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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (13 Jun 2019)

Mick Wallace: I would. I would just not have them in the Golan Heights where they are protecting Israel.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...equation. Let us come up with something that makes sense. US sanctions against Iran constitute more madness. An investigation by Seymour Hersh has revealed that terrorist groups in Iran have been funded by the US and Israel. It also revealed that the Bush Administration had been funding covert operations in Iran that were designed to destabilise the country's leadership since 2005....

A Better World: Ireland's Policy for International Development: Statements (11 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...taxpayer money offered generously, in the spirit of humanitarianism, to assist impoverished Palestinians struggling to survive in the desert. But Palestine doesn't have a shortage of water. When Israel invaded and occupied the West Bank in 1967, with the backing of the US military, it asserted total control over the aquifers beneath the territory. Israel draws the majority of this water...

An Bille um an Ochtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2018 : An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...support for the war in Iraq. I disagree with its involvement in the bombing and destruction of Libya. I disagree with it providing arms to jihadists in Syria. I disagree with its lack of constructive opposition to what Israel has been doing to Palestine for a long time. I disagree with the EU's silence on what is happening in Yemen. The most recent official figure we received...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...their own financial benefit. We have to play a different role and can be a neutral voice. I know that it is difficult, but our voice can be very significant. As Deputy Boyd Barrett pointed out, in our lifetime the Israelis have not behaved as poorly with the Palestinians as they have for a number of years and the European Union is doing very little about it. What stop is being put...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (27 Mar 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...Saudi Arabia, which has put 13 million people at risk of starvation in Yemen. It has no problem dealing with the US, which has created untold havoc all over the planet and it has no problem dealing with Israel. Now the Government is actually complaining about Israel annexing the Golan Heights. Was it not an awful pity that the Government abstained at the UN vote last year when that...

Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: Is the European Union concerned? The Tánaiste has said we will be in breach of EU law if we introduce the Bill. Does it matter to the European Union that Israel is in breach of international law on a daily basis? Does it bother it? Is it a factor? When the Tánaiste attends foreign affairs meetings, is it recognised that Israel is breaking international law on a daily basis?

Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: Why is the European Union not doing something about it? Why is it still paying lip service? It might give Israel the odd smack on the hand, as the Tánaiste knows. I do not think he believes some of what he says as.he is defending the indefensible when he refuses to stand by what the Bill is offering to do. I honestly believe his heart is not in it. We should stop defending the...

Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: Earlier this month the Israeli ambassador to Ireland stated, "The clear line between supporting Palestinians and becoming anti-Israeli is a thin one and unfortunately one that is being crossed all too often." What he did not say was that Palestinians were living under the tyranny of a brutal apartheid state. They are suffering and dying every day at the hands of the Israeli Administration,...

International Protection (Family Reunification) (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...returned to Syria now that things are normalising somewhat again and the government is actually getting control of the place. They are getting rid of the jihadists who were mostly funded by the US, Israel and the Saudis. Unfortunately we have not been told the truth about Syria very much. On much of the news, even on RTÉ, they used to quote the White Helmets and the Syrian...

Climate Change: Statements (6 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...that gas is a transition fuel to renewable gas. The US national security adviser John Bolton, is screaming that the EU has to stop buying evil Russian gas and should be buying it from saintly Israel and the US in the interest of global freedom and so-called democracy. Royal Dutch Shell invented the idea of gas as a bridge fuel in 2001. Nearly 20 years later we are saying the same thing...

Topical Issue Debates: Diplomatic Representation (24 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: What about Saudi Arabia and Israel?

Palestine: Statements (15 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Israelis have adopted a dangerous mindset. They seem to think they can destroy the national aspirations of the Palestinians by military force. Israel is engaged in apartheid in its own country. What it is engaged in in the Gaza Strip and on the West Bank is nothing short of genocide. The Minister knows that no one else would get away with it. The Israeli Justice Minister, Ayelet...

Palestine: Statements (15 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: Does the Tánaiste think the security of Israel would improve if it were to stop its illegal settlements programme, stop trying to destabilise Syria, stop trying to provoke a war with Iran and allow the many Palestinian refugees to return? They have a right to return. All of these things need to happen. Why are we tolerating the behaviour of Israel? Why are we still allowing Shannon...

Service by the Defence Forces with the United Nations in 2016: Motion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...at pains to point out is an observer rather than a peacekeeping mission. The rationale behind the original UNDOF deployment to the Golan Heights in 1974 was to maintain the ceasefire between the Israeli and Syrian forces and to supervise the implementation of the disengagement agreement. Today, we are facilitating the ongoing illegal occupation of the Golan Heights by Israel. The...

Other Questions: Trade Missions (25 Jan 2018)

Mick Wallace: When he sat down with Mr. Netanyahu, did the Tánaiste raise the fact that Israel has an apartheid regime at home and is engaged in genocide in Palestine?

Other Questions: Syrian Conflict (13 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: The western powers, with the prompting of Saudi Arabia and Israel, wanted regime change and interference has made the situation in Syria 100 times worse than it would have been without external interference. The centre for Syrian studies at the University of St. Andrews has stated that the reduction in living standards and aid dependency as a result of the sanctions is empowering the regime...

Situation in Syria: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...brokering services in support of such exports are also prohibited by EU regulations. Ireland has seen an increase in the value of licences for arms exports to countries like Saudi Arabia and Israel from €23 million to €132 million in the last six months of 2016 and the first six months of 2017. Israel, when it is not busy carrying out the ritual of what is called...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Deployment (11 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: The rationale behind the original UNDOF deployment to the Golan Heights in 1974 was to maintain the ceasefire between the Israeli and Syrian forces and to supervise the implementation of the disengagement agreement. Today, we are facilitating the ongoing illegal occupation of the Golan Heights by Israel. The Israeli Government recently called for an increase in settlements by 100,000 over...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Deployment (11 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: According to al-Marsad, the Arab human rights centre in the Golan Heights, the 23,000 Israeli settlers in Golan occupy 95% of the land, leaving just 5% for the 25,000 Syrians living there. In 1989 only 600 Israelis lived there but now there are 23,000 and there are plans to expand further. Given the recent reduction in US funding to the UN, is the US undermining UN missions? Does the...