Results 1-20 of 55 for israel speaker:Brendan Howlin

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)

Brendan Howlin: ..., there is the total undermining of the UN. We have been advocates of and defenders of the UN but this move will add to the autocratic view that we should pull it down. We have seen the attitude of Israel to the UN. Even when 143 nations vote, they are all to be decried. However, UN institutions are the post-Second World War best hope. Would it not be better for us to seek to reform...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out his actions of recent times to end the Israeli assault on Gaza; the discussions he has had with governments in the region; the contacts he has had with the US government; the attitude of other EU foreign ministers to the ongoing tactics being employed by Israel; the efforts made to secure an immediate ceasefire; and if he will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement: Mr. Bertie Ahern (8 May 2024)

Brendan Howlin: ...of enlargement, is there a limit? Mr. Ahern said he had this debate at a previous European Council. Is there a limit to what constitutes the right of membership? It could be something like Australia and Israel competing in the Eurovision Song Contest. What is the limit? What are the conditions of membership? Linked to that is the issue of autocracy and the rule of law. As we have...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)

Brendan Howlin: ...to bring about a halt to the killing. I commend the comments of the Taoiseach in the United States last week coming in tandem with the remarks of Senator Chuck Schumer, a long-standing ally of Israel. I hope they had an impact in the US but I feel they will have no impact on the Netanyahu government. This week Europe must do more. Even the most ardent supporters of Israel know that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Human Rights (7 Mar 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Israel is still trying to destroy Gaza.

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]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: ...impact on the way future democracy works. As an aside, I was taken by Mr. Harte's observation that the antisemitic tropes echoing disinformation narratives are common, as is language questioning Israel's motivations. I ask him to expand on the point in respect of language questioning Israel's motivations. Certainly I question Israel's motivations in what it is doing now. It goes to my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: The basic question I asked was how that conclusion in respect of Israel's motivations was reached.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (13 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government accepts that Israeli settlement policy in the occupied Palestinian territories is a breach of peremptory norms of international law, including in particular international humanitarian law; if the Government recognises the obligation of the State not to recognise the illegal situation created by this breach, and not to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Brendan Howlin: ...the formal setting with colleagues to see if the momentum developed by Ireland, Spain, Belgium and others s growing and if there are other moves in terms of strengthening our pressure points on Israel to bring about a ceasefire. Similarly, on Ukraine, obviously we welcome the decision of the European Council to make the allocation to Ukraine to sustain it over the next four years. It is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: ...sanctions, will be the response of the Irish Government, the European Union and the world community to ensure that such a ceasefire comes to pass? Will the court's direction simply be ignored by Israel with the impunity it believes has been bestowed on it by the world community to do exactly as it wishes?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: It is on the same issue of the legal case against Israel by South Africa in the International Court of Justice.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 75. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any contact with the government of South Africa to discuss that country's legal case against Israel in the International Court of Justice, concerning the carnage being inflicted of the people of Gaza; if he sees a role for Ireland in assisting or supporting this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3127/24]

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I have one further supplementary question regarding the two-state solution. The Israeli Government, as currently composed, has set its face against the latter. Prime Minister Netanyahu has said that something that, had somebody from the Palestinian side said it, would be a criminal offence in Britain. He said that there must be one state from the Jordan to the sea, meaning the...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: ...three questions. Briefly, the voices that have been very clear on every side of the House, including from the Government backbenches, calling for Ireland to join with South Africa in its case against Israel in the International Court of Justice. Can the Minister of State in very clear terms spell out what the Government's position is and the timelines he expects, not when it is mindful...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: ...of most Irish people and of all right-thinking people across the European Union. The ongoing carnage in Gaza is unconscionable and horrifying. It is now clear to the entire world that the Israeli Government feels it can act with complete impunity and exactly as it wishes. A country that Ireland regards as a member of the community of nations has decided that it is not bound by...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...people. There is no other way of saying it. This has moved now from an attack on northern Gaza to an attack on southern Gaza. This is where people have been asked to move for shelter. The Israel Defense Forces dropped leaflets telling people to go to a safe zone in the southern half of the Gaza Strip. Now, that so-called safe zone - and it never was truly safe, because there was an...

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...since is that matters have become even worse. The Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science told the Dáil earlier that this is a war on children. The State of Israel is waging war on children. It is a war that has claimed 4,000 victims so far. They are 4,000 beautiful, innocent children. The bloodletting continues as we speak in this Chamber...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...consensus we can to join whatever nations agree with us. The majority of nations in the United Nations certainly agree with us that we must have a viable Palestinian state and a viable and safe Israel if we are ever going to have peace in that part of the world. Will this Government, specifically the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister of State,...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...find agreement, it was not a call for a ceasefire, rather a call for pauses to allow for humanitarian assistance to enter Gaza and hostages to be released. I understand the deep trauma felt in Israel at the 7 October attack by Hamas. Going door to door killing men, women and children and abducting infants and the elderly revisited the darkest moments of Jewish history but there can be...