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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (29 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: 50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason and how the State acted with such alacrity on the purchase of a property at Dowth, while still delaying on the purchase of lands at Castletown to the degree the current owner has withdrawn their proposal to sell, due to lack of appropriate engagement; and if he will publish the timeline of the transaction regarding Dowth in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (29 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: 51. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the State acquisition of the lands at Castletown; the timeline of each and all engagements by the OPW with the current owner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52689/23]

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: I take this opportunity to welcome home the highly trained peacekeepers of the 122nd Infantry Battalion who returned from south Lebanon at the weekend. It was genuinely uplifting to see their families welcome them home. I wish them all the best as I do those of the 123rd Infantry Battalion who are rotating in at the most dangerous time for decades in the Middle East, while the EU gives full...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: Hear, hear.

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: We were all horrified when we heard that a woman and three junior and senior infants had been stabbed in broad daylight outside their school last Thursday. Our thoughts and prayers are with them. Once it was leaked that the attacker had not been born in Ireland, anyone could have predicted what followed. That is, anyone except this Government and the Garda Commissioner, who insist, despite...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: Which country?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: The Taoiseach is going to COP28 tomorrow, I think. The Horn of Africa and Kenya have suffered serious droughts due to climate change over the past few years. Now, there is flooding. The dry ground is unable to absorb all that rain. It is another sign of climate change. The Minister of State mentioned the war in Palestine. In his opening statement, he said the "attack by Hamas was one of...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: Given that 1.7 million figure, and that the number of dead being talked about could exceed 20,000 in Gaza and the West Bank, which exceeds the 750,000 displaced and the 15,000 killed during the Nakba, does the Minister of State concede that this is the worst atrocity the Palestinian people have faced from the Israeli onslaught?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: Given the Irish ambassador to Israel was summoned, rebuked and reprimanded over a tweet from the Taoiseach, has the Israeli ambassador to Ireland been called in or summoned for a reprimand regarding what comes from the Israeli Embassy about Ireland funding the tunnels built by Hamas, about the genocide, and about the disrespect shown to our much-loved President?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: Has the Israeli ambassador been summoned for a reprimand?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: The Israeli ambassador's deputy said that we were funding tunnels built by Hamas.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: Seeing as she is still here, there should be communication. She should be called in for a reprimand.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: We should have done it first.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: There was evidence. There was a tweet that she deleted-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: -----and statements made about the Arab-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: Has the Israeli ambassador been called in at all to discuss Arab concern around the genocide in Gaza?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: How many times a week on average since the war started?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: I was going to leave it at that. My questions were answered. I have one other question on Vote 27, but I do not want to have it if-----