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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...need to dramatically scale up the level of humanitarian assistance entering Gaza by land. The International Court of Justice made clear in its order for provisional measures on 26 January that Israel must take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance in Gaza. That was more than a month ago; since that time,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: I have been engaging intensively with EU, regional and international partners since the beginning of this crisis in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. I have conveyed the urgent need for a sustainable humanitarian ceasefire and full, safe and unhindered humanitarian access into Gaza, as well as the immediate and unconditional release of hostages. Ireland’s diplomatic...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: Ireland has repeatedly expressed serious concern on the matter of the designation of six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist organisations by Israel in October 2021, including in bilateral contacts with Israel. The Foreign Ministries of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and The Netherlands issued a joint statement in support of the civil society organisations in July...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Media Pluralism (7 Mar 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 133. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he supports the campaign by more than 50 journalists calling on Israel and Egypt to provide free and unfettered access to Gaza for all foreign media; the steps he will take to achieve this important objective; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11216/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Bodies (7 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: On 22 February, the Attorney General appeared before the International Court of Justice in the advisory opinion case on Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, to make an oral statement on behalf of Ireland to the Court. This built on the written statement that Ireland submitted to the Court last...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: I have been engaging intensively with EU, regional and international partners since the beginning of this crisis in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. During all of these engagements I have conveyed the same message: there is an urgent need for a sustainable humanitarian ceasefire and a significant scale-up of humanitarian access and supplies into Gaza. All of Ireland’s...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (7 Mar 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: ...Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a risk assessment has been carried out on the impact to Irish peacekeeping troops serving in Lebanon on their monitoring of the blue line between Lebanon and Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11109/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Mar 2024)

Matt Carthy: 437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his engagements with Irish institutes of higher education regarding their ongoing collaboration with counterparts in Israel; and if he has raised any concerns with University College Dublin related to their Israeli counterpart fundraising for student reservists that took part in the Israeli assault on Gaza; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: EU Agreements (7 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Matt Carthy: 438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, given the request of the Taoiseach that the European Commission urgently review whether Israel is complying with its obligations to respect human rights in Gaza under the EU-Israel Association Agreement, he has similarly sought review of Israel’s participation in Horizon Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11401/24]

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...companies sucks up a huge amount more of global research than it should. That is not completely alien in this country either. We are trying to dig up the connections between our higher education institutions and Israel and its arms industry. Our student boycott, divestment and sanctions groups are uncovering the connections that exist between our third level institutions and a state...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Ivana Bacik: Reports from Gaza this week reflect the utterly horrific and worsening suffering of people there. It is not only the 30,000 dead under the brutal Israeli bombardment but now we are seeing children in Gaza dying of starvation. It is appalling, a man-made famine unfolding before our eyes in Gaza, with despairing families and aid workers, and stalling on peace talks. We still see this...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (6 Mar 2024) See 6 other results from this answer

Réada Cronin: 6. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the joint Irish-Spanish diplomatic initiative demanding a review of how Israel is fulfilling its human-rights obligations in its conduct in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10920/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (6 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Matt Carthy: ...to Parliamentary Question No. 28 of 25 January 2024, if his Department has advised against or expressed reservations in relation to the granting of dual use export licence in relation to exports to Israel in the period 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10975/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (6 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: The ongoing conflict in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory is gravely concerning – after almost five months of relentless violence and displacement, civilians in Gaza are living in conditions that no human being should have to endure. Ireland has called for a humanitarian ceasefire since autumn of 2023. I will continue to focus my engagements on the urgent need for an...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...necessary. That is shameful and we need to do so as a matter of urgency. In light of what is happening in Gaza, it is important to remind ourselves that 70% of those who have been massacred by Israel were women and children. Of the 30,000 people murdered by the genocidal Israeli attack over the past five months, 70% were women and children, totally innocent and butchered by Israeli...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Holly Cairns: Israel is continuing its relentless attack on Gaza. More than 30,000 people have been killed and starvation is being used as a weapon of war. At the weekend, distressing images of a ten-year-old child with cerebral palsy, Yazan al-Kafarneh, circulated online. He needed a specialised diet that he was not able to get, so, reduced to skill and bone, he starved to death alongside 20 other...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy. I take this opportunity to reiterate the Government's call for an immediate ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. This will allow the hostages to be released, the killing to stop and much-needed food and medicine to get in to the Gaza Strip, where civilians are in a very desperate and unimaginable situation. We believe that a humanitarian ceasefire for...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (5 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: Ireland’s position on Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory is clear - they are illegal under international law. This was reiterated by the Attorney General at the International Court of Justice in The Hague on 22 February last. In accordance with international law, Ireland distinguishes between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied...

Report of Joint Committee on Gender Equality: Motion (29 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: .... There is no greater or more pressing common cause today than the massacre of the women of Gaza and their children. Two mothers are being killed every hour, their children left grieving. Thirteen thousand children killed by Israel leave their mothers mourning them forever. It is a deliberate act on the part of Israel to target mothers, the glue in families and throughout the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Micheál Martin: ...It will have a number of dimensions to it. Clearly, it will involve an immediate ceasefire. It will also have a security dimension in respect of the longer-term sustainable security situation in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. There will also be the issue of normalisation between the Arab States and Israel. As part of that, then, there would be a Palestinian administration running Gaza...