Results 1-20 of 31 for israel speaker:Bríd Smith

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...than words. I start by paying tribute to the very brave and committed students of Trinity College Dublin who, after five or six days of a sit-in, managed to get full boycott divestment from the Israeli state from the authorities in the university. This is a very hopeful sign in the midst of what is a desperate and hopeless situation as Israel moves to its next stage of onslaught against...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...to get people like the Tánaiste, the rulers of the world, to listen. I call him ruler. I understand he is an elected ruler, but he has much more power than I have. If it was within my power, the Israeli ambassador would have been put out of here long ago. The Government could do that but it is refusing to do it. I love the talk but we need action. Children are dying, as we...

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...see is the level of approval for the way the EU is handling the Russian invasion of Ukraine is going downwards. More stark is the fact that there is even less approval for the EU's response to the way the Israeli-Gaza conflict, or, should I say, the war by Israel on Gaza, is being handled. Some 64% in the Republic and 72% in the North report being unsatisfied. In the context of some...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Israel is moving into the next stage of its murderous onslaught in Rafah. There are no words to describe the horrendous outcome we may see where 1.5 million Palestinian people are under bombardment in a small area of land. In the midst of this horrendous scene, it is heartening and uplifting to see students at Trinity College Dublin taking action to insist on divestment, sanctions and an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: It has a colony called "Israel".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...very least, God help us and God help Gaza because you are literally not doing anything. The Tánaiste has said we will recognise the Palestinian state but will not take serious sanctions against Israel as we did against South Africa when it was an apartheid state and its tyranny was recognised throughout the world. We took serious sanctions against South Africa and that helped to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: What about the behaviour of the US as a state? What about the ironclad guarantee to Israel? Is that okay?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: A statement made by Joe Biden to the effect that Israel has an ironclad guarantee of US support is making headline news today. We should all acknowledge that this is no surprise whatsoever. Israel has always had an ironclad guarantee of US support. The US has always had Israel's back, particularly during the genocide in Gaza. The only thing the US has ever done is urge Israel to be...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (9 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 1031. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 260 of 21 March 2024, to detail the two consignment of cattle shipped to Israel specifically when these shipments were made; the number of cattle involved and the private entity that arranged it; to further clarify if Department officials inspected these consignments; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (21 Mar 2024)

Bríd Smith: 260. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if cattle are still being exported to Israel from Ireland; if so, how this is appropriate, given that the people of Gaza are being starved and face famine; if the Government has any intention of halting the export of cattle and other foodstuffs to Israel in the face of impending famine in Gaza; if he accepts that this is seen by...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)

Bríd Smith: .... In February 2024, Hungary voted against an immediate ceasefire. Here is the record of very powerful European countries and leaders. Germany, for example, sent more than 1,000 tank engines to Israel. German-made diesel engines are used in the fighter vehicles that are produced in Israel. An Italian company has sold armaments worth almost €120 million to Israel in the past...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...stop Russia and others having a veto on Security Council resolutions, he has never mentioned, nor does he seem to have a problem with, the fact that the US has vetoed 34 resolutions against the conduct of Israel in Palestine. As recently as 18 October, the US vetoed a UN resolution in support of a humanitarian pause in Gaza. Will the Tánaiste comment on that? It seems to me that...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Data (23 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: 43. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he can detail the total volume and value in euro of Ireland's exports to and imports from the state of Israel; the categories of products exported and imported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51602/23]

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: ..., almost glaring, contradictions in what the Minister of State has just said. Both he and the Tánaiste are at pains to create this equivalence by all of the time going on about 7 October and what Israel is doing without, by the way, ever once condemning Israel. There are two pieces that I am going to pull out from what the Minister of State has just said, the first of which is on...

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...is arguing we should isolate ourselves from world events. In fact, we in this House on the left lead the chants to support the people of Gaza and Palestine and get rid of the brutal oppression that Israeli forces are visiting on them. We must remember that millions of troops passed through Shannon during the Iraq war and this is likely to continue unless we really question where we...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will call in the Israeli ambassador to Ireland to establish the steps that are being taken in relation to the escalating violence by Israel on Palestinians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19618/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (21 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he had any discussions on the impacts of Israel’s continued aggression and illegal occupation of Palestinian territory and its destabilising effects on the region during his recent trip to Lebanon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5133/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (16 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...a discussion about sanctions on Belarus. It is inevitable that the EU would discuss that but it is extraordinary that there has been no discussion at that level about possible sanctions on Israel. The fragile truce is now broken and, as we speak, Israeli aircraft are bombing Gaza yet again. Those 11 days of vicious attacks on the Gaza Strip led to over 260 deaths. We do not know where...

Annexation of Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...1,000% with the Palestinian people and call for the ultimate sanctions - the ultimate sanction of expulsion of the ambassador, the ultimate sanction of imposing boycott, divestment, sanctions, BDS, on Israel and the ultimate sanction of full solidarity.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: IDA Ireland (31 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 174. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the IDA seeking to establish links with businesses in Israel; if he will take steps to ensure that there is no cooperation between Ireland and the Israeli state, given its treatment and repression of the Palestinian people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16445/21]