Results 1-20 of 26 for israel speaker:Mairead Farrell

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: ...Europe Day is said in the shadow of the genocide currently unfolding in Gaza. The Minister will recall in October when we clearly heard from Ursula von der Leyen, who told Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel could rely on the EU. The people of Ireland were very clear in their condemnation and concern in that regard. We hear frequently that the EU needs to defend its values, but the EU also...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (18 Apr 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 129. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide the number of times the Irish ambassador to Israel has appeared on Israeli state TV and radio or written opinion pieces in Haretz in the past 12 months, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17093/24]

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

Mairead Farrell: ...are the words of South Africa's foreign minister Naledi Pandor. Gaza is at the brink of famine. António Guterres has rightly said that such a famine would be entirely man-made. The people whom Israel has not managed to kill through its indiscriminate bombing and destruction of hospitals and basic infrastructure, it is now hoping to kill by starvation. We watched in horror as...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (20 Mar 2024)

Mairead Farrell: ...99-0402 was permitted to fly and through Irish air space and land and refuel in Shannon Airport on 3 March 2024 on its way to Frankfurt (callsign SAM265) and from there to Cyprus and then Tel Aviv Israel on 4 March 2024; if he has concerns that this may breach Irish neutrality, given the allegations of war crimes and the potential genocide taking place in Palestine according to the ICJ,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 31. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland, in light of Belgium’s move to support South Africa’s case against Israel in the International Court of Justice, has plans to shift its position to one of support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3821/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (20 Feb 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he believes further action from Ireland is warranted following attacks from Israel on civilians in Rafah; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7598/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft (13 Feb 2024)

Mairead Farrell: ...was allowed to land and refuel at Shannon Airport in breach of international laws on neutrality; and if steps were taken to ensure that this aircraft was not transporting military materials to Israel in breach of the Government's duties under the Genocide Convention. [6105/24]

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

Mairead Farrell: ...it was some kind of new and important statistic or one that reflected that the end was finally in sight, but because most people wondered how we could even know that the number of deaths is falling. Israel has bombed every hospital in Gaza. No hospital in Gaza is fully functional. The infrastructure of the Gaza health ministry has been completely and utterly demolished. More UN workers...

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

Mairead Farrell: Tomorrow will mark exactly two months since most of the world's attention became focused on Israel and Palestine, but the conflict has been going on for much longer than that. Today, we saw that the visa of the UN humanitarian co-ordinator was revoked simply because she made the following statement: Nowhere is safe in Gaza and there is nowhere left to go. The conditions required to...

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

Mairead Farrell: ...I am going to leave." Those were the words we heard this morning from Ayman Shaheen as he prepared to pass the Rafah crossing into Egypt. The hell in Gaza continues and, as we debate this motion, Israeli soldiers are raiding Al-Shifa Hospital, causing more terror and more hell. Al-Shifa Hospital is where premature babies died because the hospital's incubators had no access to...

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

Mairead Farrell: ..., it would be the thin end of the wedge. Since those discussions, however, things have changed. We see genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. Yesterday, French President Emmanuel Macron was in Israel and met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. President Macron told him he wanted to organise an international coalition to fight terrorism, just like was done in Iraq,...

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

Mairead Farrell: ...it happen. We are told, and I have heard a few times in this Chamber, that even wars have rules. It cannot be the case that the breaking of those rules is okay for some countries. When the Israeli Government blatantly told us on the world stage that it would break international law once again, instead of outrage and horror, we witnessed Ursula von der Leyen telling Benjamin Netanyahu...

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

Mairead Farrell: When will the west wake up and realise that Israel is an apartheid state and has to be treated as such? How much more Palestinian land will be colonised? How much longer can international law continue to be violated and how many more Palestinians will be murdered? I recognise that the Government is a strong supporter of Palestinian people, but it is time we did far more. It is time we...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (25 May 2023)

Mairead Farrell: 106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will confirm that no Irish companies are engaged in activities in Israel’s illegal settlements in Palestine or profiting from or contributing to systematic human rights violations against Palestinian communities; the tangible systems and procedures that are in place to end any involvement in illegal Israeli settlements of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (23 Feb 2023)

Mairead Farrell: 219. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the prospects for a two state solution given the new Israeli Governments' stated position that Jews alone have an exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the land of Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9419/23]

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

Mairead Farrell: ...extreme stress, chronic anxiety and intense psychological trauma. Shireen and Julian were two revolutionary truth tellers who spoke truth to power. Those in positions of power, whether the Israeli forces or their US counterparts, cannot allow this to continue. From all sides of the House I have rightly heard criticism of the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh. We are united in our horror...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2022)

Mairead Farrell: ...to document the horrors of apartheid South Africa. Nobody was ever held accountable for his death. It is obvious why Mr. Nxumalo was murdered. It is equally obvious why another apartheid regime, Israel, last week murdered the brilliant Al Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, as she helped to document in detail the atrocities carried out by that regime. Her protective flak jacket was...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Mairead Farrell: Regarding the recent forced displacement of Palestinian households in occupied East Jerusalem, the UN last week urged Israel to halt all evictions and demolitions in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, immediately after a family was forced out of their home the previous day. I am referring to the Salhieh family. They bought their house in Sheikh Jarrah in 1967, which is a long time...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (9 Nov 2021)

Mairead Farrell: 375. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if in view of the declaration by Israel that six Palestinian civil society organisations in the Occupied Palestinian territory are terrorist organisations, his views on whether the root cause of this problem is an illegal occupation which has little regard for the human rights of Palestinians and that it is now time to take more concrete...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (3 Jun 2021)

Mairead Farrell: 111. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the mechanisms that are in place in his Department to ensure that all bilateral agreements with Israel apply only to Israel proper and do not benefit those territories illegally occupied by Israel in 1967; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30090/21]