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

Rónán Mullen: ...group, Hamas, whose mutilation, murder and hostage-taking is unconscionable and must be part of every conversation about what ought to, should and can happen into the future. Just as clearly, how Israel responds to such provocations can never escape scrutiny. We have to engage with the reality that the existence of the people in Gaza and the occupied territories is a very cruel one...

Seanad: Humanitarian Support for Ukrainian Refugees: Statements (23 Mar 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...of debate on Ukraine or anything connected to the crisis, which is regrettable. On 1 March we devoted 90 minutes to discussing the latest in a long line of Amnesty International reports criticising Israel before then turning to have a debate lasting, I think, just 60 minutes, or not much more than that, on Ukraine. It struck me at the time that if the Ukrainian people had a lobby group...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...on what he had to say about anti-Semitism and the decision by author Sally Rooney to refuse permission for her novel to be translated into Hebrew. Perhaps somebody needs to remind her that Israeli people are normal people as well. Perhaps this is an example of when virtue signalling can actually turn quite vicious, wittingly or unwittingly. It is in that context that I wanted to raise...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Official Engagements (22 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...communist dictatorship, it makes you wonder. The Minister then had a friendly meeting with the foreign minister of Iran, a country that supplies the rockets which Hamas were firing at civilians in Israel. In 2019, the foreign minister in question, Mr. Mohammad Javad Zarif, supported and defended the executions of gay people in Iran, and thousands of gay people have been executed there...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...China and made a very emollient statement afterwards of the kind we have become used to. It was certainly nothing China would object to. The same week the Minister launched a ferocious attack on Israel in the Dáil regarding the conflict there and, just 24 hours after returning from China, he correctly denounced the President of Belarus as having no democratic legitimacy. How can he...

Seanad: Matters Arising from the Withdrawal of the UK from the EU: Statements (29 Mar 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...of the vaccine roll-out more generally is another. I note Austria and Denmark have already broken ranks with the EU. They have said they will not rely solely on EU channels in future and will work with Israel to develop second-generation vaccines. This prompts the question of whether we too need to take a more independent line than we always do. I know it is difficult as a small...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jun 2010)

Rónán Mullen: ...he would like such a statement to be made. It seems it is just a political aspiration and I do not know where it fits in in the proper handling of the issue. On another matter, I regret that the Israeli ambassador will not now appear before the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs. An issue of tremendous importance has arisen in recent days, on which Israel needs to communicate its...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jun 2010)

Rónán Mullen: ...these walls. On the amazing and scary events concerning Gaza, most Members of the House subscribe to the idea that there must be a two-state solution to this problem. Those of us who wish to see Israel survive and thrive as a state surely must agree that Israel is doing itself no favours these days. I look forward to that debate tomorrow.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 May 2008)

Rónán Mullen: ...conference are 70 countries which use cluster munitions. It is to be hoped that the outcome of these deliberations will set an example and that countries such as the US, China, Britain, Russia and Israel will awaken to their responsibilities, not just to their own people but to the international community, and that we will see an end to these horrible weapons of war which do no more than...

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Rónán Mullen: I also join those who have called for a debate on the Middle East. It is tragic that Israel, a country which many of us respect and whose right to exist none of us disputes, appears to deviate from the normal standards of justice seeking because it has a strong ally. It is important we have a debate on this. Many of us who like to criticise the Republican Party in the United States for its...