John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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As we had anticipated finishing around about now, there is no obligation on our witnesses to stay but we would like them to for another 15 or 20 minutes. If they cannot do so, we will understand it.

The chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations described Ireland's occupied territories Bill as blatantly antisemitic. We all know the answer to that question here. This is quite a profound charge against the Legislature and against the country. If the witnesses are comfortable, I would like each of them in turn to address that very briefly as they see fit.