The are real fears about the danger facing Irish troops from Israeli forces. We still have flights carrying munitions through Irish airspace to arm a country that is pointing tanks at our troops and firing on UN positions. We recognised the State of Palestine and that was an important act of solidarity. The next step is to immediately pass the occupied territories Bill and ban all trade with illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine. To trade with such a brutal system engaged in such blatant brutality makes us complicit in the murder of every child, woman and man in occupied Palestine. The Government has guillotined the planning Bill and is rushing through the Social Welfare Bill and the Finance Bill. Why can Government policy be rushed through but such haste is lacking when it comes to sanctioning illegal settlements by a state that is threatening our troops while targeting civilians in Lebanon and committing genocide in Gaza? Senator Frances Black has pointed out that the occupied territories Bill has been passed by the Seanad. Will the Government now allow a vote on the Bill in the Dáil and deal with it at the Business Committee tomorrow?

Let me emphasise again that any targeting or threatening of troops, particularly Irish troops who are fulfilling their UNIFIL duties, is to be condemned and should cease.

Regarding the issue the Deputy raised about the status of the occupied territories Bill, the Tánaiste, Taoiseach and Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, received a briefing on this matter at the start of this week from the Attorney General. My understanding is that the Cabinet will be briefed on this issue as soon as next week. We will receive an update on it. I am sure after that, the Tánaiste, as Minister for Foreign Affairs, will be able to outline if a further course of action is needed. At the moment, the Taoiseach is attending the European Council in Brussels where he will again make clear the views of the Government, Dáil and people of Ireland regarding the violence that is now engulfing the Middle East.

We will wait until next week and then see what the report is.