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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Sanctions (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...ask the Minister for Finance if he has engaged or will engage with fellow members of Economic and Financial Affairs Council, ECOFIN, to secure financial and economic sanctions against the State of Israel in response to flagrant violations of international law committed by the State of Israel in Gaza and the occupied territories of Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Sanctions (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: In the past six months, we have witnessed, before our very eyes and in very real time, an unfolding genocide against the people of Gaza perpetrated by the State of Israel and its war machine. What engagement has the Minister, as a member of ECOFIN, had with colleagues in the European Union to implement a comprehensive suite of financial and economic sanctions against the State of Israel? If...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Sanctions (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: At this moment, the State of Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war. Its depraved action is provoking famine and every person, man, woman and child is a target of this assault on human life. Israel has targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure. It has decimated homes, hospitals and schools across Gaza. It has laid waste to Gaza, including its land, infrastructure and people,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Sanctions (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...Russia being introduced and renewed several times was a clear example of this. However, as well as accountability there needs to be consistency. There need to be sanctions against the State of Israel. What I am hearing from the Minister today is that this is not his role and he does not believe it is appropriate that he bring forward a proposal for discussion at ECOFIN regarding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...which are under the control of ISIF and are not pooled investments, are in banks. Taxpayers are appalled that their money is going to the likes of Leumi Bank, which is one of the largest banks in Israel. For decades this bank has facilitated the expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied territories. In 2022, it granted a loan for a construction project in the Palestinian village...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: This is day 116 of Israel's brutal, indiscriminate and merciless war against the people of Gaza. It is a bombardment that has stolen the lives of men, women and children with the Israeli war machine and its Government killing more than 26,000 civilians. More than 18,000 of them are women and children. Some 1.9 million people have been displaced with those who have so far survived this...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treasury Management Agency (23 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...increased attacks, intimidation and brutality in the West Bank. These events have underlined the need for the State to do everything in its means and use everything at its disposal to hold the Israeli regime to account on behalf of the Palestinian people. We have legislation calling for divestment in the illegal settlements by Israel. Will the Minister update the Dáil his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...should be doing from a moral, environmental and sustainability point of view. I do not think Sinn Féin should have to force this issue onto the agenda. We brought this forward at a time when Israel was not unleashing the terror it is has unleashed over the last five weeks in Palestine. I am going to leave it at that but let me say this. The signal that this sends out - it is not...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday, the Minister and his Government shamefully voted against Sinn Féin's motion to refer Israel to the International Criminal Court for the war crimes and crimes against humanity and genocide that we are seeing in Gaza over the past month. This is as the bombs continue to rain down on the people of Gaza. This is as we continue to see infants, babies, dying in hospitals in Gaza...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...be for an immediate and full ceasefire, for the universal application of, and adherence to, international law with the explicit condemnation of those who breach it regardless of who they are, including Israel. If European leaders refuse to grasp this opportunity, however, then it falls to the Government to show desperately needed international leadership. What actions will the Government...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: ...what is a progressive and human rights-based legislative measure. Nothing will change in Gaza or the West Bank until the international community moves from empty rhetoric to putting pressure on Israel. Next week marks the fourth anniversary of a Sinn Féin motion that was agreed unanimously by the House and that called on the State to formally recognise the state of Palestine. The...

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: ...yesterday. The Taoiseach mentioned the UN resolution and referred to an independent investigation, but the United States has already vetoed it. It has made it very clear that it is in support of Israel in this case. None of the actions I have asked the Taoiseach to take would be for the sake of it. If Israel continues to act with impunity, we will continue in the weeks ahead to see...

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: ...happened there will agree. Live ammunition and tear gas were used against unarmed Palestinians who were demanding their right to return to the homes and villages they were expelled from in 1948. We now know that 58 people have been killed as a result of the actions of the Israeli forces, including six children, and 2,700 have been injured. It is shameful. On behalf of Sinn Féin, I...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (20 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance if a bank (details supplied) or other State-backed banks have been lobbied or communicated with by Israel or other foreign states regarding their management of certain accounts, as, for example, in a newspaper article; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12557/18]

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

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the World Bank report on the Palestinian economy, which states that Israel's system of checkpoints and restrictions in the occupied West Bank has inflicted long-term damage on Palestinians' ability to compete in the global market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15533/13]

Written Answers — Trade Agreements: Trade Agreements (11 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: ...28: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will support the proposal of the European Commission to upgrade the trade relationship between the European Union and Israel through the Agreement on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products at a time when the European Union has again expressed serious concern about the continuing existence of...

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (13 Jul 2011)

Pearse Doherty: ...advise which way he will vote should Palestine seek recognition at the United Nations for a Palestinian state this September, if Palestine's preferred option of resuming direct negotiations with Israel to achieve the state of Palestine through a comprehensive peace agreement does not materialise before then. [20090/11]

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (21 Apr 2011)

Pearse Doherty: ...2011, which calls on the UN General Assembly to address the continuing impunity for war crimes and possible crimes against humanity committed in the 2008-09 Gaza conflict and the failure of both Israel and the Hamas [i]de facto[/i] administration to conduct credible, independent investigations, by calling on the UN Security Council to refer the situation to the prosecutor of the...

Seanad: Interception of Gaza-bound Humanitarian Flotilla: Statements (2 Jun 2010)

Pearse Doherty: There is a time when we must all stand up and, sometimes, words are not enough. That time is now. I refer to the actions of the Israeli authorities not only in this instance but when they forged Irish passports to conduct activities of murder. In this case, commandos came down from a helicopter in the dark of night, with Irish citizens on board a ship, equipped with iron bars and kitchen...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2008)

Pearse Doherty: ...and drive, but the law allows for it. I welcome the pending legislation in this area and I hope it is passed without delay. I share the concerns raised by some Senators on the fuel blockade in Israel. This House needs to do everything in its power to ensure the blockade is lifted. There are 650,000 people suffering at present and the United Nations will not be able to reach these people...