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:
No, it is not a points system. It feeds into what you would call a holistic assessment on a case-by-case basis of a particular product or service. If an accounting software programme is going to a company in Israel, for example, we have regard to the nature of the product and service and then other criteria relating to a Department of Foreign Affairs assessment of human rights considerations relevant to the country of destination. When all of that is taken in the round, we take a view about whether it is safe to export that particular accounting software, in this example, to that destination.
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