Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion
Mr. Oliver Gilvarry:
We would be reliant on the UN updating the list. The list came in in 2020 and was updated in 2023. The most recent update from the UN was basically the phraseology that would be updated. The OHCHR noted:
In absence of regular budget resources required for annual updating of the database on an open-ended basis, the present update has been prepared within existing resources, on an exceptional basis[.]
We understand resources were provided to the UN for that end but we are not sure whether those resources would be there for updates. We would be reliant on the UN to update the list and take these companies off it even though they may not be involved in the occupied territories.
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