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motion and on the communications around it, the many civil society groups that have been tirelessly working on this campaign to stop the game, including the Stop the Game group and Irish Sport for Palestine, and many other volunteers who are working hard to really express a growing … pushing back against UEFA on its failure to exclude Israel from the Nations League competition. Primarily, it can support the FAI in stopping the game and not playing. It can inoculate the FAI from any potential sanctions that may come its way. It can support the association

sets out very clearly the mechanisms available to the Government to assist the FAI in making the right decision and, basically, to stop the game. That is what it does. It gives the Government the clear tools that we know will work should it choose … State to hear the cacophony of support and the growing momentum that I told him two weeks ago would happen for the Stop the Game campaign. It must be deafening for him and his colleagues who have decided, instead of showing leadership, to say, "We will

Heimir Hallgrímsson's fault. It will be the fans' fault. It will be everybody's fault but the Minister's. Just stop the game. Of course, sport is political. Open any history book and you will find swathes of examples of the relationship between sport and politics … making a decision. These elite athletes who so desperately require elite political representation instead get left with political amateurism, inaction and cowardice. Stop the game because what a sad day it is if it is left up to these players or staff to boycott. That is a position

stand up for international law. It is time for the Government to finally show some leadership and get behind this campaign to Stop the Game on legal and moral grounds. Stand with the people of Ireland who do not want this game to go ahead. Stand with … support of the Government, the FAI should be empowered to take a moral stance here. The Government should use its conscience and stop this game. The occupied territories Bill will be debated today. The decision to strip that Bill of services is a cynical act by the Government

ahead anywhere. We have been hearing from people who have contacted us in their droves with one message, that they want to stop the game in October. They want the Taoiseach and his Government to take a stand against the normalisation of genocide through sport. They want … take a stand against Israel's war crimes in Gaza, the West Bank and south Lebanon. They want to stop the game from going ahead anywhere in the world. This is about more than just one football match. Taking on Israel neither starts nor ends with this game

must stop the game; it is as simple as that. The Irish Government must step in now. As the Social Democrats have outlined, all sporting events with Israel should be stopped. We should lead a campaign in Europe and the world to have Israel banned and boycotted … years, do not come in here and talk again unless they are willing to stand with this motion. This Government must stop the game

informed and evidence-based detailed contributions from everybody on these opposition benches, unified in our message for the Minister of State to stop the game. What a shame that those contributions fall not just on deaf ears but there are no ears here as there is barely … They are crying out for us as a globe to save humanity. Do the one thing that is in front of you; stop the game

sports, we see how politics has shaped football when it suits. The usual cry from those who do not want to stop the game is, "It is a game and we should not politicise sports." Let us think back. In Ireland we stood proud as a country when … future? That would certainly improve our coefficient. The Irish people have been clear in poll after poll that they want the game stopped. Let us show leadership across Europe and across the world. Let us stop this game and let us ensure that those people who are committing

call an Emergency General Meeting to vote on Ireland's participation in the football matches; — the growing support across Ireland for the "Stop the Game" campaign, calling on the FAI to refuse participation in international fixtures against Israel, while violations of international law and apartheid policies continue … genocide, occupation and apartheid. The Sinn Féin motion calls on the Government to support the calls of the Irish footballing community to stop the games on legal and moral grounds and to pave a clear pathway forward for the FAI to do the moral thing and refuse

have suffered and are suffering death and injury on a daily basis. For their dreams and their safety, Ireland should not play this game. Stop this game

movement of countries refusing to be complicit with the dystopian terror that Netanyahu is inflicting on Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. Stopping the game would give hope that there still remains a universal value called, "Our common humanity". Ireland could be a candle in the dark … Government is on the wrong side of history. It is going against the Irish people. The movement will grow until this game is stopped. Stop an cluiche. Déan an rud ceart. Seas suas do Gaza. Caithfidh Éire dóchas a thabhairt don Phalaistín. The game must be stopped

Just to make it clear, there are actually two matches. Many of us are saying "Stop the game" but it should be "Stop the games". I got an email back from Brian Kerr when I contacted him in relation to this and he made the point, which … solitary thing she could have done. We have to rely yet again on the ordinary people of this country to mobilise and stop that match. If it is not stopped beforehand, we have to gather and prevent it happening that day. I am confident we can do that

Ennis on his maiden speech. Sinn Féin fully supports the motion to exclude Israel from sporting fixtures. We also stand with the Stop the Game campaign, which includes a huge number of organisations and individuals across Ireland, from football clubs, fan clubs and trade unions to students, players … respect the values of human rights, justice and international law. It must stand up against genocide in Gaza and Israeli apartheid and stop the games

Shush. People are going take the law into their own hands and organise a campaign. Stop the Game was launched last week. Many high-profile sports people, personalities and politicians are now gearing up to organise to stop that game, and I think it will be stopped. Would

power in its lobby that there will never be consensus. Ireland needs to lead the way. Ireland needs to say that these games must stop, and all games with Israel must stop. We should not be involved in any sport or any economics. We should say to them

question nobody asked. This game should not take place in a neutral venue. It should just not take place. We need to stop the game

playing a game of football against a state that does that to children is disgusting. The Government should support the boycott and stop the game

weight of the issue. I was at the sport committee when the Minister of State said he was not going to the game. I welcome that and I understand his hands might be tied in a sense but we need to fast-forward from 1981 to November … This is about the current regime that is in place. We need to do everything to oppose it and we need to stop the game

motion. We ask merely that the Government stand on the right side of this and back the growing campaign to stop this game and gives the FAI the protection and cover to do the right thing and protect those who don the green jersey, so they know when … moral choice that their Government is on their side. That is what this motion is about and that is why we must stop this game

street, no platform for our soccer fans to have their voices heard. Irish fans would have no issue with having a home game taken from them if it meant that the Irish people and Irish soccer were taking a stand against Israel's participation. Finally, I would like … care about standing up for the oppressed in the only ways that ordinary Irish people have at their disposal. Stop the game, Minister

like scripts but I will speak very bluntly. The Government just does not have the balls to stand up to genocide. If this game goes ahead, you might as well bring in who I call Netanyahu the Devil along and dress him up in Prada and we will … being acknowledged as normal is absolutely unbelievable and unimaginable. Yesterday, I listened to a debate in the audiovisual room from the Stop the Game campaign. One thing that struck me was there were 100 children lined up on a soccer pitch in Palestine. They placed them so close

Government response to public opinion, to the stop the game campaign and to the massive pressure it is now under is a continuation to its basic approach to the issue of Palestine. It is to have words. It is to hide. It is to engage in cowardice … should not be playing these people. Ireland should be leading the way in isolating Israel on the world stage. That starts with stopping the game

game. In the late 2000s, I played in the top division in Meath and Louth. We could not use our home pitch for games because it was just not up to standard, like so many others in the competitive league. In our case, our home pitch was where … versus Israel and Israel versus Ireland. Netanyahu is a war criminal. His regime is genocidal. We cannot facilitate this attempt at sportswashing. Stop the game

around the globe. Yet, here we find it being used as something negative. Genocide and murder are being hidden behind soccer, a game that is so positive. The Government has a job of work to do here. We have to recognise that this is not about the rules … plagued by what is happening in Israel. It is totally wrong, and the Minister and Government need to stand up and say "Stop the game", so that we can truly identify with the people being oppressed in Gaza and the West Bank

from the stop-the-game question that I specifically put to him on Tuesday night