Seanad debates

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

3:00 pm

Photo of Mark DalyMark Daly (Fianna Fail)

I ask the Leader to bring the Minister for Foreign Affairs to the House to speak about the ongoing saga of the use of Irish passports by Mossad, or by those who perpetrated the murder in Dubai. Today, we learned that the address given on the hotel bill was that of a former Taoiseach's brother. Of course, that information was released with a purpose. They want us to know how good they are. The information had to be supplied from Ireland and considerable research was required to get the address. Someone in Ireland must be complicit in passing on that information. I ask the Leader to ask the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Justice, Equality and Law Reform to begin a Garda investigation into how the address of the brother of a former Taoiseach came into the hands of those who perpetrated a murder in Dubai. The message they are sending us is that they can kill anyone wherever, whenever and however they want.

While Ireland has not been silent on issues relating to Gaza and the West Bank, Europe has. It has been silent on the invasion of Gaza and on the failure to enforce the human rights element of the Euro-Med agreement. Israel is allowed to do whatever it wants with regard to human rights in Israel and Gaza. I ask the Leader that the Ministers for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and Foreign Affairs be brought to the House to debate the most serious issue of the use of the address of a brother of a former Taoiseach. An embassy in Ireland must have supplied that information. This is a most serious issue.

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