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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Middle East (14 May 2024)

Peter Burke: ...as Dual-use items as a consequence of fact that they incorporate strong encryption for ICT security purposes. All export licence applications, including those indicating an end destination in Israel, are considered by my officials in accordance with criteria set out within the relevant dual-use and military EU and national regulations and with Ireland's international obligations and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Process (14 May 2024)

Peter Burke: ...appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure Reform, and Taoiseach to assist that Committee in its hearing on the Pre-Committee Stage Screening of the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023. My Department provided a comprehensive overview of Ireland’s trading relationship with Israel and the framework with which Ireland engages on...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Data (18 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: .... This data is available from the month of October 2023 but not from the specific date of 7 October. According to the most recent data available from the CSO, the value of goods imports from Israel in the period October 2023 to end February 2024 was €1,559 million. The value of goods exports to Israel in the period October 2023 to end February 2024 was €264 million. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Peter Burke: ...and is the number one issue facing the European Council, given the horrific context that we can see on our screens every week, the atrocities carried out in Gaza and the reprehensible response by Israel against very vulnerable people. It is also in the context of the destruction of critical infrastructure that underwrites that population, such as schools, hospitals and so many items of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Peter Burke: .... I wish him well, although I hope there is a long time to go yet in this current Dáil and look forward to working with him into the future. On the Deputy's second last question, which was about Israel, we spoke about that issue and I share his views on the importance of the Tánaiste being in the US at the moment pushing this issue, getting our voice heard at the highest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Peter Burke: ...services. They provide so much of a contribution. We need to act fairly and humanely and to work through these problems. We need to work as a society. As I mentioned about Palestine and Israel, let us not make it a wedge issue. Let us make it an issue to which we want to respond compassionately as a society and in a way that protects our own interests, protects the EU and ensures that...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: ...on this does not matter. It is the opinion of the court that matters. The court is the arbiter and it will decide. Ireland will do everything it can to ensure that Gaza gets justice and that Israel is held to account. I have said on numerous occasions that what happened in Israel was reprehensible and that the response is totally disproportionate. I absolutely condemn what has...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and all the Members for their time, for their questions and for the statements made earlier by those who contributed. On the general point about the Middle East, Israel and Gaza, I strongly challenge the contention that the Government is standing idly by and doing nothing on the issue. If one looks at the record of what we have done, one will see that we were...

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

Peter Burke: ...people, given the catastrophe inflicted by the IDF on the Gaza Strip. It is important that we remember the suffering of people in the West Bank, where there has been a surge of violence by the Israeli military and by settlers against Palestinians. We should also recall the suffering of all those who lost loved ones in the attacks by Hamas on 7 October, and those who are still held...

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

Peter Burke: ...actions: an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, urgent and effective humanitarian access, the protection of civilians, and the release of all hostages. I utterly condemn the violence committed in Israel and Gaza since 7 October and the disproportionate response we have seen coming from the Israeli Government in the intervening period. Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas on...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Peter Burke: ...of civilians must be paramount. It is an obligation under international humanitarian law. There must be accountability for civilian deaths. We are very disappointed that the truce between Israel and Palestine has been ended. The seven-day truce was seen to work, with the release of hostages and the flow of much-needed aid into Gaza. The efforts of the US, Qatar and Egypt in securing...

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

Peter Burke: ...to see some of the pictures, scenes and videos coming from the Gaza Strip. It is an area that is exceptionally densely populated. It is just over 40 km long and 12 km wide at its widest part. Israel has been bombarding the area since the original attacks in early October. The scale of the attacks in an area that is so densely populated beggars belief. It beggars belief to see a...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (25 Oct 2023)

Peter Burke: ...COP28 and damage to critical infrastructure in the Baltic Sea. I echo the Taoiseach's comments on the appalling situation in the Middle East. The Government condemns Hamas's brutal attack on Israel and recognises the right of Israel to defend itself but stresses that it must be done within the parameters of international humanitarian law. The needless destruction of life must cease....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Peter Burke: ...MFF, economic issues and migration. However, in light of events over the weekend, it may be that leaders will discuss developments in the Middle East and the conflict which has now erupted between Israel and Hamas. Along with my colleagues, I attended an informal pre-General Affairs Council, GAC, breakfast on 19 September with the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for European...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Peter Burke: ...very clear and consistent in its support, in the first instance, in the UN General Assembly. We have Government approval for a statement on the prolonged occupation and looking at how we can hold Israel to account in the International Court of Justice for how it has increased its settlements in the occupied territories in addition to many issues concerning the treatment of refugees. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Peter Burke: ...in our view, as we have been. We have a very strong track record in supporting de-escalation. I spoke about what we are doing through the UN General Assembly. I also spoke about holding Israel to account. I am pointing out what the Irish State is continuing to do. That is our political arm and the forum for it is at the European Council.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Peter Burke: .... That is what Ireland will focus on over the days and weeks ahead, trying to respect human life, trying to ensure that aid gets to those who need it most and trying to encourage and demand that Israel respect international humanitarian law and that it realise the implications of ongoing attacks. As I said, one has to be very much aware of the particular circumstances of the Gaza Strip...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Peter Burke: ...and treaty change. We are very clear that the Treaty of Lisbon is proof of enlargement and that there is capacity to work to expand the Union. We have just discussed the horrific circumstances in Israel and Palestine. When member states do not all agree on a particular course of action, the more we move to qualified majority voting for some very important decisions, the more we will end...

European Council Meeting: Statements, Questions and Answers (12 Jul 2023)

Peter Burke: ...today who is finishing her term here. We affirmed our support for a UN-based solution. We are working through this and we have been a very strong supporter at the European summits. A number of Deputies quite rightly raised the issue of Israel and Palestine. The Tánaiste issued a very strong statement earlier this month on the condemnation of illegal settlements and the violence...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Apr 2023)

Peter Burke: On Israel and Palestine, the Government response is very clear. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Micheál Martin, answered a number of questions in the House two weeks ago in his slot for questions on his portfolio. My view, and that of the Government, is that we favour a two-state solution. We are very clear that the aggression and the violence we have seen over the past...