Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank Professor Lynk for his time and for sharing his experience and expertise with the committee. It is most welcome. His report makes for very difficult and very disturbing reading. However, his report does not do that in isolation. We have had other contributors before the committee, and other reports and opening statements, that have been equally disturbing. I will focus on one aspect of this issue, which is in his very final recommendation. I will keep this very brief and will not go over what other contributors have said.

It is No. 62. It is the very last sentence:

The Special Rapporteur recommends that the United Nations re-establish the Special Committee Against Apartheid to investigate any and all practices of systematic discrimination and oppression purportedly amounting to apartheid anywhere in the world, including the occupied Palestinian territory.

Why has Professor Lynk included that clear ask as a final recommendation? How would that committee be re-established? How important is it in addressing the issue in the Palestinian territory today and in ensuring we do not see apartheid become reality in other areas under occupation?