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:
As I said earlier, we have got feedback on this Bill from Irish-owned exporters and internationally owned FDI companies. Those trading goods mainly talk to us around the international reputation aspect that they pick up in their global connections as they do business internationally. That clearly is a factor. The US companies are concerned about complying with anti-boycott legislation even in the context of goods. A whole range of companies are worried about the implementation realities if this legislation was to be extended to services. This affects a whole range of Irish and internationally owned companies because of the complexity of value creation and supply chains in the services sector.
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