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Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: Irish neutrality is a strength. It underpins our contribution to peacekeeping and diplomacy and allows Ireland to play a positive and constructive role in conflict resolution. We should be proud to say that Irish neutrality is a strength. Others have attempted to portray neutrality as a weakness. I put on the record of the House that it absolutely is not. Fine Gael has always been...

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: You are a liar.

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: The Tánaiste is telling lies in the Chamber.

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: Agreed.

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: I welcome the Palestinian ambassador, members of the Palestinian community and long-standing campaigners for justice in Palestine to the Dáil for statements to mark an historic moment for both Ireland and Palestine. The decision to officially recognise the State of Palestine fulfils a Dáil mandate that is now almost a decade old. It was in December 2014 that the Members of this...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: Hear, hear.

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: Hear, hear.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: I have raised previously the atrocious condition of local roads across rural communities including in my county of Monaghan. Local roads are in the worst state seen in decades because the Government has underfunded councils. It now appears that rather than addressing the shortfall at a time when the Government is increasing fuel costs, we have been told by industry that TII plans further...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: That is not what it is telling the industry.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (23 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: 56. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on his efforts to ensure that dual-use items exported to Israel are not used in military applications. [23276/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (23 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: As the Minister knows, dual-use items are items that can have either a civilian or, importantly in this case, a military use or capability. Over recent years, the Government and the Department have been signing off on an increasing number of licences for dual-use items to be exported to Israel from Ireland. Can the Minister assure the House that not a single one of those items is being used...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (23 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: Those words would count for more if there were a single instance where the Department had refused a licence. There is a big question mark over the rationale and the reason the number of dual-licence products - these are products that can be used by military forces - has actually been increasing in recent years. The value of these products from Ireland to Israel was €4.7 million in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (23 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: With due respect to the Minister of State, he is asking me to do his job for him. He talks about the interactions with the Department of Foreign Affairs. That Department is obliged under its own criteria to consider "Respect for human rights in the country of final destination as well as respect by that country of international humanitarian law". How the hell can we be allowing any licence...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Export Controls (23 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: Not a single licence has ever been refused.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: The announcement that Ireland will formally recognise the state of Palestine next Tuesday is an historic moment for both Ireland and Palestine. I want to commend today all those who have campaigned, marched, petitioned and stood up for international law and the reality that the only route to a lasting peace in the Middle East lies with a free, independent and sovereign Palestinian state....

Housing Situation: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: If I were to say "systemic failures, ineffective decision making, reactive policymaking, risk aversion, impacting supply, and undermining affordability", someone would think I was taking an excerpt from a speech Deputy Ó Broin had made in this House, but I am not. These are excerpts from the Housing Commission report, the Housing Commission that was set up and established by the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: 43. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the timeframe in which he intends to publish a draft scheme in relation to his proposals to remove the triple lock neutrality protection; and if he intends to conduct both a public consultation and pre-legislative scrutiny. [22044/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Naval Service (16 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the establishment figure of the Naval Service; the strength as of 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; the current strength of the service; the number of personnel required under level of ambition 2; and the current number of ships that can simultaneously be put to sea. [22124/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: 1. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence where he intends to deploy Irish troops in the event that he is successful in progressing legislation that would remove the triple lock neutrality protection, considering the Government has withdrawn from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, UNDOF, peacekeeping mission due to capacity constraints. [22123/24]

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: Today marks the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, which saw 15,000 Palestinians killed and some three quarters of a million more expelled. The seven and a half decades since then have been marked, on the one hand, by the repeated breach by Israel of international laws and, on the other, by the failure of the international community to hold that state accountable for those breaches. The world,...