Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What I am saying is that the overwhelming majority of contributions to this debate focused on Gaza. That is really important; all I am saying is there should be balance on both sides, as I said about the Council also. I already addressed Deputy Harkin's point. I counted the number of contributions. I am also looking for this balance. On the Irish position, we have actively divested through ISIF. Last April, we removed funding - Irish State money - from investments in the West Bank. We have gone ahead in every we can in this regard. If we are proponents of international law, which we are, and have legal advice that the occupied territories Bill is not consistent with the correct legal approach, we would be taking a step across our own legal advice and position of being rigorous about the application of international law generally if we were to pass the Bill. It would be contradictory and self-defeating. The correct competence is at a European level. We continue to advocate for that and do it within rule of law structures. That is the technical legal answer.

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