Results 2,241-2,260 of 10,789 for speaker:Matt Carthy

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: When that does not happen, somebody must be held to account. When riots erupted, the Minister allowed gardaí to be sent out unprepared and under-resourced. We all saw the footage of gardaí isolated trying to fend off attackers.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: They deserve better than that. That is a political failure and that failure is on the Minister. In the immediate aftermath of those failures-----

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: -----the Minister tried to tell us that control was not lost in the city, just as for months before that, she had told us that Dublin city centre was safe. No amount of mud-slinging by the Government will take away from the facts of its failure. There are fewer gardaí on our streets and fewer Garda stations in our communities than there were when Fine Gael came to power 12 year ago.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: Coupled with that, the Government has fundamentally changed how our communities are policed. When I was growing up, everyone knew the local gardaí and the local gardaí knew everyone.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: People felt safer.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: That is no longer the case. The population has increased and our towns have grown. In response, Fine Gael has closed Garda stations and reduced Garda numbers. Its members do not like to hear it but those are the facts. It cannot continue. We called on the Minister to resign; she did not do so. We cannot continue with a Minister for Justice who has allowed our communities to feel...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: -----and he did not do so.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: The Government may not like to be reminded of its failures but we will keep reminding it. It may not like to be held to account but we will hold it accountable. It may refuse to listen to our communities and their concerns for public safety-----

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: -----but we are listening and they are telling us they have no confidence in this Government and this Minister for Justice. The Government may look down on us but we will not let you look down on-----

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Programmes (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: 110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has been informed of a proposal by the European Commission to establish a programme modelled on the U.S. Foreign Military Sales (FMS) scheme, to support the EU arms industry; if he intends to oppose the establishment of such a programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53236/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: 120. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to the Department’s correspondence to the Oireachtas Committee of Public Accounts on 16 July 2021 (details supplied), the total compensation sought by the West Bank Protection Consortium from Israel to date; the amount received; if payment was not received, if the Irish Government sought to ensure that payment was received...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: 121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland sought for the European Union to make renewal of the EU-Israel Association Agreement contingent upon Israeli payment of compensation sought to the West Bank Protection Consortium; if such a payment was sought and if so, the amount received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53454/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: 122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the humanitarian assistance Ireland has provided to the people of Gaza during the temporary ceasefire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53460/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: 123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the humanitarian assistance that Ireland has provided to the people of Gaza in coordination with the European Union during the temporary ceasefire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53461/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: 124. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland or the European Union have provided field hospitals to alleviate the humanitarian situation in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53462/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: 125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland or the European Union have provided humanitarian assistance in the form of Civil Defence equipment to the people of Gaza to assist rescuing the estimated 6,000 Palestinians trapped under rubble; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53463/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: 126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in light of statements from Israel’s Heritage Minister that the dropping of a nuclear bomb on Gaza was ‘one of the possibilities’ with regard to Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza, whether or not it is the position of the Irish Government that the state of Israel possesses nuclear weapons; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: 127. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his response to the reprimand of the Irish ambassador to Israel in response to a social media post by An Taoiseach; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53477/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: 128. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, in light of an announced rebuke of the Irish ambassador, if his Government has reconsidered the actions of the Deputy Head of Mission of the Israeli mission in Ireland, who levelled accusations against the Irish Government of funding Hamas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53478/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: 129. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he has taken in response to the forced displacement of Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank; the increased funding announced for illegal Israeli settlement construction and expansion in the West Bank, described by the High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Policy as a breach of international humanitarian...