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Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I have one further supplementary question regarding the two-state solution. The Israeli Government, as currently composed, has set its face against the latter. Prime Minister Netanyahu has said that something that, had somebody from the Palestinian side said it, would be a criminal offence in Britain. He said that there must be one state from the Jordan to the sea, meaning the...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I have a follow-up question on whether anything in particular has happened in respect of the EU-Israel association agreement and the humanitarian conditions. Deputy Howlin referenced a framework and working with whomever we can work with in the EU and beyond, but particularly the Arab world. Obviously, we should do that. Are we looking at whether anything can be done with partners out...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: ...on this does not matter. It is the opinion of the court that matters. The court is the arbiter and it will decide. Ireland will do everything it can to ensure that Gaza gets justice and that Israel is held to account. I have said on numerous occasions that what happened in Israel was reprehensible and that the response is totally disproportionate. I absolutely condemn what has...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...the war on Ukraine. If we cannot do it at that level, what can we do among the countries that are more supportive on this? What actions have we taken? What conversations have we had about the EU-Israel Association Agreement and those humanitarian conditions? If we are talking very specifically about the support, we are now getting soundings from the Government that at some point there...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Peter Burke: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and all the Members for their time, for their questions and for the statements made earlier by those who contributed. On the general point about the Middle East, Israel and Gaza, I strongly challenge the contention that the Government is standing idly by and doing nothing on the issue. If one looks at the record of what we have done, one will see that we were...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...a Republic and we should now make our rhetoric mean something. For the record, a Cheann Comhairle, I would not tolerate anti-Semitism on any level or be in anybody's company in that respect. It is a false argument to put that up because criticising the Israeli Government, its army and what it is doing is utterly and completely different to being anti-Semitic. What is happening now is...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: ...three questions. Briefly, the voices that have been very clear on every side of the House, including from the Government backbenches, calling for Ireland to join with South Africa in its case against Israel in the International Court of Justice. Can the Minister of State in very clear terms spell out what the Government's position is and the timelines he expects, not when it is mindful...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle. There is a huge level of agreement on what is going on in Gaza. It is a slaughter of the innocents by the Israelis. We all know of the huge power differentials and whatever else. We are talking in the context of the EU Council. There was a failure to get any sort of agreement calling for a ceasefire as this slaughter continues. There is...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: ...the horrendous war we are seeing unfold. Many Members have spoken about this since the October attacks by Hamas, which were atrocious and have rightly been condemned. Yet, the response from the Israel Defense Forces has been disproportionate. It has been an attack on civilians, including the vulnerable and the young. Most sick of all were the attacks on hospitals. They can talk about...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...in Gaza is atrocious. Is mór an trua é that the European community and European states cannot have a unanimous, cohesive call for a ceasefire. It is appalling from Hamas and it is doubly appalling what Israel is doing. It is a pity that weakness is there. We are showing that weakness. If the EU as a project is to stick together and have any respect on the world stage, surely...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Mark Ward: I want to follow up on what my colleague Deputy Andrews was saying about Israel deliberately targeting Palestinian athletes. Chris was right; sport has the power to change the world. I commend the Dublin women's football team for taking a stand at the weekend in support of Palestine. I was in the West Bank 14 months ago and met the head of the Palestinian Football Association. He told me...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Emer Higgins: ...on this issue and I am glad that we are showing leadership internationally. Ireland was amongst the first countries in the world to call for a ceasefire. We are already in a court case, holding Israel to account, and our Attorney General will travel next month to the Hague to give evidence. We are using our diplomatic channels to assert Palestine's right to its own state and we are...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: ...the world and the power to inspire. When you see the Dublin women's Gaelic football team and their brave and inspiring call for a ceasefire in Gaza, you realise how true Mandela's words are. Israel is targeting Palestinian athletes, their sports clubs and their facilities. Yarmouk Stadium in Gaza has been turned into a detention centre for men and boys, who are daily stripped, beaten...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Thousands of people will gather outside the Dáil at 5.30 this evening to express their absolute outrage and fury at the genocidal massacre Israel is inflicting on the people of Gaza as we speak, blowing children, mothers and innocent civilians to bits, blowing up residential buildings, schools, hospitals, churches and mosques, starving the people of water, food and electricity, and...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: .... As there was no conflict, there was no need for the use of arms. We now have two major conflicts where arms, munitions and the supply of same are the key issues. I am referring to Ukraine and Israel's attack on Gaza. I am concerned that enough effort is not being made at European level. Yes, Ireland is making an effort, but I am disappointed that other member states of the European...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...that a genocide is being carried out. Call it what you will but 25,700 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip. We all know the power differential between the Palestinian people and the Israeli military machine, which is absolutely supported by America and which the European Union has unfortunately given a green light to in respect of all that it has done. I accept that we and...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...are we discussing the conclusions reached at an EU Council meeting that took place more than a month ago. Since that meeting in December, 7,000 more Palestinians have been killed as a result of Israel's barbaric actions, bringing the death toll to more than 25,000, including 83 journalists who were marked for assassination and almost 150 UN staff, at the last count. A further 45,000...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: ...of most Irish people and of all right-thinking people across the European Union. The ongoing carnage in Gaza is unconscionable and horrifying. It is now clear to the entire world that the Israeli Government feels it can act with complete impunity and exactly as it wishes. A country that Ireland regards as a member of the community of nations has decided that it is not bound by...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Seán Haughey: Israel's military attacks on Gaza continue unabated. It is truly shocking to see what is happening there and to witness the level of civilian casualties. Some 25,000 Palestinians have been killed to date. As we know, the European Council was unable to include a meaningful reference to this major international conflict in its final communiqué, which is very disappointing, to say the...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...the Golan Heights in order to be able to meet capacity issues within European battle groups. The same can be found in our diplomatic approach to implementing measures on ensuring a ceasefire in Gaza and elsewhere across Israel and Palestine. We want EU member states to join us in that endeavour and for us to take measures together to bring a ceasefire about, but we should not confine our...