Export Controls
Dail Éireann — 2024-10-10
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

I am not so clear the Deputy is correct. He needs to drill down and engage with the Department of enterprise on that question. Concerning dual use in the modern era, with the advance of technology people can assert a dual use for almost anything today, sometimes for negative reasons. I was at the Rafah crossing some months ago and saw built up in every warehouse a range of goods for humanitarian purposes which the Israeli Government and IDF labelled as dual use. One can see how dual use frameworks and regulations can be abused to suit one's own agenda. In this case, education packs, medical facilities and generators were not allowed into Gaza in a shocking manner. It was appalling to see such abuse of dual use regulations by the Israeli Government.

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Sitting date: 2024-10-10