Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 December 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence
Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation: Discussion
Ms Barbara Walshe:
We have the Global Ireland strategy at the moment. I was looking at the global goals. The UN and other countries have made commitments to meet global goals on the eradication of poverty worldwide and on education, women's issues, peace security, climate action and so on by 2030. I noticed recently that businesses around the world have also rode in behind this in an effort to mobilise business towards meeting those global goals. There is always a tension between the protection of human rights and the goals of business. I wish I could give the Deputy a better answer than that.