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

Patricia Stephenson (Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. O’Brien. It is coming to the end of the meeting and I appreciate that this can be quite tiring.

Mr. O’Brien has just spoken about the inability to quantify the services dimension. I am just a bit confused about that in the context of the EU–Israel trade agreement. It is true that companies are obliged to make a distinction between goods and services trade in both the occupied territories and Israel. There is already an obligation to map it out for all types of trade, and that is because the settlements are not part of the EU–Israel trade agreement. Are IBEC members currently not making that distinction in their trade?

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