Ms Cait Moran:

I may not have the details in terms of the title to the properties but we can certainly provide follow-up information to the committee on that.

The importance of providing legal advice is to support the families who are threatened in these situations to ensure they have access to legal processes. This includes basic things like access to funds for that kind of legal advice and there is a route through the courts for it.

Obviously, Ireland's position is based on international law. That would be the primacy we would attach to the situation. Without having a detailed knowledge of the title and land issues around it, the general point we would make is that those families have been resident in those homes for an extended period of time. It is extremely harsh, to say the least, that they face threatened eviction and to be frank, this level of intimidation. We can see the wider impact, as the Minister set out in his statement to the Seanad, in terms of the situation on the ground and the tensions in East Jerusalem in recent weeks.

The role of the support through the consortium is to ensure that those who need it have access to proper legal advice. We are happy to come back with any further information we can.