Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence
Engagement with the Irish Coalition for Business and Human Rights
Ms Sorcha Tunney:
I will briefly respond to that because it will only require a quick answer. Then I will I try to collate all the other questions. We are aware that the Department with responsibility is the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. We are planning to write to it to engage in a similar manner as this committee. This week we launched a report. We are having our initial meetings. We have met with the Department as a coalition following writing to the Tánaiste. We are therefore engaging with the Department, but we also wish to engage with the committee. I thank the Chair for his offer and, if possible, we would be delighted if he were to follow up on that. Forgive me if I have missed a few questions. I will try as best as possible to group them. I will call first on Mr. O’Neill from Christian Aid Ireland. He will try to deal with Deputy Brady’s questions around the UN treaty, the ESB and Colombia. He will talk through where it is at now. Maybe we could bring in Ms Mateus Parra on this as well. Mr. O’Neill has a good idea of the questions he wanted to cover so I will let him take over here.
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