Results 1-20 of 37 for israel speaker:Gerry Adams

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

Gerry Adams: ...Gael's refusal to honour its programme for Government commitment and implement the democratic votes of both Houses to give formal recognition to the state of Palestine is wilfully shameful. Today and yesterday, there were Israeli attacks in Gaza. Ten years ago this month, Israeli forces invaded the Gaza Strip. It resulted in 13 deaths on the Israeli side, while 1,417 Palestinians were...

Palestine: Statements (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Gerry Adams: ...into the dreadful events in Palestine is in reality a call to do nothing. We are all aware of the dreadful mass killings of Palestinian protestors and the Government has rightly repudiated the Israeli Government actions. The Taoiseach claims that to expel the Israeli ambassador is against the principle and imperative of dialogue but that is not true. Recently, the Government expelled...

Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Gerry Adams: The programme for Government commits the Government to recognising the state of Palestine. The decision by President Trump to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the announcement by Vice President Pence that the US embassy will move to Jerusalem have heightened tension in the region. According to the UN, at least 345 Palestinian children have been injured and at least 17...

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Dec 2017)

Gerry Adams: ...states the Government will honour its commitment to recognise the state of Palestine. Today President Trump is expected to announce his intention to formally recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the US embassy there. That is in flagrant breach of the international consensus on a two-state solution. Will the Taoiseach urge President Trump not to take this provocative...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)

Gerry Adams: ...a half years ago the Dáil and the Seanad voted to do this but the Government, thus far, has refused to act. The Taoiseach still has time before he goes. The Government recognises the state of Israel, which is fair enough, but the failure to stand up for the rights of Palestinians has led to multiple acts of oppression and discrimination, including the stripping away of Palestinian...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Gerry Adams: ...? I again raise the issue of Palestine and the Taoiseach's downright stubborn refusal to follow through on the Oireachtas motion that acknowledged the state of Palestine. He knows that the Israeli Government will build another 566 new settler homes in east Jerusalem. An internal report by EU member states' ambassadors to the Palestinian territories filed only last month has warned of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (8 Dec 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...Oireachtas all-party and non-party agreement on the issue. There is no other explanation. If the Government wanted to recognise the state of Palestine, it would do so. The Government recognises the State of Israel, which is fair enough, but to recognise one without recognising both shows a considerable bias. Such tilting against the underdog drives the warmongers in the region. If we...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Nov 2015)

Gerry Adams: .... In his reply, the Taoiseach essentially read out the content of that letter. We want to see the Government recognising the state of Palestine. It is quite right that we recognise the State of Israel. I support that position and I believe in a two-state settlement. Why is this country recognising one state but not the other state? The notion that it should have to wait until there...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...is stalled, can the Taoiseach shed light on this? I am pleased the Taoiseach mentioned the question of the deteriorating situation in Palestine, to which I wish to return. The death toll in that region is rising and Israel continues to seal off neighbourhoods in occupied East Jerusalem. When I was there recently, the local people showed me where this would develop in the future and...

European Council: Statements (20 Oct 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...violations. The EU is offering a carrot to the Government of Turkey and a stick to refugees. This is not a morally sustainable position. Before the Council meeting, my colleague Deputy Seán Crowe raised with the Taoiseach the issues in Palestine and Israel. I see nothing in the meeting's agreed conclusions to indicate that this was raised by the Taoiseach as requested by my...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Overseas Visits (9 Jun 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...Israeli settlements on the West Bank when she cited the Bible to justify Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. She stated: We expect as a matter of principle of the international community to recognise Israel's right to build homes for Jews in their homeland, everywhere.... This land is ours. All of it is ours. We did not come here to apologise for that. The Government needs to have...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (15 Apr 2015)

Gerry Adams: 660. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise with the Israeli ambassador the case of a person (details supplied) who, for unexplained security reasons, was refused a visa to enter Israel, from where the person planned to travel to Dublin in order to attend, as an invited speaker, a conference organised by SIPTU on 28 March 2015; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (15 Apr 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the case a person (details supplied) whose sole activity is in helping traumatised and injured children and women in Gaza but who was prevented from entering Israel, from where that person planned to travel to Dublin to attend, as an invited speaker, a SIPTU conference on 28 March 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14741/15]

European Council: Statements (24 Mar 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...have been left waiting for two years to have very modest support - shows, in many ways, the conservatism of this Government. Just before the European Council meeting took place there was elections in Israel and the right wing Likud Party received the highest share of the vote and Benjamin Netanyahu is attempting to form a coalition government this time. However, in the run up to last...

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

Gerry Adams: ...a rinne páirt maith sa Seanad leis an obair seo - will support the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, recognise a Palestinian state, and endorse the right of the Palestinian people to independence and sovereignty. This is a substantive and positive development which means that we are standing with progressive opinion, including in Israel, which wants a lasting...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (9 Dec 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...Governments have given to the development of a viable, sovereign Palestinian state, and their support for the achievement of a sovereign State of Palestine existing in peace with its neighbours including the State of Israel; — as of 8 December 2014, 135 countries have formally recognised the State of Palestine, including eight EU member states - the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (2 Dec 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...it uphold international law and employ our reputation in terms of our peace process and our history to set an example and to defend the two-state proposition regarding the right of the people of Israel and, particularly and especially, the right of the people of Palestine. That can take many forms. One example is the attitude towards the Palestinian mission. I have asked numerous times...

European Council Meeting: Statements (5 Nov 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...an Irish MEP. In October I met with Dr. Mohammed Maqadama, head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, medical mission in Gaza, who was visiting Ireland. As I detailed yesterday, Dr. Maqadama spoke of how devastating Israel's military bombardment of Gaza was, how medical personnel were directly targeted while on duty, and how much money and goodwill are needed to rebuild...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...point. The starting point must be the Government stating it wants to do something about this issue, but it has not taken that decision. Once one takes that decision, it is A, B and C stuff. The Israeli Government is in breach of international law. The separation wall and the blockade of Gaza are in breach of international law. The settlements are illegal and in breach of international...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)

Gerry Adams: .... I asked a number of questions of the Taoiseach about Gaza and the onslaught there and he did not answer one of them in his response. We all know that more than 2,000 people were killed by the Israeli Defence Forces, including more than 500 children, and that the Israeli Government is in breach of international law, humanitarian law and criminal law. The question is what the people of...