Departmental Contracts
Dail Éireann — 2023-11-21
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Gino Kenny (PBP), Dublin Mid-West

Ireland needs to take a moral and principled stand against the State of Israel. In the past five years Ireland has spent €6 million procuring Israeli goods and services. Surely the Tánaiste is not saying that given what Israel has done in the past in the last six weeks - and continues to do - that somehow this is business as usual. Surely the Tánaiste does not believe that. Israel is not a normal state. The Tánaiste knows that. We cannot have any sort of trade agreement with a state that continuously oppresses a people and has an almost genocidal policy against the people of Palestine. This is not a normal country and surely in these circumstances we cannot trade with the State of Israel.

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Sitting date: 2023-11-21