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
Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
I thank Mr. Keown and Mr. Smyth for being here. One of the conclusions of the ICJ opinion of July of last year was that states should abstain from entering into economic or trade dealings with Israel concerning the occupied territories or parts thereof. On the balance of probability, in the witnesses' legal view, is that reference to economic or trade dealings in the ICJ opinion more likely to refer to trade in goods alone or is it more likely to refer to trade in goods and services?
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