Results 1-20 of 83 for israel speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (15 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the reported torture and death of a Palestinian doctor (details supplied) in an Israeli prison, given that with their death, Gaza’s Ministry of Health reports the total number of medical personnel who have been killed since Israel’s war on Gaza broke out in October 2023 has reached 496; and if the Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...he encourage students in this country to follow the lead of students in the US by occupying universities to say there must be no connections between universities in Ireland or around the world with Israel?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Tánaiste was at Rafah two weeks ago and saw with his own eyes how Israel is blocking humanitarian aid from going into Gaza. He correctly described it as criminal and as collective punishment of the people of Gaza. There are ships gathered in Türkiye, which are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition that is trying to bring more than 5,000 tonnes of aid to the people of Gaza....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: ..., including one with more than 300 bodies at a hospital in Khan Younis and another at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza city. The Tánaiste has said the people of Gaza are being collectively punished by Israel and that he believes Israel intends to attack Rafah, where more than 1.5 million people have fled or are attempting to survive and who face being slaughtered in the coming weeks. The...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether weapons bound for Israel are transiting through Shannon Airport; if he will immediately stop the use of Shannon as a transit hub for an active enabler of the genocidal violence happening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14052/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (20 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...month, to about 200. There were 190 in October, and they have stayed at a consistently high level since then. What happened in October? There was 7 October and then the genocidal onslaught by Israel on Gaza. At the very least, it seems strange and coincidental that the carriage of munitions on civil aircraft through this country increased dramatically at the time the war in Gaza...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (28 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 37. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware that Ireland imported €5.08 billion of goods from Israel in 2022 and €2.15 billion worth in 2021 (details supplied), yet in 2020, imports were only €138 million, which was par for the course on previous years; what precipitated the jump in trade after 2020; and as a significant trading partner...

Second Anniversary of War in Ukraine: Statements (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...self-determination, democracy and human rights, their illusions will have been dismissed by the reality of seeing the very different way they have acted with regard to Palestine, where they support Israel. They are doing this not out of concern for the Ukrainian people because they have their own conflict with Russia and their own plans in terms of expansion of NATO, and in that conflict...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: I wonder whether, in the Taoiseach's discussions with Rishi Sunak, the question of financial support for Israel's genocide in Gaza came up. Britain continues to be probably the second most enthusiastic supporter of Israel globally after the US. War bonds are a type of government debt to raise capital to fund war efforts. Does the Taoiseach agree that US Treasury bonds have effectively...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...President, the most powerful political position in the European Union. Politico sums up her pitch as, "More military might, less climate talk". This is the Commission President who went to Israel to give a green light to the genocide that is now under way and continues to support that genocide. This is the Commission President who called for an accelerated process of militarisation,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: On Monday the Israeli foreign minister met with EU representatives. He showed them a video from a few years ago about plans to build an artificial island off Gaza where, basically, the Palestinians could be put. It caused eyebrows to be raised, even among those who are not very clear in their opposition to the genocide that is currently taking place. If you want a clear signal that Israel...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Just over two weeks ago the Taoiseach was asked whether Ireland would intervene on the side of South Africa against Israel's genocide at the International Court of Justice. He said very clearly that the Government does not intend to do so. He said, "I really think this is an area where we need to be very careful" and that genocide is "something very particular". It was a shameful...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: .... To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the footage posted by an organisation (details supplied) in relation to a livestock vessel which left Greenore Port for Israel on 7 December 2023, with around 3,500 young bulls on board; if he agrees that it is immoral, considering the suffering these animals experience on the journey; if he agrees that it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: What is happening in Gaza has been described as "a macabre game of Battleship". There are these tiny squares of territory where Israel says it will bomb a square, the inhabitants have to leave and if they do not leave, they will be killed and it will not be Israel's fault. Palestinians are forced to move from one tiny square to another again and again, in what is clearly an attempt at a new...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 434. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will halt live cattle exports to Israel; to provide details of how many shipments of cattle and the number of cattle that have been exported to Israel since 7 October 2023. [53354/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 205. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he supports the State referring Israel to the International Criminal Court, as was previously done by Ireland in relation to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50266/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...to withdraw and unless the policy is changed, a number will be forced to withdraw in the coming days. No other country is doing this, as far as I understand. This policy is not being applied to Israel. It is only being applied to Russian and Belarusian fighters. Those who participate in international events have received an email from the Irish Athletic Boxing Association, IABA, to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...context whereby aid to Palestine has decreased dramatically since Hungary's Várhelyi took over as the relevant Commissioner and since the Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, originally went to Israel and gave a green light for the genocidal policy that has been unleashed. I wonder whether the Taoiseach discussed it with the French Prime Minister and whether the Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (28 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 83. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he applied to enter Gaza on his recent trip to the Middle East; and if so, whether this application was blocked by Israel. [51816/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (22 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...some people here speak as if being neutral means one cannot say anything about what is happening in the world and means that one cannot speak out against oppression or condemn, for example, what Israel is doing and cannot describe it as genocide. One could not, for example, take the action of sanctions against Israel. That is not what neutrality means. It is certainly not proposed in...