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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: I do not mind the Minister playing politics but on this issue, he should not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: The same applies to Europe. Sinn Féin spokespeople will sidle off to Europe and have their meetings with the Commission, have their meetings with civil servants and tell them all they have a different view from the one they articulate publicly in the House.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Tá an t-am caite.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: That is what happens with Sinn Féin at the moment. They are talking to different people all of the time with different policies and different perspectives.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Middle East

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on his most recent communications with his European counterparts in relation to imposing sanctions on Israel in light of the International Court of Justice’s recent ruling that there is a plausible case that Israel may be committing genocide in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20911/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope it is clear at this stage that there is no level of atrocity that Israel is not willing to commit against the Palestinian people. It should have been clear long before now for a state that was built on ethnic cleansing on an ongoing basis, on apartheid and on a 17-year-long siege of Gaza, but now, when we look at the massacre in Gaza, it should be clear. Under the genocide...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I will answer the question the Deputy has tabled and I will then deal with the specifics of his further questions. Sanctions are a tool of the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy and part of a comprehensive approach to the pursuit of EU foreign policy objectives, along with political dialogue and other complementary efforts and instruments. Ireland actively pushed for agreement at EU...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit put a motion to the Dáil in November of last year asking the Government to take a case against Israel for genocide under the ICJ and it voted against it. Now, belatedly, because South Africa did what Ireland should have done, the Government is saying there will be some class of intervention. I suppose later is better than not at all, but when we consider the horror...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: When the Deputy spoke earlier about the International Court of Justice, I do not think he was upfront with the Irish people in terms of how it works, and he was deliberately populist and polemic about it. That has been the case on many issues around this question. Ireland wants to be credible in terms of how it legally intervenes in international courts so that when we do it, we do it with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been campaigning for Palestinian rights since I was there in 1987 - I lived there - and my position has been very consistent over a very long time, as has been the movement in this country of solidarity with Palestine. My position is that, in relation to the apartheid state of Israel, we need to do what was done to the apartheid state of South Africa. A state based on apartheid and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: Come on. Is the Deputy seriously suggesting we can effectively dismantle the Israeli state?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Dunnes Stores workers played a big role.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: Come on. The Deputy's solution fails in any shape or form to deal with the complexity of the situation. It is not as simple as he has put forward at all. It is a long history, as the Deputy correctly pointed out. It is not as simple as recognising one state and de-recognising another and attempting to dismantle it. That would cause untold further violence and upheaval. In our view,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: There are clear rules and procedures governing how a President of the Commission is elected or appointed. They are tied up with the elections and there is a two-stage procedure. First, there is the appointment of the Commission by a qualified majority. The European Council will propose a candidate for President of the Commission but then that candidate has to be elected by a majority vote...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: If it will provide any consolation to the Tánaiste, I will of course acknowledge that Europe has huge expenditure of humanitarian aid. Some states within the EU are much better than others and there is not a universal approach but I also acknowledge that the EU has funded very important projects in Palestine. It has funded schools, hospitals, healthcare centres, youth clubs and women's...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: Regarding the Tánaiste's response, it is deflection to say let us look at this thing in the round and that we are not being fair and are not looking at the humanitarian contribution of the European Union. Ursula von der Leyen is not entirely responsible for the humanitarian contribution of the European Union. What she is responsible for is her own public utterances, which demonstrate...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ursula von der Leyen is directly complicit with the genocidal massacre that Israel has committed in Gaza over the past seven months. She greenlit the massacre and she should be unceremoniously sacked. People should state publicly that she should not remain as the President of the EU Commission. They should say publicly, "Ursula von der Leyen; sack her." Say publicly she should be sacked...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is correct in that the Ceann Comhairle, on behalf of this Parliament, invited President von der Leyen at the time, in acknowledgement of the role of the President of the Commission in respect of Brexit and of resolutely defending Ireland's situation vis-à-vis the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union. Yes, many parties gave a very warm response, including...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: The Government cannot delay it either.