Ms Evie Clarke:

I will tie in Senator Higgins’s point about what this committee could do in response to the session today. That maximum harmonisation piece is crucial. Putting a ceiling on what Ireland can do to address human rights and environmental abuses is a massive issue and there is broad alignment on the severity of that. We would be very glad to see formal, written input from this committee to the Commission on this issue and on the issues we align on, including the full risk-based due diligence approach, the harmonised civil liability regime and the limitations on the actions Ireland can take to introduce human rights and environmental due diligence.