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
Mr. Gerard Keown:
I can only go by the CSO figure, as published. In response to an earlier question, I said there is a difficulty with regard to figures on anything originating from a settlement. Therefore, we do not know, accurately, the volume of goods originating from settlements that may be in circulation in the EU market. As Mr. Smyth has been explaining, when it comes to services, which, by definition, are intangible and can often involve multiple inputs from different locations, it can become even harder to identify where they come from. We do not have an accurate picture.
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