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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

John Brady: ...on the annexation motion, which was historic in its own right when it was passed overwhelmingly by the Dáil in 2020. It stated quite clearly that what Israel is doing by grabbing Palestinian land is absolutely illegal. There have to be repercussions from such a designation, whereby ours was the first European country to unilaterally state that Israel is breaching international law....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

John Brady: ...it exposes the double standards there. Providing assistance to the settlements and their viability is contrary to international law. Let us consider the portfolio of investments, in which the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund has invested taxpayers' money, for example the four banks. Banks are a critical piece of the puzzle, not just in financing the expansion of the settlements but in...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

John Brady: ...this date. We know that at this point, there are approximately 103,000 Ukrainians within the State. However, we believe it is incumbent on the Government to signal now to those Ukrainians in Ireland and to the EU that when the temporary protection directive expires in March of next year at the latest, Ukrainians will be subject to the State's immigration laws. Ukrainians who wish to...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

John Brady: ...welcome the witnesses. This is an important meeting, with another to follow tomorrow at the Committee of Public Accounts, so I thank them all for coming here. A lot of the responsibility does not land on their shoulders and one of the key people who should be here, unfortunately is not, but I hope she will take the earliest opportunity to come before this committee and the Committee of...

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

John Brady: ...debating the shareholdings. Government has made us shareholders or stakeholders in international crimes by having investments in these companies operating unlawfully in occupied Palestinian lands. There is no due diligence on human rights being carried out, as far as I can see, by ISIF. When I hear the arguments against the UN Human Rights Council and the database on which this Bill...

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: First Stage (28 Mar 2023)

John Brady: ...be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to impose certain prohibitions and restrictions with respect to the investment by the National Treasury Management Agency of the assets of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund in undertakings which appear on the UN Database of companies operating in illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land; to require the Agency to ensure that such...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (21 Mar 2023)

John Brady: ...Israeli settlers. Only today, the Israeli Government repealed a 2005 law that ordered the dismantling of four illegal settlements in the northern West Bank that were built on private Palestinian land. Therefore, it is quite clear that there is no intent by Israel, as an occupying force, to de-escalate. Indeed, it is standing and aiding and abetting the escalating settler violence. Now...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (21 Mar 2023)

John Brady: ..., the attacks on Palestinians have escalated, as the Tánaiste will agree. Attacks on Palestinian homes, cars and livestock, along with shootings and knife attacks, the theft of livestock and land and the burning of crops are ongoing daily. Much of this is happening under the guidance of the occupying Israeli army. The attack on Huwara was described as the worst attack by settlers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ukraine War: Ambassadors of Ukraine and Moldova (21 Feb 2023)

John Brady: ...into Moldova. They were so grateful that Moldova opened its borders and allowed so many people in. There are still 85,000 Ukrainians in Moldova, a country with very little. Compare this to Ireland, one of the richest countries in Europe, that has in taken in 75,000 Ukrainians. This puts the challenges the invasion has put on other countries into perspective. I listened to Vladimir...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

John Brady: ...also want to address an issue that I brought up with the Tánaiste on the floor of the Chamber last week, which is the destruction of aid that has gone to Palestine and the West Bank. We are aware that Ireland is part of the West Bank Protection Consortium where we have lodged a claim for the destruction of a fairly substantial amount of aid that was given to the Palestinian people...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Feb 2023)

John Brady: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building for a school (details supplied); the current status regarding land acquisition for the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5629/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (31 Jan 2023)

John Brady: ...Yatta school in south Hebron. That was one of more than 9,257 Palestinian structures that have been demolished illegally by Israel since 2009, displacing more than 13,345 Palestinians from their lands. This is a policy of destruction, demolition, displacement and dispersal of Palestinians to the smallest parcels of land, similar to the Bantustans in apartheid South Africa. The Minister...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Middle East (31 Jan 2023)

John Brady: ...actions of the new Israeli Government. These actions should not be a surprise. In May 2021, the House adopted a resolution stating that Israel had breached international law by annexing Palestinian land, and it continues to do so. The Israeli Government has said it will go further in annexing more Palestinian land, including parts of East Jerusalem. The time for rhetoric has passed....

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Middle East (31 Jan 2023)

John Brady: ...is happening on the ground, but this has not just come about since the start of the year. It has been a systematic approach by successive Israeli Governments to displace Palestinians from their land, demolish and destroy their homes and disperse them into fragments of their land. We need to beyond the rhetoric of concern. We need definitive action from the international community, the...

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

John Brady: ...8 million, at this point, have fled the country in search of safety across Europe. When the war broke out, in February last year, the Government said that we could expect up to 200,000 refugees to land in Ireland. There is still no plan to house the 70,000 plus who have arrived here to date. We are expecting another new Russian onslaught once spring arrives. What analysis has been...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (13 Dec 2022)

John Brady: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide clarification on the length of the tenancy for a cost-rental scheme (details supplied) under the Land Development Agency, LDA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62212/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ukraine War (6 Oct 2022)

John Brady: ...and is coupled with the unbelievable threat that nuclear force may be used. Does the Minister see the recent military success on the ground, in which Ukraine has taken back large swathes of land previously occupied by Russia, as an opportunity to push for peaceful discussions to bring the horrific and illegal conflict in Ukraine to an end?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)

John Brady: ...to be taken in by this State, and we have had this conversation here several times, the most recent information I got via a parliamentary question was that only 19 of those vulnerable refugees have landed in Ireland. This announcement was made way back in March or April 2022, so it is concerning in the context of the pressures impacting Moldova that only 19 of these 500 refugees have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (23 Jun 2022)

John Brady: ...that Ireland supports this agreement flies in the face of the stance that this Chamber has taken last year, when we acknowledged that Israel has breached international law by annexing Palestinian lands. I seek the Minister's response on this issue.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (23 Jun 2022)

John Brady: The Minister said recently that one of the greatest injustices in the world today is the occupation of Palestinian lands and the continued expansion of settlements. I completely agree with the Minister. Unfortunately, those words mean nothing when we are prepared to support an agreement such as this. We are rewarding the brutal oppressor of Palestinian people, the continued illegal...