Foreign Policy
Dail Éireann — 2025-07-10
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John Lahart (FF), Dublin South-West

What is interesting from listening to the debates here in the past week is the criticism of the Government about its stance on the Iranian regime from some of the far left voices in the House and a complete ignorance about who supplies an awful lot of these drones to Russia to continuously attack a part of Europe.
I understand the special tribunal I referred to in the question is the first international judicial body since the Second World War with jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute individuals regardless of their position suspected of committing the crime of aggression. The establishment of the tribunal marks the culmination of years of legal work by Ukraine, its partner countries, the Council of Europe and the European Union to ensure justice for the victims of Russian aggression.
Can the Minister elaborate on the European input into that and the development of that special tribunal?

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Sitting date: 2025-07-10