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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (10 Oct 2024)
Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am asking this question on behalf of Deputy Devlin. It is about Ireland's contribution to the World Bank IDA crisis facility special programme for Ukraine and Moldova.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (10 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: Two and a half years on from Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine continues to face immense challenges. With the Taoiseach, I recently announced a €36 million package of support for Ukraine and its immediate neighbours, which builds on the extensive political, humanitarian, military and economic support provided since February 2022. It will provide much-needed humanitarian...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (10 Oct 2024)
Pádraig O'Sullivan: The figure I had was $411 billion. The fact the Tánaiste said $486 billion suggests that things are going in the wrong direction as regards Ukraine's ability to finance its recovery. The gap for borrowing will be something that we will all have to deal with globally and internationally over the coming decade, as the Tánaiste said. SPUR is a crisis facility, which will focus on...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (10 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for what he said. The figure we have is $486 billion over the next decade. That figure rises every day. I mentioned the nature of modern warfare. It is entirely destructive. Rulers are now targeting civilian and energy infrastructure, houses, schools, hospitals and so forth. Ireland has engaged in discussions on short-term recovery efforts in preparation for a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (10 Oct 2024)
Pádraig O'Sullivan: I will follow up with two quick supplementaries on the area of gender-based violence and the supports that will be given to victims of rape and sexual abuse during the conflict. Will the Tánaiste comment on that? As I mentioned to the Minister of State, Deputy Fleming, what has been done in the conflict is particularly heinous in respect of children. I did not realise it was to the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (10 Oct 2024)
Brendan Howlin: I have a brief supplementary. I thank the Tánaiste for his responses. Many of us have a concern, before we even start reconstructing Ukraine and Moldova, regarding the survival of the democratic structures of Moldova, which is currently being undermined by Russia. I would be interested to hear the Tánaiste's view on what we are doing to support democratic structures in Moldova...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: The European Union is not sending weapons.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Thomas Gould: France is, Germany is and Italy is. They all are.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: The European Union as an entity.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Brendan Howlin: They are sovereign countries.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: They are sovereign, independent countries. The European Union is not sending weapons to Israel. For the sake of the public, we need clarity in the debate. The Middle East is complex enough. I think everyone in this House is consistent and unified in wanting this war to end.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Thomas Gould: Yes.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: France, for example, will have strong interests in trying to protect Lebanon. It does not support the bombardment and has been trying, with the US, to get an agreement between Hezbollah, the Israeli military and the Israeli Government, to no avail, over the last 12 months. When the Hamas attack on Gaza happened, Hezbollah, in solidarity with Hamas, started firing rockets into Israel. A...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: 11. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps Ireland has taken to comply with the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on 19 July 2024 on Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, which states that member states are under a positive obligation “to abstain from entering into treaty relations with Israel in all cases in which it...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: My question specifically relates to Israel's presence in settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank. I am asking what the Tánaiste is going to do about the advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice which states that member states, including Ireland, are under a positive obligation "to abstain from treaty relations with Israel in all cases in which...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: On 19 July 2024, the International Court of Justice delivered an advisory opinion on the legal consequences arising from the policies and practices of Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem. The Deputy will recall that the Attorney General, on behalf of the Government, made a submission to the court in respect of this. In its advisory opinion, the court...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome that the Tánaiste is saying it has changed the situation. I would like him to outline how that has changed for Ireland and what, concretely, that means. A total of 500 people have lost their lives in less than a year in the West Bank, a war that continues without any recognition. Now we have this advisory opinion telling us we are all under an obligation. I repeat that I am...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: Bill or no Bill, that would unfortunately not stop Israel from what it is doing. What it is doing in the West Bank is reprehensible. I take issue with this latest sort of propaganda that it is just words and not action. I do not accept that and will not accept it. I will consistently rebut that argument because Ireland has taken action and will continue to take action on all levels. The...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome that. However, we were always under an obligation under the Genocide Convention relating to the trade with Israel, with regard to human rights. We could have taken action and we can take action. On the occupied territories Bill, we have experts in law, including two of the world's leading experts, stating that we are fully entitled to pass the occupied territories Bill. The...