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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Aircraft (10 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt you, Deputy - through the Chair, if I may.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Aircraft (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I apologise.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Aircraft (10 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: Let us be very clear: everyone in this House, regardless of their political leanings, has called for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the war in Gaza. We have condemned the bombardment and the collective punishment of the people in Gaza. I also condemn what is happening in Lebanon, where one million people have been displaced. I condemn what is happening in the West Bank, where the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Aircraft (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: You cannot find out if you do not look or inspect or you rely on reassurances from an American state that is backing Israel to the core. The last figure I have is that the US has spent €17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since last October. This figure is from the Costs of War project by the Watson Institute at Brown University, released last Monday. The Tánaiste is telling...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Aircraft (10 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: I do not agree with that. It is a fundamental distortion to suggest we are complicit in genocide and an outrageous assertion. It is also a bit propagandistic. I knocked on a door recently and the person who answered said to me that all the weapons are being supplied from Shannon. They had no evidence for this statement but this is what is being told. That misinformation is being created...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (10 Oct 2024)

Seán Fleming: I will give some further information on the breakdown of the fund I recently referred to, but now I will address the issue specifically mentioned by the Deputy. We believe that up to 20,000 Ukrainian children have been forcibly removed to Russian detention camps or into forced adoptions in Russia. I am particularly interested in this area because on the second anniversary of the illegal...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (10 Oct 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I commend the Minister of State. It is one of the sadder and more tragic aspects of the conflict. It is important to highlight it. I will ask two supplementary questions if I may, one of which relates to the core homes project, through which a number of prefabricated or modular homes are being sponsored, built or constructed. Does the Minister of State have an estimate on the number we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (10 Oct 2024)

Seán Fleming: I can indeed. Some funding has been provided to Moldova. I may not have the exact figure here but I can confirm to the Deputy that funding has been provided in respect of Moldova and some areas very close to the Ukraine situation. A lot of the funding we are providing will go into reconstruction and building modular homes, as the Deputy mentioned. The figures I mentioned earlier are the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Visits (10 Oct 2024)

State Visits

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Visits (10 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 6. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to the new French Prime Minister, Michel Barnier; if it is his intention to invite the new Prime Minister to visit Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36393/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Visits (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Recently, the French President nominated Michel Barnier and the Assemblée nationale has confirmed him as the new Prime Minister of France. Michel Barnier is very well briefed with affairs in Ireland and is a good friend of Ireland. Has the Tánaiste reached out to him since his appointment to deepen direct contacts between France and Ireland?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Visits (10 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the question. I understand the Taoiseach has spoken to Prime Minister Barnier to congratulate him on his appointment. I know Prime Minister Barnier well from his time as the EU’s chief negotiator on Brexit. He is a good friend of Ireland and I wish him every success in his new and challenging role. Prime Minister Barnier knows Ireland well and would,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Visits (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply. Although there are very good links between Ireland and France, there is capacity for even greater links in a post-Brexit environment. One of the perverse positive outcomes of Brexit was the growth in direct connectivity between Ireland and France, with direct sailings from Rosslare to France, and indeed to Belgium, rising from six per week to 46 per...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Visits (10 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: I agree wholeheartedly with the Deputy. One of the few silver linings in the dark cloud of Brexit was Rosslare. There is no question that the Franco-Irish relationship has gained a fresh momentum as a consequence of Brexit in terms of the connections but also culturally, educationally and economically. I was in Paris in August. I was launching a Gaelic games activity in the context of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Visits (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: In recent times France has appointed a number of honorary consuls across the regions of Ireland, including one in Wexford. Does the Tánaiste have any plans to appoint honorary French consuls to represent Ireland in the regions of France to deepen that new connectivity? Nick Thomas-Symonds is the British Cabinet Office minister who last week briefed the Oireachtas Joint Committee on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy knows we are preparing a legal opinion to join the South African case at the International Court of Justice. He knows that, we have said that and we have done much work on that. We were proactive in terms of the ICJ case leading to the advisory opinion, at the UN General Assembly in the first instance; at the court itself, where the AG made a submission; and in asking for the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why did Simon Harris not say yesterday to the United States, "Stop arming a genocide. Stop giving weapons to people to commit genocide." Even now, the Tánaiste will not use the word "genocide". He will not say "They're committing genocide", even though the world is saying it and it is obvious they are committing it. The Tánaiste is still failing to distinguish between the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: The Israeli war against the Palestinian people is nothing other than genocide. We need to support the South African case. We need that to happen as quickly as possible. Of course we want a ceasefire. How could we not when we have seen at least 42,000 Palestinians slaughtered? We welcome the moves to recognise the Palestinian state by Ireland, Spain and Norway. We need to see movement on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: I am disturbed by Deputy Boyd Barrett's assertions when he refers to a few "nasty things". Murdering and slaughtering 1,200 people, some at a music concert, is not a little nasty thing. It is an outrage and should be condemned as morally reprehensible. I find it extraordinary what the Deputy has just said in this House. He has essentially said that is just a few nasty things that are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what I said.