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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: 119. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent events in Palestine and Israel which have seen a number of civilians die in violent circumstances. [37732/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Overseas Visits (9 Jun 2015)

Joe Higgins: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, on 11 January 2015. [2207/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: ...? Is it an issue on which the Taoiseach will engage and raise at meetings? I refer to the horrors and atrocities visited on the people of Gaza by the overwhelming miliary power of and bombardment by the Israeli regime. How do the Taoiseach and his fellow EU leaders justify Israel being a favoured state of the European Union as far as trade issues are concerned? How does he justify...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: ...East. Is one of the roles of that Cabinet committee to review European policy and, more importantly, European actions by the Commission and the bureaucracy of the European Union towards the whole Israeli-Palestine crisis? In that regard, why does the Taoiseach tolerate a situation in which the European Union as an institution continually favours Israel in trade matters, for example, as...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (10 Jun 2014)

Joe Higgins: 144. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised the use of administrative detention by the Israeli state in the occupied Palestinian territories and the reported abuse of human rights such as torture, solitary confinement, denial of visits from family and legal representatives, allegations of deliberate medical negligence, transportation of detainees...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Relations (12 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: During his visit to the United States will the Taoiseach raise with the Secretary of State and President Obama the ongoing appalling oppression of Palestinian people in Israeli prisons, in particular, the case of the 30 year old Palestinian, Arafat Jaradat, who died on 25 February having been in an interrogation centre of the Shin Bet, the secret police of Israel, for five days? The autopsy...

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: ...of the Taoiseach is to make a telephone call to another banker to see what he should do. I wish to call a different humiliation to the Tánaiste's attention, however. Last Friday, a foreign state, Israel, jailed 14 Irish citizens who were snatched from international waters while bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza. The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade has not uttered a...

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste gives the impression these 14 citizens could have been out of Israel in a matter of hours if they had signed an innocuous document. They were asked to sign a document stating they had illegally entered Israel. They could not sign that statement because it would be a lie.

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste stated that he met the Israeli ambassador yesterday. Will he call him in this morning to ask him why the State of Israel saw fit to humiliate the Irish Government by its treatment of our citizens this morning? The idea that British Airways would refuse to board seven Irish citizens is utterly derisory.

Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: ...great sympathy for and are in solidarity with the suffering people of Gaza who are suffering mass unemployment, the malnourishment of children and extreme penury as a result of the blockade by the Israel. If the Taoiseach knows this and says he knows what the situation is in Gaza as a result of his visit, why did he agree to such a gutless communiqué from the EU leaders' summit meeting...

Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2011)

Joe Higgins: ..., when Deputy Boyd Barrett and I called on the Taoiseach to publicly demand unhindered passage for the flotilla, he failed to do so. Why is the Taoiseach so pathetically weak in demanding of the Israeli Government that it allow this critical aid to pass unhindered? Has the Government been lobbied in any way by the Israeli Government? Is he afraid to displease the American Government,...

Overseas Missions: Motion. (11 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: The United Nations has no credibility as a champion for the people of Lebanon. Resolution 1701 blatantly understates the criminal slaughter of more than 1,000 Lebanese civilians by the Israeli armed forces. The barbaric destruction of huge swathes of infrastructure in Lebanon and the massacre of the innocents was carried out using armaments, aeroplanes and bombs supplied to Israel by two of...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: ...of health and infrastructure, in particular, when the past four weeks have shown that this Government has a sense of direction that lies somewhere between "Wanderly Wagon" and the ancient tribes of Israel wandering in the desert, but with no Moses and no burning bush? The Taoiseach faces a mutiny on the Fianna Fáil ship. When the normally mild-mannered Deputy Johnny Brady begins to exude...