Export Controls
Dail Éireann — 2026-06-16
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Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (SF), Cork South-Central

There may have been other questions earlier on this topic. I am looking forward to hearing the Minister's answer. It is difficult to comprehend how during a genocide, licences were approved, in particular for 2024, for dual-use goods for which the end user was the IDF and the department of defence in Israel. The value was €20 million. It is quite extraordinary. It is difficult to understand how such applications could have been approved in the context of such appalling crimes against humanity.
They should not have been approved. I welcome that has now stopped, but we need answers about why they were approved.

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