Middle East Peace Process
Dail Éireann — 2020-07-28
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Simon Coveney (FG), Cork South-Central

I will be quick. Deputy Costello is in a Government that cares about this issue, that has spent an extraordinary amount of time ensuring that Ireland has some influence over key decision-makers in respect of the Middle East peace process and that will continue to prioritise this issue, as we have done in the programme for Government. That is clear.
Deputy Boyd Barrett, as usual, is calling for things that are more about protest than real change. I am not in the business of making decisions as a Government Minister that are directly contrary to the legal advice the Government has, and the Deputy knows very well that is the position regarding the Control of Economic Activities (Occupied Territories) Bill.

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Sitting date: 2020-07-28