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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Budget 2024, Official Development Assistance, COP28 and Ongoing Humanitarian Situations: Dóchas (21 Nov 2023)

Catherine Ardagh: .... Obviously, we are all listening to and checking our phones to see if there will be a some sort of truce, but there is no news yet. The death toll and the numbers of children in Palestine and Israel who are affected by this has given all of us nightmares. It seems like it is close to home and it has really shaken our own communities given the lack of humanity on the whole for both...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)

Catherine Ardagh: I join other members in sending our condolences to the families of the Irish citizens who were killed and to the victims of the war in Palestine and Israel so far. Many people do not quite understand the difference between Hamas and ordinary Palestinians. Getting the Tánaiste’s insight into what is happening in the conflict has been helpful. There is a great deal of...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 May 2018)

Catherine Ardagh: I would like to express my outrage, and that of the Fianna Fáil group, and condemn the actions of Israel and its use of force against unarmed Palestinian protestors, including unarmed children. An eight month old child was among the victims.The killing of 59 Palestinians can only be described as a massacre and must be condemned by the Government in the strongest possible terms. We call...