Post-European Council Meetings: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2020-06-24
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

The decision of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party to drop the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 and leave it out of the proposed programme for Government is a disgrace, and a betrayal of the Palestinian people and of any semblance of commitment to human rights for people generally, specifically for the long-persecuted Palestinian people. Was dropping the Bill the price of getting the seat on the UN Security Council? Given the reports of lobbying by the Israeli ambassador and US congresspeople, will the Government furnish to the House and the public any and all records, memos or communication between the Government and the Israeli ambassador, or between civil servants and the Israeli ambassador, and similar communications between the Government and representatives of the US Congress? We need transparency about who lobbied the Government, what it said and what conversations led it to sacrifice the Palestinian people in this appalling way.

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Sitting date: 2020-06-24