Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Middle East peace process is discussed at almost all Foreign Affairs Council meetings. We had a discussion on it in October and another discussion took place at the informal meeting in September which focused largely on Gaza and the difficulties in that area arising from contamination, particularly of water. What I am seeking is that at some point in the coming months the Council will return to the May conclusions, review what has been taking place since then and examine certain measures that might be taken by the European Union in order to pursue these conclusions. The letter I sent to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade was intended to set this out in a comprehensive way. I believed it was desirable that the committee members should have available to them the kind of assessment that is available to me, for example, concerning the prospect of a ban on settlement products, how that might be done and how we might pursue it at EU level. There would also be an assessment of the likely impact of such a measure.

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