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Restriction of Imports (States in violation of obligations under the Genocide Convention and Occupied Territories) Bill 2024: First Stage (8 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: ...resources from an occupied territory in certain circumstances; and to provide for related matters. This Bill is co-sponsored by the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and Deputy Pringle. It arises out of Israel's response to the horrendous attack on its territory by Hamas on 7 October last. The attack was barbaric, in complete flagrant violation of all the norms of war and conflict and devoid of...

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

Michael McNamara: ...credibility. We were clapping like seals in here when Ursula von der Leyen came. The woman is a warmonger. She was a warmonger then and she is a warmonger now. She is interested in selling arms. Israel is a great place to sell arms, as is the Middle East generally. Do not get me wrong, it is not just western firms that want to sell their arms there. There is the Iranian arms...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: ...of State said the supervision regime is by ComReg. Is the Minister of State saying that it can be enforced against a multinational operating in Ireland even if the component itself is located in Israel, for example?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Japan, China, Israel and so on are all countries with very advanced high-tech sectors. What did the Minister of State say ComReg was going to do?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Okay. So ComReg will go to Israel or Japan to supervise this?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: ComReg has great difficulty in supervising mobile phone access in rural County Clare much less giving them powers or requiring them to supervise something in Israel or the Xinjiang province in China, or take your pick of locations around the world.

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021: Motion (5 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: ...was introduced, the evidence was slightly different. It is still evolving. A recent study based on a considerable amount of data from the Maccabi Institute for Health Services Research in Israel showed that immunity acquired following recovery from Covid is far greater than the immunity acquired through the vaccine. That does not mean people should go out and get Covid because there are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Michael McNamara: ...there were 293 people on trolleys, 60 of them in Limerick. We know that sort of overcrowding is a recipe for disaster in the event there is another wave of Covid. If we look to other countries, like Israel, where the success of the vaccine roll-out was lauded, there has been another wave. There will be more and more waves but all I hear is that we are putting all our eggs in the...

Health (Amendment) Act 2021: Motion (27 May 2021)

Michael McNamara: ...of Ireland. I do not see a contradiction between the two but the Minister increasingly drives a wedge between the two. That is a very damaging thing. To go back to the countries put on the list, Israel was maintained on the list on the basis of on outdated data. When that was challenged in court, the case was settled and Israel was immediately taken off the list. I do not think...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: ...but we cannot say that with certainty, any more than we can say with certainty that there is immunity from having contracted the virus. That is generally accepted and it informs the approach of Israel, which is considered to be a world leader in vaccination. Israel afforded certain additional freedoms to people who had been vaccinated or who had immunity arising from infection and...