Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025

2:00 am

Photo of Alice-Mary HigginsAlice-Mary Higgins (Independent)

The relevant Union legal Act is downstream. It is just a matter of whether there are regulations on how the EU might apply it. In terms of the right of a state to act, the public policy is the ground. That is the slim legal ground on which the Department is leaning on, is it not? It is the public policy principle.

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