Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 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: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Ms Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh:
I am happy to go first. Services could be anything. There are IT services, construction services, etc. Anything not directly a trade in goods is capable of being a trade in services. The Bill, obviously, is concerned with the occupied Palestinian territory and the obligation that it is meeting is the obligation set out in the advisory opinion, which is for states to distinguish in their dealings between the territory of the State of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. That is the focus of the Bill as it is drafted.