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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (28 Mar 2018)

Simon Coveney: I share the Deputy’s concern about this recent legislation. Israel has already used other measures in certain cases to revoke residency rights of East Jerusalem Palestinians, quite clearly in order to alter the demographic balance of the occupied area. This is explicitly prohibited in international law, and Israel has no right to do it. The European Union issued a very clear statement...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Middle East (19 Oct 2023)

Simon Coveney: ..., decisions and negotiations on trade policy are conducted by the Commission on behalf of the Member States through the European Council and the Council's Trade Policy Committee. Ireland and Israel have no bilateral trade or investment agreements. Trade relations between the EU and Israel are governed by a Free Trade Agreement that is part of the 2000 EU-Israel Association Agreement...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Jun 2022)

Chris Andrews: Recent comments from the EU Commission stating that the EU will move to importing natural gas from Israel to reduce the EU's dependency on Russian gas are demoralising. It has to be made clear at the next European Council meeting that one cannot replace dependency on one rogue state with dependency on another rogue state, the other rogue state being apartheid Israel. The Government is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (15 Jan 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Seán Crowe: This question relates to the treatment of Palestinian children. At the end of last year, a statement was made by the advocacy group, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, that Israel had put Palestinian prisoners, including children, in outdoor cages during the severe winter storm that struck the region last month. This occurred in the Ramla prison complex, where Palestinian...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...for what happened. We must, however, be honest that it did not happen in a vacuum. I was in Palestine in 2014 following Operation Protective Edge, when Gaza was bombarded and carpet-bombed by the Israel Defense Forces.There I witnessed, with my own eyes, humanitarian aid being blocked from going into Gaza. I witnessed trauma packs for young children to deal with the carpet bombing and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to ask about Ireland and RTÉ's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest, particularly in light of the horrific treatment by Israel of the Palestinians, the fact of an apartheid state in Israel and the systematic, regular and relentless flouting of international law and the human rights and civil rights of the Palestinians by Israel. I put it to the Taoiseach in simple...

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Deputy for her congratulations. The Government is gravely concerned about the escalating violence and the civilian casualties we are now witnessing on the ground in Gaza and Israel following Israel's launch of a major air offensive against Hamas targets in Gaza in response to the continued large-scale firing of rockets by Hamas and other Islamic militants into Israel. The...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Israeli Settlements (26 Nov 2020)

Simon Coveney: The demolition by Israeli authorities of private property is of grave concern. Demolition and confiscation of humanitarian assets, including education infrastructure, is contrary to Israel’s obligations under international humanitarian law, and in particular the Fourth Geneva Convention. I was deeply dismayed to learn of the demolition by Israeli authorities on 3 November of more...

Seanad: Situation in the Middle East: Statements (20 Feb 2024)

Vincent P Martin: The human suffering brought about by Israel's military actions is gut wrenching. It is especially reprehensible when one considers that it is being perpetrated by what is called a democratic state. The Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October was clearly abhorrent. The continued holding of hostages is intolerable and they should all be released. Israel's response has been, to say the very...

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

Rebecca Moynihan: ...they were told they would be safe in a UN enclave in a war zone. In July 1995 the Serbian army overcame both the UN troops and the town and massacred 8,000 men. Despite increasing pressure on Israel from the international community to stop the ethnic cleansing in occupied Palestine, Israel has escalated the slaughter of innocent people over the weekend in Rafah. The bombardment of Rafah...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: ...I will confine my remarks to one question for the Minister, whose presence is very welcome. It is 67 years since the United Nations recognised, by a substantial majority, the right of the State of Israel to exist. There are still countries, many of which are neighbours of the European Union or close neighbours in the Middle East, that deny to this very day the right of Israel to exist or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (31 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) on an ongoing basis. Following a successful WADEM Conference hosted by Spain in 2022, NAS and representatives of Magen David Adom (MDA) (Israel’s equivalent to NAS), agreed to collaborate on issues of mutual interest, in particular, disaster emergency preparedness and potential applications for EU Research projects. Following...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Peace Process (28 Mar 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: While much attention has focussed on the difficulties produced at an individual level by the network of controls and movement restrictions which Israel imposes on Palestinians, these measures have cumulatively also had a disastrous effect on the Palestinian economy. The economy of the West Bank effectively collapsed under the impact of these controls over ten years ago; and the degree of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (11 Feb 2015)

Charles Flanagan: ...children in the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem is of deep concern, and an issue on which Ireland has been active for some time. 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 Military...

Written Answers — Trade Agreements: Trade Agreements (13 Jun 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Agreement on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products (ACAA) is a normal technical measure under the existing EU-Israel Association Agreement and Action Plan, and does not represent any upgrading or major change in EU-Israel trade relations. It is one of eight such agreements concluded so far with the EU's Mediterranean partners, including also Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (14 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...that people see double standards. I am not taking away from the fact that Germany, the Czech Republic and other member states started with what was not necessarily a helpful outlook with regard to Israel, and that is the nicest way I can put it. We have seen that many in the European Union and its various bodies were overly supportive of Israel and provided cover that was not in any way...

Seanad: Situation in the Middle East: Statements (1 Mar 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Paul Gavan: ...this Amnesty International report is. As others have said, it is very detailed, amounting to 300 pages. It is so conclusive because it produces evidence under so many headings to demonstrate that Israel is operating an apartheid state. I will refer only briefly to my script because I want to make some other points. The report is meticulous, its details are microscopic, and its sources...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2021)

Frances Black: ...throughout my speech. We all know that apartheid is defined as a policy of segregation and political, social and economic discrimination. I believe that the discrimination being practised by the Israeli State against the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories satisfies all the criteria to qualify as apartheid. The ethnic cleansing of areas of east Jerusalem with the support of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am one of the people who believes Leo Varadkar should not have gone to meet Joe Biden. Biden has said on several occasions throughout his career the following words: “If there were not an Israel, we'd have to invent one”. In those words, he revealed the true nature of the relationship between the United States and the crimes that Israel has committed against the Palestinian...

Written Answers — Middle East Peace Process: Middle East Peace Process (14 Dec 2005) See 10 other results from this answer

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 203: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will use the opportunity of the General Affairs and External Relations Council on 15-16 December 2005, in particular the EU-Israel Association Council item, to ensure that further progress is made with regard to the role of the EU in ensuring that the commitments made in the Agreement on Movement and Access between the Government of...