Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals
2:00 am
Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent)
Am I right in saying, and I am sorry but this is core on that question, that the original policy purpose was to address the risk of human rights and environmental abuses in a supply chain but now, the obligation on large corporations to assess that risk has been removed, except if an NGO happens to do an investigation and get it to their attention? That original purpose was reducing human rights and environmental risk down the supply chain. How is that still there? It is not still there for the company to do it. It is not there for states to do it. Are we just saying "if NGOs happen to do it"?
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