Ireland has no plans to expel Israel's ambassador Dana Erlich following remarks she made over the weekend, the Taoiseach has told the Dáil.
Leo Varadkar was responding to a call from opposition party People Before Profit in the Dáil following remarks by Israel's ambassador to Ireland Dana Erlich.
"We didn't expel the Russian ambassador, and I don't think there is anyone in this house who's been as supportive of Ukraine's battle for freedom as I have, but we took a very particular view that it's important to have some line of communications open and that's why we have ambassadors. "It serves nothing to close them. Even countries at war with each other have ambassadors and that's for that obvious reason."
Earlier, during Leaders' Questions in the Dáil, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald urged the Taoiseach to press fellow European leaders to call for a full and lasting ceasefire in the region.The Sinn Féin leader said:"Calling for a humanitarian pause isn't good enough, pausing the slaughter to facilitate aid into Gaza only to allow the slaughter resume is a most perverse interpretation of humanitarianism and cannot be the international community's response.
"It may not be possible for us to adopt a common position. We don't have a single foreign policy across the European Union. The Taoiseach added:"That's not how you do this job. It's not how you actually get things done in international affairs.
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