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:
To be very clear again, our members have been able to identify where there is goods trade. They do not know from their systems, and do not have a code on a system that can identify, where their services trade might relate to areas whose postcodes are covered by the Bill. They do not have that on their systems and cannot know it. They would have to do a really extensive audit and business process examination to determine it. Right now, they do not know what they would be measuring that against. No legislation has been published. It has been mentioned in public discourse and that is the extent of it. They cannot go to their operations and legal teams and quantify something that has not in any way been firmed up in draft legislation.
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