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Seanad: Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2024)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...be moderates. It will never be Hamas, who can never be excused for what they have done, nor can the Netanyahu government ever be excused for what it has done. It will be the moderate democrats in Israel and the moderates in Palestine who will bring about this peace process and this political path, which is what we support. I refer to international institutions, the rule of law,...

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...are under way at EU level to combat that activity, including through the new EU toolboxes on hybrid threats and foreign information manipulation and interference, FIMI. Many Deputies raised the issue of Palestine and Israel. It is extremely important to respond in this regard. Deputy Bríd Smith raised the question of disinvestment. I highlight to her that on 5 April, the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Israel has the right to exist.

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after “That” and substitute the following: "Dáil Éireann resolves that the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023 be deemed to be read a second time this day nine months, to allow for further consideration of the Bill, as the Bill as drafted raises specific practical and legal questions, is not likely to achieve...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...but also to our teachers' salaries being some of the highest in the OECD. I think they are the sixth highest in the OECD, which includes most of Europe plus the United States, Canada, Israel, Korea and so on. It is a very broad group of countries. We can ask the Department about this but we will not be able to get a sense of what people are doing privately through the Department because...

Journalists in Conflicts across the World: Statements (24 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...people, producers and editors is so important to those of us who it is to be hoped will never experience conflict in ways we have seen in the likes of Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Northern Ireland, Israel, Iraq and so many other places. If the work of journalists in general is fundamental to the democratic state, it is even more important in situations of conflict to tell the individual...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...and amplifying issues that can lead to conflict resolution. As the Minister knows, I am a member of both of the parliamentary friendships groups that are reflected here tonight. The Ireland-Israel parliamentary friendship group has, on the Israeli side, one male Jewish member of the Knesset and one female Arab member of the Knesset. I am also a member of the cross-party Oireachtas...

Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel: Statements (20 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister for sharing his time. It is not acceptable to use children and civilians as human shields, and it is not acceptable to harm and kill them where they are being so used. The Israel Defense Forces, IDF, claimed this week that it is doing everything it can to avoid civilian casualties but given that nearly half of the casualties in Gaza are women and children, their doctors...