Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-11
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

It seems that when Donald Trump and the big military powers in NATO tell this Government to jump, it says “How high?” We have had a chorus of voices saying we will spend more on weapons. Simultaneously, we are going to get rid of the triple lock and undermine our neutrality. When it comes, however, to the promise the Government made on the occupied territories Bill to impose sanctions on the state committing genocide, which is armed by Donald Trump and the big powers in NATO, it seems now it is not happening. A motion was passed in this Dáil - the Government let it go through, which means the Dáil asked for it - that there would be action on the occupied territories Bill before Christmas. Is the Government not doing it because Donald Trump and the powers in NATO have told it they do not want Israel sanctioned for its crimes against the Palestinian people?

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Sitting date: 2025-12-11