Results 1-20 of 54 for israel speaker:Paul Gavan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)

Paul Gavan: ...has turned away from targeting climate change and towards a more militarised EU? I also want to reference how ten Irish third-level institutions are currently taking part in Horizon Europe projects with Israeli Government departments, universities and private companies. Israel is, in fact, one of the main beneficiaries of Horizon Europe, and Israel, according to the International Court...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Gavan: .... The political will is not there to do it just when that will needs to be there like never before. We should pass Deputy Brady's Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023. That would really target Israel's activities and allow us to take a lead that the rest of Europe can follow. If we wait for the EU to take action, we know no action will follow. The EU has disgraced itself...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: ...a ceasefire and there is a unified call from here this evening for an immediate ceasefire. There are two main obstacles to that: the first is the far right, disgusting, apartheid Government in Israel; equally, we must be clear, and it has been made clear by others, about the US's responsibility in this regard. It voted against a call for an immediate ceasefire yesterday for the third...

Seanad: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: ...solidarity with other countries suffering the effects of war or climate change, which is causing starvation and desperation for millions of people. The EU leaders should be ashamed that they have failed to call out Israel for its war crimes and its genocide of the Palestinian people. Even the human rights arm of Europe, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, voted in favour...

Seanad: Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Gavan: ...is effective and robust, but it also has to ensure the balance between protection from harmful content and, at the same time, protecting freedom of speech. In recent weeks, since the outbreak of Israel's war on the people of Palestine, there have been concerns about the use of the EU Digital Services Act in respect of the digital rights of Palestinians and other vulnerable...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Gavan: ...around the far right call to block the calls for a ceasefire. It was appalling to witness that happening. The International Court of Justice ruling is extremely welcome. It makes it clear that Israel has been ordered to prevent genocide. The court made an extremely powerful call but what happened afterwards is really telling. The allies of Israel, including the USA, Britain, Germany...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...surrogacy Bill. I have witnessed it first-hand.I want to once again raise the issue of Palestine and, in particular, the very powerful lobby we have received over the last week calling for the EU-Israel Association Agreement to be terminated. This is the correct call to make and I am calling on the Government to make that call at Thursday's EU Council meeting. Earlier, I looked at the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...without anything. It is very clear now that the pause was just that, a pause in the genocide, a pause to allow women and children who were held hostage to be rightly returned to their families so Israel could then continue to bomb and murder women and children in Gaza. That is what it is doing. The latest figures show 15,800 deaths, 70% of which are of women and children. It is nothing...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2023)

Paul Gavan: ..., there are fundamental points of disagreement between ourselves on the left and Fine Gael and its sister party, Fianna Fáil. Fundamentally, for example, we believe there must be consequences for Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine. There must be consequences, in particular, for the genocide that we have witnessed over the past number of weeks of over 13,000 human beings,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Gavan: ..., especially Emily Hand. The fact that children are imprisoned is one of the most horrific aspects of all of this. I remind colleagues not to forget the 173 children being interned by the Israeli authorities. That was the latest figure I could find this morning from the B'Tselem Jewish human rights group. A total of 173 children have been interned with no charges brought. They have...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...witnessing genocide. Like the previous speaker, I entirely endorse the Government's call for a ceasefire, but we have to do more because, as I pointed out yesterday, there are no consequences for Israel. How can that possibly be? If we can support sanctions against Russia, why can we not call for sanctions against Israel when it is engaged in the genocide of a population? Let no one...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...what has been happening in Palestine over the past month. A total of 11,000 Palestinian citizens have been slaughtered, including more than 4,000 children. I want to quote from Gideon Levy, an Israeli journalist and author who writes a regular column for Ha'aretz. A Hamas terrorist was taken out of the debris, carried in his father’s arms. His face is covered with dust, his...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Gavan: .... It is something that will revisit a number of people here. That is an absolute fact. When some people next stand for election, it will be remembered that they were given the opportunity to condemn Israel's actions in Gaza, including carpet bombing and the mass extermination of more than 1,000 children, and they chose not to do so. That is unforgivable.

Seanad: Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Motion (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...about. I will tell the House exactly what I mean by that. Sinn Féin was very happy to support the first lines of the Government motion, "unreservedly condemns the brutal attack by Hamas in Israel on Saturday, 7th October ... last, indiscriminately, and systematically targeting civilians, and resulting in over 1,400 deaths". We were happy to support that, and Government Members know...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Oct 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...statement and I endorse every word that the mission of the state of Palestine said in relation to what has happened in the past week. The second quote is from an editorial in Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper, and is particularly interesting: The disaster that befell Israel... is the clear responsibility of one person: Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime minister, who has prided himself on...

Seanad: Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 Oct 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...it to. There has been a proliferation of European equipment, weapons and training being exported and used on a daily basis for many years now by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in Yemen and by the Israeli regime in occupied Palestine. In Yemen, the estimate of how many people have been murdered ranges from 150,000 to 377,000. As far as the European Union is concerned, it is absolutely...

Seanad: Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 Oct 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...countries. Neutrality is where we should be at and that has always been our position. I cannot go on without mentioning the human rights violations, violence and death by the apartheid state of Israel on the people of Palestine. It was so disappointing that Sinn Féin's Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill was voted down by the Government a few months ago. That Bill sought...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and occupied Palestinian territory: Statements (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...to endorse sanctions for actions, including some of those mentioned here today. There is Senator Black's excellent Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018. The Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023 was put forward in the Dáil a couple of months ago by my colleague, Deputy Brady. If passed, it would compel the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...when 700,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced and 15,000 were massacred back in 1948, but also to reflect on current horrors there. Senators will be aware in the last few days we have seen Israeli warplanes carry out a whole host of air strikes and we know that latest aggression killed 33 Palestinians, including seven children, four women and a doctor. The number of Palestinians...