Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
Dail Éireann — 2025-07-15
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Ruth Coppinger (PBP), Dublin West

Has the Taoiseach raised with the Canadian Prime Minister the ongoing support of Canada for Israel, which is very unfortunate, and Canada's commitment to spend 5% of GDP on arms and to participate in ReArm Europe?
Points have been made by a previous TD about democratic values that we share. TDs who went and dined with the US ambassador while it is funding a genocide are lecturing the rest of us about democratic values but I have been on more marches for Woman, Life, Freedom in Iran, something that that Deputy could never go on because he struck a woman once and paid no price, so I would stay very quiet. I have also been on protests outside the embassy of the USSR, which is something that Deputy has never done. We hear a lot of lectures from people about democratic values. They never raise the values of the US, Canada and other nations.

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Sitting date: 2025-07-15