Results 21-40 of 57 for israel speaker:Brendan Howlin

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

Brendan Howlin: ...consensus we can to join whatever nations agree with us. The majority of nations in the United Nations certainly agree with us that we must have a viable Palestinian state and a viable and safe Israel if we are ever going to have peace in that part of the world. Will this Government, specifically the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister of State,...

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

Brendan Howlin: ...find agreement, it was not a call for a ceasefire, rather a call for pauses to allow for humanitarian assistance to enter Gaza and hostages to be released. I understand the deep trauma felt in Israel at the 7 October attack by Hamas. Going door to door killing men, women and children and abducting infants and the elderly revisited the darkest moments of Jewish history but there can be...

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

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Bacik will take the last two minutes of my time. We have witnessed a level of ongoing savagery and brutality in Israel and Palestine in the past two weeks that has shocked the world. The savage attack on Israeli men, women and children on 7 October and the taking of 250 hostages by Hamas are inexcusable and deplorable. The response by Israel, in the bombardment of Gaza, the levelling...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...a number of matters. Most of us were very taken aback. I suppose I should say without equivocation that this committee should condemn completely and totally the savage attack on the people of Israel by Hamas. The latest count is 1,200 dead people, from infants to elderly people, and the number is growing as they find more bodies. These were people who were hunted down in their own...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Middle East (28 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...of the democratic will of the Palestinian people and I hope it can be facilitated. Fear of an election is not a trait we can accept anywhere in the world. The more fundamental point is if the Israelis, in the Tánaiste's discussions with the most senior members, were of the view that they still support a two-state solution, that is not what they are saying internationally. That...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Apr 2023)

Brendan Howlin: First, I agree with that. There may be a need for a particular debate on the Palestinian issue because of the nature of the new Israeli Government, which is the most right-wing in Israel's history with the ensuing consequences. On the impact of the issue of grain exports, I raised its impact on Africa in my contribution. It is absolutely vital that grain is exported from Ukraine. I am...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: .... I will touch briefly on two other items in the few seconds I have left. We had a very constructive interaction with the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs on the current situation in Israel and Palestine last night during Question Time. I have said that it is my belief that the very foundation of the long-held view of a two-state solution is now being fundamentally...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 72. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the approach he is taking to the actions of the new Israeli government on its ongoing efforts to destroy a two state solution; the specific actions including sanctions that will be taken against Israel for the recognition of, and development of, new illegal settlements; the measures if any, that will be proposed to halt...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I want to continue on this theme because I feel fundamentally depressed by what is unfolding internationally. The only internationally supported long-term peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was and is a viable two-state solution, a viable and internationally recognised state of Israel and a viable and internationally recognised state of Palestine. That is now being made...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...peace in a situation that has often been the root of a conflict that has spread across the world over the last number of decades. The West Bank is the main part of the Palestinian territories. Israel has now constructed 130 settlements that house more than 700,000 settlers. As the Minister has heard, the Israeli Parliament repealed legislation that ordered the dismantling of four...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...for a solution is fundamentally undermined and made impossible. Then, we are talking about a single state. Is that the only viable outcome that is left? That will mean permanent conflict in Israel in my view. We heard the Israeli finance minister, Mr. Bezalel Smotrich, say there is "no such thing" as a Palestinian people and his claim that the Palestinian people are a fictitious...

Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: ...gains to explain where they got them and to prove they are legitimate. In the Bill I have proposed we wanted to define certain conduct occurring outside the State, in places like Ukraine and places like Israel, as criminal conduct if that conduct constitutes or is connected with a gross abuse of human rights. Under the Bill, conduct is stated to constitute "a gross human rights abuse if...

Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (30 Nov 2021)

Brendan Howlin: ...Minister, Deputy Coveney, on this issue but I wish in the few minutes I have to deal with three specific issues. First, I add my voice to the issue that is now current and immediate, that is, Israel's designation of six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist organisations. That is a clear and absolute assault on democratic norms of accountability and human rights monitoring. No democratic...

European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Jun 2021)

Brendan Howlin: ..., Iraq and elsewhere. We need to have a different dialogue with Turkey and to not become complicit with the human rights abuses that are ongoing in that state. In the time remaining to me, I want to mention the Israel-Palestine conflict. There is a new Israeli Government and, I hope, a prospect for a new initiative. As I said in the last three contributions I made on this issue,...

Annexation of Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2021)

Brendan Howlin: ...of the motion in recent weeks has been on the systematic undermining, if not the shattering, of the basis of a two-state solution to the generations of conflict and violence which have occurred between Israel and Palestine, the Israelis and the Palestinians. We in Ireland know full well that peace can only be brought about when an acceptable situation is negotiated, embraced and agreed...

Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel: Statements (20 May 2021)

Brendan Howlin: ...best armed military forces on the planet. We know that at least 230 Palestinians are dead, including 65 children, which I read as I came into the Chamber. The rockets launched by Hamas against Israel have killed ten people, including two children, and two other Israelis have also died in civil unrest. The scenes emerging on our televisions have horrified all right-thinking people....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Industrial Policy Priorities, including Vaccine Production and Digital Transformation: Discussion with Commissioner Thierry Breton (20 Apr 2021)

Brendan Howlin: ...the speed of development of vaccines. It was a scientific achievement probably unparalleled in medicine and one to which Europe had significant input. However, Europe did allow the US, the UK and Israel to steal a march ahead of us where the pre-purchase and acquisition of vaccines is concerned. Have we learned from that experience for the next phase or indeed the next pandemic? Can...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Israeli Settlements (26 Nov 2020)

Brendan Howlin: ...anti-Semites following the chasing away of the EU’s Head of Mission to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Mr. Sven Kühn Von Burgsdorff, from a Jerusalem neighbourhood, Givat Hamatos, the day after Israel issued tenders for 1,257 new homes in the area; the action the EU has taken on the matter to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37959/20]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (15 Jul 2020)

Brendan Howlin: ...clear. We have made substantial changes but other changes need to be made. I strongly support the OECD process because we cannot change the conditionality of the competitive advantage of Europe vis-à-viscountries like Israel or Singapore by having a uniquely onerous tax regime. However, we need to ensure that multinational companies pay their fair share of tax and that has not been...