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Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: National cybersecurity is based in the Department with responsibility for communications. The Minister will find that in Israel, for example, the director of national cybersecurity is in the office of the prime minister. Most directors elsewhere are at government level and not subject to some department's oversight. They work directly for the prime minister. We really need to look at our...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (13 Dec 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...actions, including through my conversations with EU counterparts and with regional partners, while actively supporting the resilience of Palestinians living under threat. Ireland has called on Israel to take genuine measures to protect the Palestinian population from terror attacks by settlers. I have also raised the issue of demolition and confiscation of humanitarian aid and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Change Negotiations (12 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...8,000 children, 1 million in danger of starvation and 1.9 million displaced. The European Union and many of its leaders have been absolutely disgraceful in what they are doing to provide cover for Israel. I do not know how America or any other county could stand over a veto on a ceasefire. We need to make sure that we work, like we did with that letter, with those who are willing, and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (12 Dec 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Leo Varadkar: ...I outlined the Government's work including the establishment of the child poverty and well-being programme in my Department to co-ordinate efforts in government. We discussed the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories, the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, and our shared climate objectives. I also updated the council on my recent EU and international engagements...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Leo Varadkar: .... I would usually meet the chairperson as well and have a chance to talk through the report. On Deputy Carthy's question, we are in discussions with like-minded EU states in relation to Gaza, Israel and Palestine. We are very strongly of the view that any action, if taken, needs to be on a multilateral basis and not unilaterally to be effective.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Leo Varadkar: ...case in Brussels on Thursday and Friday. We support further sanctions on Hamas but also the imposition of sanctions on violent settlers in the West Bank. We have called for a review of the EU-Israel association agreement, taking into account the human rights clause, and we are also providing additional funding for the International Criminal Court, which is the body that could issue...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Paul Gavan: ...surrogacy Bill. I have witnessed it first-hand.I want to once again raise the issue of Palestine and, in particular, the very powerful lobby we have received over the last week calling for the EU-Israel Association Agreement to be terminated. This is the correct call to make and I am calling on the Government to make that call at Thursday's EU Council meeting. Earlier, I looked at the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft (12 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...Affairs and Trade his role in the oversight in the stop-off of any military personnel or equipment at Irish ports or airports; if any such stop-off has included personnel or equipment on route to Israel or Palestine since 7 October 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54617/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (12 Dec 2023)

Micheál Martin: Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory are illegal under international law, constitute an obstacle to peace and threaten to make a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict impossible. Government advice is available on the gov.ie website for the general public and, in particular for Irish companies. This advice makes it clear that we do not encourage or...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (12 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: 97. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his response to the President of Israel stating during an RTÉ broadcast that Irish taxpayer monies had been misused in the construction of tunnels by Hamas, in light of a review of funding provided by the European Union to Palestine which found that safeguards work well and that 'no evidence has been found to date that money has been...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (12 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the topics he discussed with Israeli officials during his visit to Israel in September of this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54735/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Priorities (12 Dec 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...sanctions against Russia, and engaging with international partners to ensure accountability for any crimes committed in Ukraine. We will stress the need for an urgent humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and Israel and highlight the importance of developing a credible process leading to a two-state solution. The full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement and the promotion of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (12 Dec 2023)

Micheál Martin: The United States is an important player in the region and has a key role to play in the context of the current crisis in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. Both President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken have visited Israel and the region as part of their diplomatic efforts. The situation was also discussed at the highest level by EU and US leaders at the EU-US Summit in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Military Aircraft (12 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Matt Carthy: ..., Tourism and Sport his role in the oversight in the stop-off of any military personnel or equipment at Irish ports or airports; if any such stop-off has included personnel or equipment on route to Israel or Palestine since 7 October 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54616/23]

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Dec 2023)

Lynn Boylan: .... I do not use this word lightly. It is genocide and the most brutal collective punishment of a civilian population that I think the world has witnessed. Nobody should be doing business with Israel now. It should be boycotted and shunned as a rogue nation where human life holds no value whatsoever. Israel is chasing Palestinian people down from block to block and now telling them to...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023) See 12 other results from this debate

Peter Burke: ...of civilians must be paramount. It is an obligation under international humanitarian law. There must be accountability for civilian deaths. We are very disappointed that the truce between Israel and Palestine has been ended. The seven-day truce was seen to work, with the release of hostages and the flow of much-needed aid into Gaza. The efforts of the US, Qatar and Egypt in securing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023) See 6 other results from this debate

Mary Lou McDonald: We are all witnessing the absolute savagery and depravity of the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, on civilians, women, children and men. Bear in mind that the majority of Gazans are a refugee population. They have been left in the most dire and desperate circumstances as the world watches on. Do not miss the fact that, in the West Bank also, settler violence has spiked. Israel acts with utter...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Thomas Pringle: ...Minister cannot answer a simple question as to whether he will brief Members on the flow of weapons through our territory. It is apparent that no inspections are being carried out. As we watch Israel raze Gaza to the ground and indiscriminately murder civilians and journalists using US-sponsored weapons, it is pathetic that the Minister cannot see fit to brief Members. Does the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Ivana Bacik: ...Africa's brutal apartheid regime? We can do more domestically, as well as doing more at international level, to press our EU partners to look for a permanent ceasefire. We can do more to impose trade sanctions on Israel, to pass the occupied territories Bill and to recognise Palestinian statehood.

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...and I listened and saw it. I met the people. I saw what happened whereby stickers were put on doors at night for people to be taken away by neighbours and friends. I know what happened. We hear what is going on in Israel and Gaza and it is obnoxious but we want to be one-sided here and prance around the streets and cause numerous protests. I have never organised a protest in my life....