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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: He should be unequivocal in his condemnation-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----of what is the worst form of warfare I have ever witnessed, on a relentless basis. Putin's Russia is bombing and levelling village after village-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----and town after town and civilian after civilian.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: Putin has weaponised food and weaponised energy-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----which is having global consequences-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Irish effort in respect of Palestine has been very proactive down through the years-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----but the Deputy does not have the wherewithal even to acknowledge that because it is his way or the highway. He has a broader world view in always trying somehow to make the real, shocking brutality of what is going on equal to somebody else's actions. We have to deal with the Middle East situation.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: We have to deal with settlements. We have to deal with other European Union colleagues, the United States and other countries-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----to bring about a resolution to the Middle East crisis. Ireland continues to support generously-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----the Palestinians. I will raise Deputy Bríd Smith's points with our colleagues in the European Parliament. I am not familiar with the precise nature of the amendment. Was the Deputy talking about the European Parliament?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: I am sorry. I thought the Deputy meant the European Parliament because, obviously-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: We do not have such powers. I do not have powers-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy has clarified the matter. We do not have powers in respect of the Polish Parliament.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: We have spoken to the Polish Government. We have had discussions at the European Council on a range of issues as to what can be done. Again, we will raise-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: May I answer? We will raise it with the Polish Government.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 4 to 9, inclusive, together. The international section of the Department supports my work at an international level, beyond the EU, to promote Ireland's foreign and economic policy objectives and to develop and maintain strong bilateral and multilateral relations. Working closely with other departments, especially the Department of Foreign Affairs, the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: No.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but it was the Prime Minister I met and not the Deputy Prime Minister, before he continued on to Washington.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank all the Deputies for their contributions. I share with Deputy Bacik her horror at this war and the extraordinary inhumanity visited on the people of Ukraine. Towns have been levelled to oblivion almost in respect of buildings. Civilians have been targeted consistently. The Deputy also correctly identified a range of volunteer organisations and individuals that have been extremely...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Jun 2022)
Micheál Martin: Grain is not being allowed out of the ports. The strangulation of the ports by Russia is a significant problem. We support the provision of non-lethal weapons. That is the position of the Government. This has not held back the deployment of the EU Peace Facility, EPF. On the point made by Deputy Boyd Barrett concerning the IMF and the seeking of financial assistance, again, the IMF is...