Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 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: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Gerry Liston:
The language on services in the occupied territories Bill is something that could be at least used as a starting point for a ban on services to be inserted into this Bill. The provisions on goods in the heads of Bill and in the occupied territories Bill refer to the Customs Act 2015, which has a whole legal architecture for dealing with prohibitions on imports of various kinds of goods, and includes offences. The offences are not so obvious in the heads of Bill but they are there in relation to goods. As I said, the offences for services could be drawn from the text of the occupied territories Bill.
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