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:

They have asserted that but the authorities they have cited for that deal with the freedom to provide services within the Internal Market of the European Union. They are advancing, I understand, an argument that, by analogy, the same could apply in relation to external trade in goods but they have not actually said that in their opinion.