Last week, the Tánaiste said that he believes "and will be calling for sanctions to be applied to extreme terrorist settlers on the West Bank." He went further still and said that Ireland must appear to act unilaterally and introduce our own travel bans if the EU cannot agree to these types of sanctions against those settlers. I will ask the Tánaiste a very direct question and I would appreciate a direct answer. Would those sanctions, which I very much welcome, be applied to extreme settlers in the Israeli Government who have also expressed the most horrific viewpoints over the last while? I refer, for example, to Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.

Will they come under these sanctions?

It will deal with settlers in the West Bank and not the ministers initially-----

They live there.

They are settlers.

I am answering the question. Last week I saw Deputy Gannon's tweet saying I was in the Chamber for only five minutes giving a speech. I was actually here for an hour and I made a submission.

Answer the question.

It is a bit unfair of Deputy Gannon. It will apply to the settlers and particular settlers have already been identified at European Union level. If it does not happen at European Union level we will then consider doing it ourselves.

Can the Government do it?