Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh (Kildare South, Sinn Fein)
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I will go back to a question I had. I arrived a bit late, so I do not know if it has been asked. The opening statement highlighted that the Bill will meet the programme for Government commitment to ban the import of goods from the occupied territories. The witnesses cite this as following from the ICJ advisory opinion, which is a matter of considerable interest to both Houses of the Oireachtas and to the Irish public. Do they accept that the ICJ advisory opinion did not distinguish between the trade in goods and services and that the original occupied territories Bill prohibited trade in both goods and services? Do the witnesses have any reason to believe that prohibiting the trade of services is not important to the Irish people? Are they not allowed answer that question either?