Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 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

2:00 am

Mr. Declan Smyth:

The purpose of the Bill is to deliver on the Government's commitment in the programme for Government to prohibit the import of goods from settlements in the OPT. The purpose of the Long Title of a Bill is essentially to provide a Minister, and the courts ultimately, with information as to the purposes, principles and policies of the Act. The purpose here is to prohibit the import of goods.