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Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: I welcome the decision of the Taoiseach to call on the European Commission to urgently review the EU-Israel association agreement, but I argue that real action would be to trigger Article 82 to immediately suspend the association agreement while a review is being conducted. It is worth comparing this with the actions in respect of UNRWA and the allegations relating to 12 UNRWA workers. That...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: ...are broken as we have watched the genocide unfold in front of our eyes over the last number of months. It has called into question the myth of western democracy when we sit back and watch what the Israeli occupied forces are meting out to the Palestinian people. There is a level of hypocrisy by the West in its response to the actions of Israel when compared to the swiftness - and rightly...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Dec 2023)

Lynn Boylan: .... I do not use this word lightly. It is genocide and the most brutal collective punishment of a civilian population that I think the world has witnessed. Nobody should be doing business with Israel now. It should be boycotted and shunned as a rogue nation where human life holds no value whatsoever. Israel is chasing Palestinian people down from block to block and now telling them to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Agreements (29 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I thank the Leas-Cathaoirleach. Given that it is UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, I raise an issue related to the Israel-Palestine conflict that has been overshadowed.Like all conflicts, there is always a material aspect to the war. For decades, Israel has exploited Palestinian natural resources in contravention of international law. A recent study by the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Agreements (29 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...that because we are a member state, EU policy dictates the view or perception of where Ireland's position is. We have seen that with the Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, going out to Israel, and the damage that did to cohesion within the EU because she took a position that was contrary to that of the majority of member states. Has the Tánaiste raised the exclusion of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I again raise the situation in Israel and Palestine. I start by welcoming the release of four hostages and call for the release of all the hostages taken on 7 October by Hamas. I will focus on the increasingly dire situation in Gaza and once again call for a ceasefire and for Israel to act within international law. The drip feed of aid and the refusal by the Israeli state to allow fuel...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...for what happened. We must, however, be honest that it did not happen in a vacuum. I was in Palestine in 2014 following Operation Protective Edge, when Gaza was bombarded and carpet-bombed by the Israel Defense Forces.There I witnessed, with my own eyes, humanitarian aid being blocked from going into Gaza. I witnessed trauma packs for young children to deal with the carpet bombing and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...May while reporting and doing her job as a journalist from the occupied West Bank. There are strong reports she was targeted by the Israeli army. She was only 51 years of age. We cannot forget Israel's first reaction after her death, namely, the heavy-handed raid of her home and the confiscating of Palestinian flags. The Israeli authorities then refused to conduct a criminal...

Seanad: Situation in the Middle East: Statements (1 Mar 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ..., if they did not, the residents above would throw human excrement down on their supplies. We saw the wall and the separate bus transport systems. No matter how many times people relay what the Israeli Government is facilitating and perpetrating against the Palestinians, it seems the reaction is always to deny it and make the false accusation of antisemitism. Amnesty International is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Feb 2022)

Lynn Boylan: The first issue I would like to raise is a request for the Leader to schedule time for the Amnesty International report on apartheid in Israel. The findings of this report will come as no surprise to those of us who have visited the country. The Seanad should be afforded the time to debate the findings of that report. The main issue I wish to raise is related to the cost of living....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...not a good look for any democratically elected representative. I want to focus on the health infrastructure in Gaza. Last night, we heard how Gaza's only Covid-19 laboratory was destroyed by an Israeli air strike. There is now no clinic to carry out testing for the virus. Gaza was already facing a surge in the virus and had one of the highest positivity rates at 28%. Hospitals were...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2020)

Lynn Boylan: ...no issue obtaining it because we are part of an EU-wide procurement deal. This is all very welcome news, but I wish to spare a thought for the Palestinians because it seems that even in a pandemic Israel is, with the help of the EU, facilitated in continuing its apartheid system. News broke this week that the EU deal to procure the vaccine, the deal to which Ireland is a party, is...