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Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...in Gaza. Including in this motion, we have unequivocally condemned the attacks of 7 October and we mourned with the innocents who lost their lives that day. We knew what was coming because Israel and Netanyahu said it. Our own President acknowledged that Israel had stated it was going to repeatedly break international law. That is what has happened from that date to this moment with...

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...us have been Ursula von der Leyen and Joe Biden. As a whole, this House extended to them a very warm welcome and one of respect in order to hear what they had to say. However, from 7 October, when Israel was responding to the Hamas attacks, which we all condemn wholeheartedly as barbaric attacks, it was Ursula von de Leyen and Joe Biden who were the first two global leaders to go out to...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: In his closing remarks, the Tánaiste articulated a desire that all of us share for a just and sustainable peace in Israel and Palestine, especially for the Palestinian people. The events in Jenin on 3, 4 and 5 July make that goal, which was already so far distant, appear even further away. This is an escalation in the conflict that we have not seen in probably 20 years. This is not a...

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...and was sequenced in South Africa. Straightway, the punishment and the restrictions were applied to that region, even though Omicron is everywhere. It is here, it is in the US, the UK, Europe, Asia and Israel; it is everywhere. Hopefully, we do not need to bring in measures such as mandatory hotel quarantine again. Hopefully, we can use our powers within this House and our own domestic...

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Statements (15 Dec 2020)

Duncan Smith: ...with the area of disarmament, is a weakness. It has been a weakness for 50 years. That is why we need the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Three states, namely, India, Pakistan and Israel, have been outside the treaty and have developed and held nuclear weapons for a long period. They have been joined by North Korea in the past four years. There are immediate...

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (14 May 2020)

Duncan Smith: ...something we as politicians are not always able to do to the same effect. For example, over 240 Irish and international artists came together yesterday to back Amnesty International's campaign calling for a military embargo on Israel until it fully complies with its obligations under international law and urging an end to Israel's siege of Gaza amid the Covid-19 pandemic. That is a...