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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2024)
Cuireadh an Dáil ar fionraí ar 2.02 p.m. agus cuireadh tús leis arís ar 3.02 p.m. Sitting suspended at 2.02 p.m. and resumed at 3.02 p.m.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2024)
Mick Barry: Listening to the Taoiseach, the thought struck me as to when the Prime Minister of Spain might recognise the state of Catalonia, but in any case, I welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine insofar as it goes. I do not welcome the fact that the Taoiseach has attempted to link this to the idea of a two-state solution brokered by the international community, in other words, by the US...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The people of this country in their majority have long recognised Palestine. Finally, the Government has caught up with the people. It is a pity it has taken seven months of a genocidal massacre in Gaza and decades of ethnic cleansing by Israel, illegal occupation, the siege of Gaza and brutal suppression of Palestinian rights, but it is a step forward. It will mean very little if it is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: Two days ago, the International Criminal Court prosecutor, Karim Khan announced that he was pursuing arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Minister for Defence, Yoav Gallant, for a range of war crimes. One of the war crimes he was seeking the arrest warrant for was that of starvation of civilians as a method of warfare. That is correct, in my opinion....
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: The first thing I want to say, and I am very conscious of it on a day like today, but it is important to say this, is that what happened on 7 October was an horrific terrorist attack. It was a massacre of people at a music festival. We have seen people who were killed, assaulted, raped, taken hostage, including children, including an Irish-Israeli girl. We should never forget that, brush...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Change Policy (22 May 2024)
Mick Barry: The European far right rallied in Madrid last Sunday, where they were addressed by Argentina's President Javier Milei who described climate change as a socialist lie. Of course, it does not take far-right leaders to jet in from other continents to come out with this kind of nonsense. The European far right is well capable of putting it forward itself. Alternative für Deutschland is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Change Policy (22 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Any sensible person knows there is a climate and biodiversity emergency and that, if we do not address them, we will be in trouble. As much as the far right want to deny it, the impacts will cost our society very dearly. We have to recognise that large numbers of people have become alienated from the climate action and biodiversity action agenda because they see climate action as a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Change Policy (22 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: Transport is one of the top two emitting sectors of greenhouse gases. Most of this comes from private cars. To get these numbers down and improve people's lives on a daily basis, we need a massive modal shift away from cars, and people sitting in traffic for an hour on their way to work and for an hour on their way home, into quality public transport and active travel. This means investing...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Change Policy (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: To respond to Deputy O'Rourke, yesterday the Government considered the climate action plan for 2024 which has now been published. Next year we will begin the process of the allocation of the unallocated emissions. We have given consideration, and the Minister Deputy Ryan has shared this with the House previously, to a number of ways this can be addressed, including technology. I am very...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2024)
Foreign Conflicts
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2024)
Mick Barry: 14. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any recent discussions he has had with other world leaders in connection with the conflict in the Middle East. [22347/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any recent discussions he has had with other world leaders in connection with the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [22692/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: 16. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any recent discussions he has had with other world leaders in connection with the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [22694/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2024)
Bríd Smith: 17. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any recent discussions he has had with other world leaders in connection with the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [22697/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 14 to 17, inclusive, together. As the House will be aware, the ongoing conflict in Gaza and the situation in the Middle East is of great international concern. The phrase "ongoing conflict" does not in any way capture the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe we are now seeing in Gaza. Since my election as Taoiseach, I have had many discussions on the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)
Mick Barry: St. Killian's Special School in Mayfield on the north side of Cork city is a wonderful school that has 93 children attending. That figure will rise to 99 in September. The school has need of a psychologist, a speech and language therapist and an occupational therapist, and perhaps a play therapist and a behavioural therapist. Before Christmas, the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, told...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Two months ago, the Government disastrously lost two referendums. It spent €23 million to run the referendums. At the time, we in Aontú, the only party that opposed the referendums, stated clearly that the Government was misleading the people in respect of the tax elements that would affect the people, what was meant by durable relationships and how the courts would see it, and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)
Cormac Devlin: The Deputy must withdraw that remark about lying.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: If anybody has a thesaurus I can use that will give the understanding that the Government did not tell the truth, I will use a different word, if necessary. It is important that the Government takes responsibility, investigates why Ministers were misleading the people and comes clean and apologies to the people of Ireland for the information it shared at that key moment.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I do not intend to rerun the referendum campaign. I have no doubt that people engaged in good faith on a variety of sides.