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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do you think it is acceptable that Israel is holding our citizens hostage?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What credibility has the European Union for allowing citizens to be treated in that way?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what efforts he is making to assist Irish citizens or families with connections to this country who are seeking to escape Gaza and especially those who have contacted him seeking assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3349/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I handed the Tánaiste a letter this week from Zak Hania's wife. He is an Irish citizen trapped in Gaza and is not being allowed out by Israel. She is appealing to the Tánaiste to assist him. Two other Irish citizens contacted me who are also trapped. They are in effect being held hostage by Israel. I want to know what the Government is doing to try to get them out and what it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not think the Tánaiste should have gone to Israel. That is my view.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Once again, the Government is dancing around its obligations under the genocide convention. Forget about all the other stuff the Tánaiste said. This is about the genocide convention. In November, the Tánaiste was asked in the Dáil to discharge his obligations under the genocide convention, which requires that all signatories, as soon as they hear of the possibility of a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Jesus.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Jesus Christ.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hold Israel responsible for the violence we have seen. That is my view. From 1948 onward. It is not just me who is saying that. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and every decent Israeli historian, including Ilan Pappé - we could go through the list - acknowledges this. You can go through the list, about decades of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, illegal occupation,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is absolutely-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not dare say that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not dare say that I condone murder.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is absolutely disgraceful. You are complicit.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You are complicit with Israel's slaughter. You do not use the same strength of language when it comes to Israel's slaughter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It certainly is, and you would want to be careful.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just asked you to do something.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question was not due until 10.15 a.m.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make a public statement supporting the South African case against Israel for genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and advocate for Ireland to formally intervene in the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3348/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Once again, I appeal to the Tánaiste, as we have been doing since the middle of November, to publicly support the case that has now been taken by South Africa against Israel for the commission of genocide where there is overwhelming evidence that it is committing crimes that are considered to be genocidal under the genocide convention.

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 5: To delete "demands the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages held by Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza, and the cessation of indiscriminate rocket fire from Gaza into Israel;” and substitute with the following: "demands the immediate, unconditional and simultaneous release of all Palestinian internees/hostages held by Israel in addition to...