Results 1-20 of 31 for israel speaker:Réada Cronin

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: When I put forward this question last week, I hoped we would not find ourselves in a position where Israel had already closed off Rafah. While the real ground offensive has not yet started, Israel certainly has moved in the tanks. The reason the full ground offensive has not started is that the United States is withholding arms and bombs. Today, 9 May, is Europe Day. We in Europe really...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...a bit of learning to the professors. They hit Trinity College where it hurt. They hit it in the purse by blocking people from getting to see the Book of Kells. That is where we should be hitting Israel as well. Will the Tánaiste indicate in his supplementary answer what is happening with the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill? The students have given us a lesson in how...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: 53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the latest worrying statements by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Israel Defense Forces, IDF, action in Rafah will speed up Ireland’s recognition of the state of Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20882/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Middle East (9 Apr 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...and/or companies, either Irish or multi-national Irish based, with which it confers, consults or liaises on matters of defence and security, have no financial or other material interest in Israeli companies, companies in the OPT, or engage in activities beneficial to or related to the IDF or any other Israeli military or security operations, given Israel’s ongoing actions in Gaza...

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

Réada Cronin: ...work with like-minded countries in the EU, or elsewhere, to organise an airdrop of emergency food and medical supplies to the people of Gaza who are being bombed, shelled, starved and besieged by Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10892/24]

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

Réada Cronin: ...Affairs and Trade what political and/or diplomatic actions Ireland is taking at EU level, in the matter of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s high-profile and unilateral support for Israel, and particularly, given the recent remarks of the High Representative of EU and Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Mr Josep Borrell, on how those actions have had “a high...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (6 Mar 2024)

Réada Cronin: 6. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the joint Irish-Spanish diplomatic initiative demanding a review of how Israel is fulfilling its human-rights obligations in its conduct in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10920/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (6 Mar 2024)

Réada Cronin: 7. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he and his Government are satisfied that Israel is fulfilling its obligations in the matter of respect for human rights and democratic principles enshrined in Article Two of the EU-Israel Trade agreement; if it is not, what actions it is taking and demanding at the highest executive level of the EU in such regard; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (6 Mar 2024)

Réada Cronin: 9. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he and his Department are satisfied that Israel qualifies as suitable and appropriate as a trading partner for Ireland and the EU given its actions in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank; if he does not, what actions he is currently taking and/or intends to take to address that situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (6 Mar 2024)

Réada Cronin: 10. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether Ireland will impose economic sanctions on Israel; if it will not, to outline why not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10924/24]

Report of Joint Committee on Gender Equality: Motion (29 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: .... There is no greater or more pressing common cause today than the massacre of the women of Gaza and their children. Two mothers are being killed every hour, their children left grieving. Thirteen thousand children killed by Israel leave their mothers mourning them forever. It is a deliberate act on the part of Israel to target mothers, the glue in families and throughout the...

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

Réada Cronin: The ICJ ruling on South Africa's case was momentous and historic, with jurisdiction granted and conditions of plausible genocide accepted and Israel's attempt to have the case thrown out emphatically rejected. Israel remains on trial in the matter of the genocide of the Palestinian people. If the state of Israel was an ordinary criminal rather than alleged war criminal and was in front of...

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

Réada Cronin: Apart from the word "genocide", words do not exist to describe the atrocities being committed by Israel against the Palestinian people. There is mass murder by bombs and drones, people are crushed to death, suffocated and now there is starvation, diarrhoea, infection and dehydration. The living are maimed, disabled and blinded. There is no anaesthetic for amputations or Caesarean sections....

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

Réada Cronin: ...been very different. Entire Palestinian families have been wiped out and entire neighbourhoods and communities wiped from the face of the earth. Not only did President von der Leyen not condemn Israel but she also gave its grotesque actions Europe's "full support". Nowhere in Gaza is safe. Homes, hospitals and schools have been obliterated. Places of worship have been bombed and...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: .... It is another sign of climate change. The Minister of State mentioned the war in Palestine. In his opening statement, he said the "attack by Hamas was one of the worst acts of terrorism that Israel has ever experienced", which it was. The number of displaced people in Gaza has reached 1.7 million. As more bodies are now being found, some reports suggest the numbers killed could...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: Given the Irish ambassador to Israel was summoned, rebuked and reprimanded over a tweet from the Taoiseach, has the Israeli ambassador to Ireland been called in or summoned for a reprimand regarding what comes from the Israeli Embassy about Ireland funding the tunnels built by Hamas, about the genocide, and about the disrespect shown to our much-loved President?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...although] bilaterally and jointly with other donors. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has raised the issue of demolition and confiscation of humanitarian aid and Palestinian property with both the Israeli Ambassador in Dublin and directly with his Israeli counterparts during visits... Does the Minister of State think that the approach we take on this is successful in disincentivising...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: Okay. Given the fact we and the European Union are trading partners with Israel, why do we continue to let Israel away with that?

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy Report: Statements (22 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...been abandoned by those international partners referred to in the report. As is unmissably the case with Gaza, when Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gave what she called the EU’s “full support” to Israel. That full support from Ursula Von der Leyen opened hell on the innocent children of Gaza, where the civilian people of Gaza have been reduced to medieval...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Middle East (21 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: 72. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether the State is supplying and/or buying or selling arms from/to Israel, or any component parts of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50892/23]