Results 1-20 of 62 for israel speaker:Gary Gannon

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: .... Now the EU finds itself complicit in the very evils I understood it was born to stamp out. Spearheading this complicity is Ursula von der Leyen, who is unashamedly partisan in favour of the Israeli state and its crimes against Palestine, a state which, with the attention of all the world on it, is committing genocide and ethnic cleansing and has violated every human rights law and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: On 14 November last year, when deputising in the position the Taoiseach now holds, he said that Israel had been blinded by rage and warned that peace could not be built on the graves of children. In the almost six months since then, the lives of 15,780 children have been lost. As we sit here today, the invasion of Rafah is impending. Rhetoric has been strong from the Irish State - there is...

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

Gary Gannon: ...December European Council meeting, we lamented the post-Council conclusions and how they were divorced from the reality on the ground in Gaza. They condemned Hamas in the strongest terms and recognised Israel’s right to defend itself in line with international law. Only thirdly did the conclusions express the European Council’s grave concerns about the deteriorating...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)

Gary Gannon: 7. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government has made a decision on if and when Ireland will support South Africa's case against Israel in the ICJ, which alleges that the latter is committing genocide in Palestine. [11134/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)

Gary Gannon: Has the Government made a decision on if and when Ireland will support South Africa's case against Israel at the ICJ? On 30 January, the Tánaiste informed the Dáil that an urgent legal analysis of South Africa's case to the ICJ had commenced. Has that analysis been concluded? What was the determination in that regard? I would like to know what the Government is going to do.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...to the genocide convention. Nothing is stopping us from initiating our own case, which the court, if it chose, could align with South Africa's case. It was built very strongly on the area of the Israeli Government's rhetoric. We would also have particular foreign affairs-related expertise concerning many factors. One achievement of the Tánaiste's Department has been the banning of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Relations (7 Mar 2024)

Gary Gannon: Could the Tánaiste outline whether he expressed that Ireland is protesting against Israel's actions in Gaza? The ambassador was summoned with that purpose in mind, namely, for us to outline that under the Geneva Convention Israel is obliged to avoid genocide, indicate that we feel that what is happening in Gaza meets the criterion in that regard and to ask Israel to account for itself....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Relations (7 Mar 2024)

Gary Gannon: The Tánaiste has at several points today referenced the need for the international community to keep the pressure on Israel. One way we in Ireland can do that is to summon the ambassador, as would be the normal diplomatic convention. Why has the Tánaiste not done that to date?

Second Anniversary of War in Ukraine: Statements (20 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: .... While sanctions and widespread condemnations followed Russia’s actions in Ukraine, the response to the conflict in Palestine and to the invasion of Gaza has been far more muted with fewer repercussions for Israel; in fact, none at all. This disparity raises concerns about international hypocrisy. The selective application of principles, depending on geopolitical interests, has...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Middle East (15 Feb 2024)

Gary Gannon: 35. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on an organisation (details supplied) playing Israel in a EuroBasket qualifier, despite the ongoing genocide committed by Israel in Palestine. [6878/24]

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...such a charge. The ICJ has given its preliminary ruling. It has ruled by an overwhelming majority that it is plausible that a genocide is being inflicted upon the Palestinian people by the State of Israel. The enormity of that charge is absolutely incredible. We should all take a step back to consider the times in which we are living. The Tánaiste fails time and again to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Gary Gannon: 76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade at what stage and in which conditions he would deem it appropriate to define Israel's killing of Palestinians as genocide. [3068/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Gary Gannon: 79. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline explicitly his reasons for not being in favour of backing South Africa's case accusing Israel of the genocide of Palestinians in the International Court of Justice. [3069/24]

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2024)

Gary Gannon: I move amendment No. 2: To delete "strongly consider an intervention in the South Africa v Israel case at the ICJ, as a matter of urgency after the Court has made its order on preliminary measures" and substitute with "will intervene in the South Africa v Israel case at the ICJ, as a matter of urgency after the Court has made its order on preliminary measures".

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...;" "— appoint a senior team of legal officials chaired independently to assess questions of the risk of, and/or ongoing genocide and/or failures to prevent and punish incitement to genocide by Israel and Ireland’s obligations under the Genocide Convention; — ensure that the above-mentioned assessment will include consideration of Israel’s apparent use of...

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

Gary Gannon: ...are we discussing the conclusions reached at an EU Council meeting that took place more than a month ago. Since that meeting in December, 7,000 more Palestinians have been killed as a result of Israel's barbaric actions, bringing the death toll to more than 25,000, including 83 journalists who were marked for assassination and almost 150 UN staff, at the last count. A further 45,000...

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

Gary Gannon: ...stand-out intervention occurred when, once again, the Tánaiste and Taoiseach were not present and the Minister, Deputy Harris, was in their place, and he iterated what is in our motion by saying that Israel is a state "blinded by rage" which was waging "a war on children". He went further and said, "You cannot build peace on the ... graves of children." Still, we are talking about a...

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

Gary Gannon: ...form, skirts around the issue and makes no explicit commitment to intervene on the side of South Africa in its charge that a genocide is being initiated on the population of Gaza by the State of Israel. Even more so, this motion loses any credibility when it asserts that the Government will "strongly consider an intervention in the South Africa vIsrael case at the ICJ, as a matter of...

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

Gary Gannon: ...like to express first and foremost, is that it has been three and a half weeks since we had a substantial debate in the Chamber about the types of sanctions that should be placed on the State of Israel for the horrific crusade of genocide it is waging in Gaza and now also in the West Bank. We have suggested a number of different sanctions. Some were worthy of debate, whereas others...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: 233. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government will advocate for the suspension of trade with Israel at EU level, which is governed by the EU Israel Association Agreement, due to its abhorrent violations of international law. [50256/23]