Results 1-20 of 40 for israel speaker:Patrick Costello

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (9 Apr 2024)

Patrick Costello: 33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts his Department are making to ensure the ICJ meet to assess the accountability of Israel in relation to the preliminary ruling issued in the South African case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14800/24]

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

Patrick Costello: ...is not about the numbers, the method used or the time it takes to happen. Before the current brutal phase of this long conflict, we saw the brutality of the occupation, with settlement building by Israel in contravention of international law, land confiscations, land closures and house demolitions. We have seen a military occupation that is brutalising and dehumanising to Palestinians....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (16 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...Affairs and Trade if Ireland is compliant with the European Council Common Position 2008/944/CFSP of 8 December 2008 in relation to checks on US military at Shannon Airport on goods destined for Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50301/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (16 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: 56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department is carrying out checks at Shannon Airport on US military vehicles which are stopping off enroute to Israel and other jurisdictions; if so, the number that have taken place in the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50300/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (16 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...call for an Emergency UN General Assembly under the Uniting for Peace Resolution, as the UN Security Council has failed to adequately act as required to maintain international security and peace in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50316/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Middle East (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...the statement by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, outlining that the ICC has jurisdiction over possible war crimes carried out in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel (details supplied), if he will push for the ICC to open an investigation into potential war crimes in the region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48052/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Middle East (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: 120. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will engage with the International Court of Justice to provide Ireland's opinion on the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories in February 2024; what this opinion will entail; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48053/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Contracts (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: 195. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline the value of all contracts for goods or services purchased by the Defence Forces from Israel and Israeli-based firms over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48042/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Data (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: 409. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the overall trade in goods or services exchanged between Ireland and Israel and Israeli-based firms over the last five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48043/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: 410. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way his Department applies the whole-of-government approach regarding Ireland's policy on differentiation between Israel and the illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land; the practical steps his Department takes in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48044/23]

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Patrick Costello: In 2014, I spent some months in occupied Palestine as a human rights observer. In these dark days, the people and activists I met both in Israel and in Palestine are never far from my thoughts. What was perpetrated against innocent civilians in the attacks by Hamas was horrendous. Nothing can justify it. The scale and the nature of the bombing in Gaza in response is worse than anything we...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (12 Oct 2023)

Patrick Costello: 71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way his Department applies the whole-of-Government approach regarding Ireland's policy on differentiation between Israel and the illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land; the practical steps his Department takes in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44620/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (28 Sep 2023)

Patrick Costello: I would highlight the difference between calling out and action. We have certainly taken much action in terms of economic sanctions against Russia that we have not against Israel. If we are supporting international law, let me ask this question. The International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, conference is happening now. Israel is well known to have nuclear weapons. The Department of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (28 Sep 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...two-state solution is still possible, and what steps Ireland will take individually and at a European level to realise a two-state solution in the face of continued breaches of international law by Israel, ongoing illegal settlement building and expansion, forcible transfer of the Palestinian population by Israel and escalating settler violence with government support. [41757/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (28 Sep 2023)

Patrick Costello: The first part of my question has been answered with regard to whether the two-state solution is possible. For me there is frustration. Why do we continually allow Israel to commit vast numbers of war crimes and breaches of international law with complete impunity?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (28 Sep 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...In the question I have mentioned settlement building, settlement expansion, state-supported settler violence, demolitions and the forced transfer of Palestinian populations. What we are witnessing is Israel deliberately inflicting on Palestinians actions and conditions of life designed to destroy them within the West Bank. They are designed to destroy Palestinian communities in the West...

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

Patrick Costello: ...in here, but really this is something we should all be talking about consistently. What we have seen in Jenin is, in many ways, business as usual for the occupied state of Palestine. There is an Israeli NGO called Breaking the Silence, which is quite frequently targeted by the Israeli Government simply for speaking the truth. We know from Breaking the Silence that the sort of war crimes...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (21 Mar 2023)

Patrick Costello: 579. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade given the recent transfer of jurisdiction for the Israeli civil administration in occupied Palestine away from military command, if he will now accept that de jure annexation of occupied Palestine by Israel is now happening; if he still believes de facto annexation is taking place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13986/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick Costello: 222. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he considers the unequal treatment of Palestinians in Israel and in the occupied Palestinian territory, as well as the discriminatory practices towards the Palestinian people on a regular basis, as crimes against humanity which the international community is obliged to oppose and to act, individually and collectively, to end. [10646/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick Costello: 223. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he agrees with the former Attorney General of Israel (details supplied) that this is now a one-state reality, with two different peoples living with unequal rights, and that Israel's entire society is implicit in this unjust reality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10647/23]