Results 1-13 of 13 for israel speaker:David Stanton

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: ...hard and has some marvellous officials as well who are doing great work too, so I thank him for that. I am sure the Tánaiste has seen that there has been a call for the Government to impose sanctions on Israel. Could the Tánaiste comment on what the situation in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Tánaiste. Does he have an estimate of how many Irish citizens are living in Israel, Gaza, Lebanon and Ukraine?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

David Stanton: I ask the Tánaiste to characterise our relationship with Israel at the moment. We have been quite outspoken, and rightly so, in my view, with respect to the activities it is undertaking and the atrocities in Gaza. How would the Tánaiste characterise or describe our relationship with Israel at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Budget 2024, Official Development Assistance, COP28 and Ongoing Humanitarian Situations: Dóchas (21 Nov 2023)

David Stanton: It appears, hopefully, that there will be a ceasefire - and, hopefully as well, maybe a permanent one - in Gaza involving Israel and Hamas. We all want that. Everybody wants that to happen. We all condemn violence from all sides. I turn back to my reading of what is happening in Sudan. Mr. MacSorley might tell us if there is any hope at all, any chink of light, that there might be any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)

David Stanton: I join the Tánaiste and calling for all violence to cease straightaway. The suffering is immense, intense and shocking. I also call on Israel to pause what it is doing. The Tánaiste is right; this must pause now. As he said in his opening remarks, this is an incredibly dark period and it will get darker, and the prospects of regional escalation are very real. He said he spoke...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: ...up. Ms Fitzpatrick mentioned the digital nations and that we should become more involved. I believe we are not involved at all. From what I can see, there are ten other countries - Estonia, Israel, South Korea, New Zealand, the UK, Canada, Uruguay, Mexico, Portugal and Denmark. I ask her to tell us a bit more about that and why we should get involved.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Amnesty International's Report on Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians: Ireland Israel Alliance (5 Apr 2022)

David Stanton: ...for Human Rights being refused visas to visit the occupied Palestinian territories. Why is that the case? He cites people such as Ban Ki-moon, Desmond Tutu and a former Attorney General of Israel mentioning apartheid. His report is very strong. It contains three recommendations. He refers to the UN re-establishing a special committee against apartheid to investigate all and any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Amnesty International's Report on Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians: Ireland Israel Alliance (5 Apr 2022)

David Stanton: I will make a few points. First, obviously, it is very welcome that work is going on to normalise relations between Israel and certain Arab states, which has been mentioned. We always welcome that and look for more of it to happen, if possible. Second, it possibly goes without saying but it might need to be said that we reject violence from every side. Something we have always done in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

David Stanton: ...infrastructure, while on the other, it looks like it goes back to the 13th century. The contrast is shocking. There are 680,000 settlers in the West Bank. Are incentives given to people from Israel to move into these areas as settlers? Is the property free? Should the international community be calling for some of these people to move back out? It is quite a lot of people. What...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

David Stanton: ...Are there any particular reasons for that? Have the adults left or why is that the case? The figure is extraordinarily high. Mr. McLaughlin also mentioned that Irish Aid is working with some Israeli NGOs. Perhaps he will say a little more about that. I am sure I am right in saying that not everyone in Israel agrees with what is happening with demolitions, the forced movement of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (11 May 2021)

David Stanton: ...mentioned, in particular the West Bank and Gaza Strip. We have heard various reports and I ask the ambassador to give us some up-to-date information on what exactly is happening and the impact. Israel has told us that it is opening up its economy and leads the world in having a vaccinated population. What is the vaccination situation for the Palestinian people? Mr. Meehan is a former...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (16 Jun 2020)

David Stanton: ...Ethiopia 28 Georgia 664 Ghana 92 Guatemala 19 India 71 Iran (Islam Republic of) 39 Iraq 84 Israel 10 Jordan 14 Kenya 36 Kosovo/UNSCR 1244 35 ...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (9 Jun 2020)

David Stanton: ...655 Ghana 89 Guatemala 19 India 69 Iran (Islam Republic of) 37 Iraq 84 Israel 10 Jordan 14 Kenya 34 Kosovo/UNSCR 1244 34 Kuwait 15 Lesotho ...