Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 April 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed)
Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source
The feedback message we got very strongly in the previous session was that it had exclusions with regard to fossil fuels and cluster munitions because it was politically required to do so legally. However, when we asked at that time - of course, there seems to have been a change of policy in the last couple of weeks - the representatives made it very clear that they wait for guidance, effectively, from the Oireachtas and from legislation in respect of some of these issues. Again, it seems that makes the case for this legislation being necessary, even if divestment has taken place. I will finish now because I am conscious of the time.
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