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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)
Peter Burke: ...and is the number one issue facing the European Council, given the horrific context that we can see on our screens every week, the atrocities carried out in Gaza and the reprehensible response by Israel against very vulnerable people. It is also in the context of the destruction of critical infrastructure that underwrites that population, such as schools, hospitals and so many items of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...words. Yesterday, the total number of dead was 27,585, of whom 12,000 were children and 8,190 were women. I do not think anybody in this entire building could stand over those ratios as to what Israel is doing or what it may claim to be doing. We all hope we have seen what may be the possibility of a ceasefire that involves the Egyptians, the Qataris and the Americans. I would like to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)
Seán Haughey: ...summit meeting, namely the recognition of the state of Palestine. I assume the Tánaiste is raising that issue in the US as we speak. The Taoiseach also spoke about the need to continue funding UNRWA and to review the EU-Israel trade agreement. I support him on all of that. The Minister of State has answered those questions. He mentioned that there are a lot of legal issues with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)
Peter Burke: .... I wish him well, although I hope there is a long time to go yet in this current Dáil and look forward to working with him into the future. On the Deputy's second last question, which was about Israel, we spoke about that issue and I share his views on the importance of the Tánaiste being in the US at the moment pushing this issue, getting our voice heard at the highest...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)
Peter Burke: ...services. They provide so much of a contribution. We need to act fairly and humanely and to work through these problems. We need to work as a society. As I mentioned about Palestine and Israel, let us not make it a wedge issue. Let us make it an issue to which we want to respond compassionately as a society and in a way that protects our own interests, protects the EU and ensures that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)
Brendan Howlin: ...the formal setting with colleagues to see if the momentum developed by Ireland, Spain, Belgium and others s growing and if there are other moves in terms of strengthening our pressure points on Israel to bring about a ceasefire. Similarly, on Ukraine, obviously we welcome the decision of the European Council to make the allocation to Ukraine to sustain it over the next four years. It is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: On the EU-Israel Association Agreement, is there any movement on-----