Dia dhaoibh a dhaoine uaisle,

Tá an-áthas orm a bheith anseo inniu.

Thank you for that warm welcome. I would also like to thank the Holocaust Education Trust Ireland for inviting me to join you all on this important day during which we remember the eleven million people, including six million Jews who lost their lives in the concentration camps of Europe.

In 2000, Ireland signed the Stockholm Declaration and, in doing so, as a nation we undertook, along with other European partners…