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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (18 Jan 2023)

Michael McGrath: I am advised by Revenue that there are no restrictive measures on goods coming from Palestine. Both Palestine and Israel have Free trade agreements with the EU. However, goods produced in the Israeli settlements located within the territories brought under Israeli administration since June 1967 are not entitled to benefit from preferential tariff treatment under the EU-Israel Association...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Leo Varadkar: In relation to Israel itself, we should acknowledge that it is one of the few countries in the region that has a democratically elected Government, an independent judiciary and equal rights for women and LGBT people. We would not like that to change. I am concerned that Israel is going down a very different path from that but I do not think our concerns about Israel should blind us to other...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Nov 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: As Israel continues to lay waste to Gaza and its medical infrastructure, there are 50,000 pregnant women who cannot access basic health services and proper care. Now, Al-Awda Hospital, the only hospital in northern Gaza left providing maternity services, will shut down as fuel runs out. The trauma and the horror experienced by Gazan women is the stuff of nightmares. It is a living...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Feb 2024)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. I would like to quote a part of his letter which he wrote with the Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, with regard to the events and the war in Israel in the occupied territories: Against the background of the risk of an even greater humanitarian catastrophe posed by the imminent threat of Israeli military operations in Rafah, and given what...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (3 Jun 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 38. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 4 of 29 April 2021, if the IDA has to date appointed the business development consultant in Israel; the details of the checks and balances in place within his Department to ensure that the IDA's decision to establish a presence in Israel will not indirectly support or legitimise Israel’s...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (30 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Martin: First, a trilateral memorandum of understanding with Israel and Egypt on co-operation relating to trade, transport and the export of natural gas to the European Union was signed by the European Commission on 15 June 2022. Ireland supports the agreement, which is a timely initiative that will strengthen energy security across the European Union. The legal framework for the EU-Israel...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: International Programmes (26 Feb 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Frances Black: ...his response. It is imperative to remember at this time that despite the Palestinian Authority and Hamas supposedly being the official governments of the West Bank and Gaza, there is no doubt that Israel is really in charge. Israel controls the borders, currency, central bank and even collects taxes on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, PA. It maintains the right to carry out military...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2017)

Paul Gavan: ...committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them". I raise the issue of Israel because this is Israeli Apartheid Week. Events are being held throughout Ireland this week. There will be a demonstration outside Leinster House tomorrow between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. and I...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Union (6 Oct 2022)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 37 and 55 together. At the Foreign Affairs Council in July, EU Foreign Ministers discussed the resumption of Association Council meetings with Israel, which had not taken place since 2012. It was agreed that we should start work to determine the EU position for an Association Council meeting with Israel, and that a meeting would only go ahead once an EU...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is not agreed. Israel acts with impunity and continues its genocidal war on the people of Gaza because it is never held to account by world leaders. Millions of Palestinian refugees in Rafah face the same nightmare as those wiped out in Gaza city and Khan Yunis before the eyes of world. Government has said that Israel's attack on Rafah is inhumane, that Israel behaves as a rogue state...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Arms Trade (6 Apr 2016)

Charles Flanagan: ..., items classified as “military goods” from an export control perspective include military goods and technology, as well as components for such items. Licensed exports from Ireland to Israel are component products, for example engine parts, rather than actual military equipment. As such, there is no arms trade from Ireland to Israel. There is no support at EU level for...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (11 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of State. Which dangerous political force in the Middle East is in favour of beheading, summary execution and the indiscriminate killing of civilians? One answer is "ISIS" but the other is "Israel". That is now official. This week, the Israeli foreign Minister called for Palestinian Arabs who are not loyal to the state of Israel to be beheaded. He said: "[T]hose against us, it cannot...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: I wonder whether, in the Taoiseach's discussions with Rishi Sunak, the question of financial support for Israel's genocide in Gaza came up. Britain continues to be probably the second most enthusiastic supporter of Israel globally after the US. War bonds are a type of government debt to raise capital to fund war efforts. Does the Taoiseach agree that US Treasury bonds have effectively...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (5 Jul 2016)

Charles Flanagan: ...the last ten months in which, tragically, many children and young people have been involved. At the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in October 2013, during the universal periodic review of Israel’s human rights record, Ireland expressed this concern and urged Israel to fully implement the recommendations of the February 2013 UNICEF report, entitled “Children in Israeli...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (27 Apr 2010) See 1 other result from this answer

Micheál Martin: ...has 30 members, with the Slovak Republic the most recent to accede, in 2000. In 2007, the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting decided, by consensus, to open accession discussions with Chile, Estonia, Israel, the Russian Federation and Slovenia. The OECD accession process involves submission of an initial memorandum (which sets out the country's position on more than 200 OECD legal...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cross-Border Co-operation (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...consequences for the majority of the population and they overcame it. The South African Parliament recognises its responsibility to the Palestinian people to call out the apartheid behaviour of Israel in its treatment of the Palestinians. It may be of interest to the Taoiseach to know that earlier this year the South African Parliament downgraded its diplomatic relations with Israel...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked the Taoiseach yesterday whether he and the European Union should condemn the shooting of what is now a total of 44 unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza in recent weeks by the Israeli forces. I welcome the fact that the Taoiseach condemned it, but really what I want to ask in the context of Europe, Donald Tusk and our role in Europe generally is whether we can move beyond the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Programmes (3 Oct 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy may be referring to some misleading media reports following the meeting of the EU-Israel Association Council on 24 July. In June 2009, at the urging of Ireland and other partners, the EU Foreign Affairs Council decided not to proceed at that time with an ‘upgrade’ in EU-Israel relations which had been agreed in principle the previous year. This...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (18 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: I am deeply concerned by the situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. This remains a central priority for the Government, including at EU level, where Ireland is consistently calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. The Framework Programme for Research & Innovation - Horizon Europe - is the European Union’s largest research and innovation...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (22 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...some people here speak as if being neutral means one cannot say anything about what is happening in the world and means that one cannot speak out against oppression or condemn, for example, what Israel is doing and cannot describe it as genocide. One could not, for example, take the action of sanctions against Israel. That is not what neutrality means. It is certainly not proposed in...