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)

Mr. Ronnie Downes:

The Deputy must be fair. The European Union law applies to all goods coming into the European Single Market. It states that if a product is coming from Israel it can be labelled "made in Israel". If it is coming from the occupied territories it has to have one of a number of labels: if it is from an Israeli settlement it must say "Israeli settlement Golan Heights" or "Israeli settlement West Bank". If it was coming from Palestine, which is not an Israeli settlement, the label says "made in Palestine". That is the law. I am not aware of any basis to think that-----

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