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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know where to start on this. I have been raising this issue for a long time in this Chamber. There is no ethical component to the purchasing of weapons from Israel or any other country that is at war. Given the slaughter that is happening in Gaza and the history of Israeli actions in respect of Palestine, there should never have been any purchasing of any equipment for the Defence...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Matt Carthy: Further to that, a related matter is the services provided by Ireland to the Israel Defense Forces. Since 2018, six members of the IDF have trained at the United Nations Training School Ireland or under NATO's Partnership for Peace. It is abhorrent that Ireland has facilitated the training of members of the IDF over the past 13 years, throughout which Palestinians were subjected to brutal...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...it if there are votes and so on. To respond to Deputy Ó Snodaigh, again, the trade law is there with respect to public procurement and tendering. I certainly have reservations in respect of Israel generally in terms of the arms industry and procurement but there is the broader context of the UN, the OSCE and the European Union, and it is European Union law that we be fully merit...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is good that the Tánaiste has reservations, but reservations do not lead to the suspension of all trade with Israel and, in particular, any trade from Ireland to Israel in the form of dual-use goods. In the case of this question, it is to do with trade between us and Israeli companies where defence companies, such as Aeronautics Defense Systems, the company we bought from which the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...not acceptable that we would hide behind either EU or UN rules and say that because these are the rules, we are just going to allow ourselves to become complicit in what is an elaborate and extensive Israeli war machine. It is imperative the Tánaiste give a commitment that he is doing everything he can to disentangle Ireland from any association with the IDF or Israel-based arms...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...are not in a position to do that, although we have written to the EU with Spain. Ours are the two countries in the EU that have written to the EU in respect of the trade association agreement with Israel, and Ireland has said we want a review and examination of that in the context of our view on Israel's non-compliance with the human rights clauses within that trade association agreement....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 and 9 together. I am advised that my Department has had no engagement with the Israel Defence Forces or other Israeli state bodies since January 2023. Similarly, the Defence Forces have had no engagements during this timeframe, save any arising as part of an overall deployment of the 12 Defence Forces officers serving with the United Nations Truce...