Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 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. Fergal O'Brien:

I think that options paper is helpful, and it is our preference that this be co-ordinated at an EU level. The other issue, which I already addressed, was the issue of the anti-boycott legislation and the reporting requirements. Our members or anyone we have spoken to cannot at this stage be definitive as to what the issues or implications of that would be, even for a ban on goods. That remains a risk factor in our view. We have the reputational risk, and we have this reporting issue and risk. They are interconnected.

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