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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-09-19/19/
19 Sep 2019 - Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Bill 2019: Second Stage
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Debate: Select Committee On Foreign Affairs And Trade, And Defence
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_foreign_affairs_and_trade_and_defence/2019-10-03/2/
3 Oct 2019 - Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Bill 2019: Committee Stage
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-09-19/18/
19 Sep 2019 - Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Bill 2019: Order for Second Stage
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-09-19/20/
19 Sep 2019 - Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Bill 2019: Referral to Select Committee
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Debate: Select Committee On Foreign Affairs And Trade, And Defence
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_foreign_affairs_and_trade_and_defence/2019-10-03/2/
3 Oct 2019 - of Nuclear Weapons Bill 2019 creates offences in respect of these prohibitions. In addition...) The purpose of the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Bill is to enable Ireland to become a state party... to the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, TPNW. The TPNW provides for states to fulfil... their commitment to achieving a world free from nuclear weapons. The TPNW plugs a legal gap by prohibiting... a comprehensive set of prohibitions on participating in nuclear weapon activities. The Prohibition
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-09-19/19/
19 Sep 2019 - ) The Government has today introduced the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Bill 2019 to make provision... that for the first time the core objective of the prohibition of nuclear weapons will be clearly... a comprehensive set of prohibitions on nuclear weapons activities, including undertakings... of nuclear weapons, as do the provisions of the treaty prohibiting the stationing, installation... or deployment of nuclear weapons on national territory. In addition to the comprehensive prohibitions
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Debate: Select Committee On Foreign Affairs And Trade, And Defence
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_foreign_affairs_and_trade_and_defence/2019-10-03/2/
3 Oct 2019 - been convened to consider Committee Stage of the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Bill 2019. I welcome... the Minister of State, Deputy Cannon, and his officials. Would he like to make some opening remarks before we address the amendments to the Bill?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-09-19/18/
19 Sep 2019 - Bill entitled an Act to give effect to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons done at New
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-09-19/19/
19 Sep 2019 - , the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Bill 2019 is likewise modelled on similar Irish legislation...: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The purpose of the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Bill... 2019 is to enable Ireland to become a state party to the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear... ratify this historic treaty. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is the outcome of a two.... The significance of the TPNW is that the first time the core objective of the prohibition of nuclear weapons
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-09-19/19/
19 Sep 2019 - to become a state party to the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The treaty prohibits... weapons. Ireland has a long history in working towards the prohibition and elimination of nuclear... on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is the first multilateral treaty relating to nuclear disarmament... at the UN, which eventually led to the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty, which has become... to advocate for the elimination of nuclear weapons, recognising the security, humanitarian and gendered threat
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Debate: Select Committee On Foreign Affairs And Trade, And Defence
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_foreign_affairs_and_trade_and_defence/2019-10-03/2/
3 Oct 2019 - , if possible. That said, I have concerns. While we are all agreed on the prohibition of nuclear weapons... to agree on the prohibition of nuclear weapons, but the bigger picture must be addressed..., it will take another $1 trillion to modernise the nuclear weapons capacity of the nine countries... that have nuclear weapons. While we are passing this legislation, supporting its provisions... in that happening. Of course, the countries that hold nuclear weapons will not agree with the treaty because
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-09-19/19/
19 Sep 2019 - the decline in the production and stockpiling of these weapons. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear... comprehensively to prohibit nuclear weapons, with the goal of leading towards their total elimination... continued leadership in the prohibition of nuclear weapons is necessary and welcomed by the Labour... of Nuclear Weapons, just as we have supported previous international treaties and efforts to promote... Weapons, or the nuclear weapon ban treaty, is the first legally binding international agreement
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-09-19/19/
19 Sep 2019 - on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons but expressed concern about the deteriorating security environment... States was thinking of invading Venezuela some time ago. The goal of nuclear weapons prohibition... there is the danger of certain countries having nuclear weapons. I acknowledge that it is a cliché but it seems.... Nevertheless, the majority of us seem to agree on the need for a world free from nuclear weapons. In January... of nuclear weapons, and what the letter's authors called provocative war games and nuclear threat
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Debate: Select Committee On Foreign Affairs And Trade, And Defence
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_foreign_affairs_and_trade_and_defence/2019-10-03/2/
3 Oct 2019 - the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Bill. As the Minister of State said, it received unanimous support.... The Bill will enable Ireland to become a state party to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear... Weapons and give effect to its provisions in Irish law. The treaty prohibits participation... in a range of activities related to the transfer, development and use of nuclear weapons. This is both very... welcome and something to which every country should agree. Nuclear weapons threaten the very
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-09-20/4/
20 Sep 2012 - Nuclear Weapons (Prohibition of Investments) Bill 2012: First Stage
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Debate: Select Committee On Foreign Affairs And Trade, And Defence
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_foreign_affairs_and_trade_and_defence/2019-10-03/2/
3 Oct 2019 - in working towards the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons. Going back to 1958, led... Weapons which has become the cornerstone of nuclear disarmament. The treaty is the most widely... resolutions at the United Nations which eventually led to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear... recognised agreement on nuclear disarmament. As has been said, with so much uncertainty throughout the world..., this is an issue that must continually be addressed by the international community. The Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-09-19/19/
19 Sep 2019 - . Sinn Féin supports and welcomes the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Bill. I imagine... a state party to the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and will give effect.... To date 70 countries have signed the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and 26 states... of prohibited activities in respect of nuclear weapons. This includes prohibitions on activities... of activities relating to the transfer, development and use of nuclear weapons. As I said as Gaeilge
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1983-01-27/29/
27 Jan 1983 - of 1959 which prohibits measures of a military nature in the Antarctic, the only nuclear weapon-free zone... Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America. ... Mr. P. Barry This country is bound by the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons... not to manufacture or acquire nuclear weapons, and there is of course no question of allowing other... States to place their nuclear weapons here. The main characteristics of a nuclear weapon-free zone
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1982-11-02/19/
2 Nov 1982 - which prohibits measures of a military nature in the Antarctic, the only nuclear weapon-free zone... to be created by an international agreement is that established for Latin America by the 1967 Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America. ... Mr. G. Collins Ireland is bound by the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons... not to manufacture or acquire nuclear weapons and there is, of course, no question of allowing other... States to place their nuclear weapons here. The main characteristics of a nuclear weapon-free zone
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1984-05-09/14/
9 May 1984 - was established in 1967 under the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America. To date... Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr. P. Barry) The concept of a Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone... is understood internationally to mean arrangements to be free of nuclear weapons entered into by a group... of states in a region. The only Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone created by international agreement..., no state has individually declared itself a Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone. Ireland is a state party
