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Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the gap is less than ten and as this amendment to specifically say that Israel is responsible for this onslaught has not been accepted, we are calling for a vote by other than electronic means.

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...have endured for all these years is much worse than what they endured. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and B'Tselem, one after the other and with expert analysis, have clearly demonstrated that Israel is an apartheid state. What do we have from the Irish Government? It is a muted response. I spoke in the Dáil when the Human Rights Watch report came out, when the Amnesty...

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Minister of State knows, long before the recent disastrous events in Palestine and Israel, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and B'Tselem designated Israel as an apartheid state. On 18 July 1984 Mary Manning, a shop worker at Dunnes Stores on Henry Street, here in Dublin, refused to handle South African goods in protest against its apartheid regime. Three years later Ireland...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. I saw many of them myself when I visited the camps in Lebanon where refugees were staying with other refugees as a result of the latest wave of Israeli oppression. The Tánaiste knows there are 1.7 million Palestinian refugees in Gaza, out of a population of 2.1 million. He knows there are 880,000 refugees, impoverished people, in...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...Ireland led the way internationally in confronting that regime. How can we stand here in 2022 when there is overwhelming evidence of apartheid, as internationally defined in law, taking place in Israel and Palestine? B'Tselem, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, which are internationally respected human rights organisations, are rightly being quoted in recent days as...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...and then Ireland was the first country to put in place sanctions against the South African apartheid regime. Human Rights Watch recently published a report comprehensively demonstrating that Israel is an apartheid state, and this follows the report from the respected human rights organisation, B'Tselem. Our Government knows this. That is the context to the slaughter that is happening...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Middle East (11 May 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them". Human Rights Watch has published a key report on this issue, of which I am sure the Minister is aware. It follows reports from Israeli human rights organisations B'Tselem and Yesh Din, not to mentioned respected Palestinian human rights organisations and the concerns of the UN, that Israel is basically operating an...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Statements (23 May 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Last week the United States of America and Israel marked the locating of the United States embassy in Jerusalem. The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said it was "a glorious day for Israel". The US President, Donald Trump, said it was "a great day for Israel." For Palestinians, however, it was an horrific day as the toll of dead and injured rose. It was also the 70th...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Statements (23 May 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The brutality and savagery of the Israeli army has once again been laid bare for the world to see. The Israeli army fired live ammunition indiscriminately and it gassed protestors. The Government must give a strong and unambiguous statement that there can be no impunity for Israel's mass killing and murder of Palestinian citizens, and its continued illegal occupation of Palestine. The...

Palestine: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Dec 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...that Palestinians must take to journey to Hebron, Bethlehem and other locations. Rather than the direct route, the Palestinians must take this long circuitous route. Along the way, I saw at first hand both Israel's wall of division - its Apartheid wall built around Jerusalem - and the settlements. On the journey that day, I passed through areas A, B, and C. I visited Hebron and I saw...

Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...as a neutral state. However, sending troops to the UNDOF mission is not a simple or straightforward decision. As we know, UNDOF was set up in 1974 to patrol and monitor the strip between Syria and Israel but it has been increasingly caught up in Syria's civil war, with rebel groups attacking UN bases and kidnapping peacekeepers. Ireland was asked to provide troops to the mission after...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Contracts (18 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...dealt with earlier, but I want to develop it a little further. Undoubtedly, it is of considerable concern to the people of Ireland that we are involved in commerce with the arms business in Israel. I got the Minister's response to my letter. Regardless of the framework, we must make our own decisions in these matters.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Contracts (18 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...is facing the same sanctions reciprocally. Another example is the sanctions against Iran. I am sure there are other countries that face sanctions now. There should be severe sanctions against Israel. The reason there are not any sanctions against Israel is that it is protected at the UN Security Council. How can we, who are proud of our neutrality and our international contribution...

Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts^ (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Will the Minister and his European colleagues stand up to Israel, confront this historical injustice and defend the rights of the Palestinian people for once and for all?

Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts^ (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will be aware that a few years ago the European Union, in an important report, heavily condemned Israel for the continued settlements in the West Bank. Essentially, the 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza are in an open-air prison. The Palestinian people in the West Bank are occupied. There are between 1 million and 2 million Palestinian refugees based in Lebanon, Syria...

Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts^ (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Because it is not confronted, Israel feels it can do again what it has done before - bombard entire packed residential areas with rockets coming from naval vessels, tanks and bases throughout Israel.

Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts^ (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is an affront to international humanity and democracy. We need to call it what it is and call in the Israeli ambassador and state that the Irish people deplore the actions of his state in defiance of the international community, deplore the oppression that his state continually puts upon the Palestinian people and demand that Israel engages in talks with the Palestinian representatives,...

Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts^ (16 Jul 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...every day and almost every hour. I could tell the Minister many stories but the worst has to be the entire family of the Gaza police chief, 19 people, wiped out. This is another onslaught by the Israeli state that appears to go unchallenged. I want to know what the Minister, as Minister for Foreign Affairs, and our Government have done to challenge the Israeli state on its repeated...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Equipment (7 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 14. To ask the Minister for Defence the value of weaponry and equipment for military purpose purchased from Israel or Israeli companies or planned to be purchased from Israel or Israeli companies since March 2011. [20052/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (6 Nov 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 19. To ask the Minister for Defence the full cost of his visits to Cyprus, the Lebanon and Israel for St Patrick's Day earlier this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46635/13]