. Does anybody have anything to the contrary?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The witnesses cannot answer my question on the other part around whether subsidies are being received from the EU by companies that are supplying arms to Israel.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline any engagement he or his Department has had with EU High Representative Josep Borrell Fontelles, or his office, on the potential suspension of the EU-Israel trade association agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11145/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Agreements (15 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 667. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 277, 278, 279, 280 and 281 of 3 June 2021, if no European Council decision is required to approve Israel association with the Horizon Europe Regulation once negotiations are concluded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31439/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am not asking about specific companies. In all of the Commission's mechanisms, what is there to exclude companies that are supplying weapons to Israel from availing of EU funding to which Irish taxpayers are contributing? Rather than individual companies, what is there to make sure that it does not happen? Is there anything there to make sure it does not happen?

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...by conflict in 2022. That represented a 50% increase since 2017. Affected countries ranged from Congo to Ukraine to Palestine. Women suffer the harshest realities of war. In Palestine alone, Israel Defence Forces has murdered 8,400 women and 6,000 girls. That brutality continues every day for women, men and children in Gaza. Most countries in the world are united in opposition to...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...where the global structures and agreements that are meant to protect innocent people are. They have watched these structures and international agreements bend and sway to the ruthless objective of Israel to annihilate Palestinians. The document presented by South Africa to the International Court of Justice is absolutely heartbreaking to read. It includes harrowing accounts of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...for taxpayers’ money to go to any company that is producing cluster munitions and I oppose that. Most of all, I oppose any taxpayers’ money being used to subsidise the arms companies that are arming Israel. How much of Irish taxpayers’ money goes to subsidising the European arms industry through the European Defence Fund and the support of ammunition production?...