Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion

Mr. Nick Ashmore:

We have not divested at this point. What we are doing and focusing on at the moment is working with the Department, as it works on the draft legislation to exclude investments that are active in the occupied Palestinian territories, OPT. Pending the outcome of that process, we will then be ready to enact the requirements of the legislation as it comes through. Given the time and the work put in by the Department and the Dáil, we have to respect that and not pre-empt the Oireachtas decision. That is why we have not made any change at this point.