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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Gino Kenny: I was there.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Micheál Martin: I ask the Deputy to hear me out for a second. I had not finished the sentence. I invite him to go to Israel, meet with the Israeli Government and find out first-hand what it thinks of the Irish Government's position or the Irish people's position. The Israeli Government does not think we have done nothing. I will leave it at that. We have shown leadership on all the concrete issues that...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Gino Kenny: I acknowledge what the Tánaiste says. I acknowledge that Ireland has done more than the rest of the European Union in calling out what Israel has been doing, and not only in the past six months. If you go to the Middle East, you will find that people from Palestine are very generous in their comments on what the Irish people have done and the empathy we have shown, but we have not done...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy knows the answer to his question about the occupied territories Bill. The European Union has a legal competence when it comes to trade. I do not agree with the Deputy that it would have the impact he says it would.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Gino Kenny: Try it out.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Micheál Martin: Europe has been proactive in certain respects in-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Gino Kenny: People said that of South Africa in the 1980s.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt the Deputy. He has asked questions.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Gino Kenny: The same-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy, let the Tánaiste answer.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy does not allow me to answer the question he has put. I do not interrupt him. Europe has taken steps in respect of trying to identify goods that come from the settlements and the possibility that we would be in a position to boycott them. The most effective decision we have taken as a country within the European Union - it will be difficult, by the way, to get unanimity on this -...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Gino Kenny: 9. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to his European counterparts about placing sanctions on Israel for its bombardment of Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10255/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Gino Kenny: Given the cataclysmic circumstances in Gaza at the moment, has the Tánaiste spoken to his European counterparts with regard to sanctions on Israel and what will the European Union and this country do about the terrible events that are going on in Gaza at the moment?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the question. Ireland has in recent weeks engaged in several concrete initiatives regarding the conflict, all of which have been underpinned by our clear and principled position. In view of the unacceptable levels of violence being perpetrated by certain Israeli settlers against Palestinian communities in the West Bank, in particular since 7 October 2023, I...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Gino Kenny: What we are witnessing at the moment and have witnessed in the past six months in Gaza is and has been almost unbearable to look at. I do not know if the Tánaiste saw the report on the BBC the other day where 15 children died basically of malnutrition. It was unbelievable just to see that. Imagine being there and being the mother or father of that child. This is being done in real...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Deputy will have a chance to come back in again.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Micheál Martin: I do follow the BBC reports and I pay tribute to the BBC because I believe it has brought some sharp insights and has revealed and exposed a great deal, notwithstanding the limits and constraints on how it can operate within Gaza. The situation is shocking and we and I have condemned it. I disagree with Deputy Kenny's characterisation of Irish foreign policy. I invite Deputy Kenny to go...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Gino Kenny: I have been, Tánaiste.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (7 Mar 2024)
Micheál Martin: Hear me out.