Cabinet Committees
Dail Éireann — 2023-11-21
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

The Deputy mentioned the Holocaust, or Shoah, being a genocide. A total of 6 million people were killed by the Nazis, and they would have killed another 6 million people if they could. I know that there are active debates around the Famine and the treatment of indigenous populations in America and Australia. If people want to use words like "genocide" and "apartheid", I am not going to dispute that, but that does not bring us anywhere or achieve anything. What this is about is making sure that-----

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Sitting date: 2023-11-21