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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Export Controls (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: 58. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how many dual-use licences were issued to exporters to trade in dual-use items with Israel since October 2023; if he has any concern that duel use items being traded with Israel are currently being used against civilians and civilian infrastructure in the Israel-Hamas war; what actions his Department has taken under the Control of...

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

Martin Browne: I welcome the opportunity to discuss this issue. Ireland can play a significant role in laying the groundwork for international pressure to be put upon the Israeli Government to ends its actions in Gaza, but that role is not being played to its full potential. We take great pride in how we use our stance as a neutral, but not isolationist, country to be a champion for human rights and how...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: ...the decades, as well as the current bombardment, displacement and discrimination of the Palestinian people. A system of apartheid is firmly in place when it comes to the attitude adopted by the Israeli State towards the Palestinian people who, it has to be said, are not treated with the equality that the Israeli Government would demand for itself. Instead, we hear the dehumanising...

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: ...of his deep concerns about the clear violations of international humanitarian law. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said that sieges endangering civilians, collective punishment by Israel and forcible evacuation of civilians amount to war crimes. The prosecutor of the ICC has called upon state parties to the court, and non-state parties, to help collectively to vindicate the...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: On 25 October, when pre-European Council meeting statements were being discussed, the Taoiseach noted that the death toll in Gaza at the time was 5,000. The government of Israel has been moving quickly since then and attacking the Gaza Strip at such a rate that the number of deaths as a result of the bombardment of Gaza is now in excess of 10,000. It is precisely because of this rapid...

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

Martin Browne: The actions of Hamas on 7 October were unacceptable and must be condemned by all. The response from Israel must also be condemned because the actions we have seen against 2.5 million people in the largest open-air prison cannot be described as defensive. People are dying in their thousands, yet what we hear on the international stage appears to fall short of appearing like preparations for...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: ...there to go on this until the reputation of the EU institutions can recover significantly in the eyes of the public? Since the Council we have witnessed the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the push by the Israeli government to further pursue far-right ideologies. However, Israel’s ongoing activities in the occupied territories, which amount to nothing less than apartheid, have long been...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: ...been enabled by inaction on the part of this Government, the EU and others. They have sat on their hands and watched the daily slaughter of Palestinian people. Now we hear reports that, in addition to Israeli forces demolishing Palestinian homes, they want to build further settlements there. Israel has broken resolution after resolution and the Government must raise this, especially at...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Data (25 May 2021)

Martin Browne: 55. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the quantity and value of arms and dual use equipment exported by Ireland to Israel each year for the past ten years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27875/21]