Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What I have clearly said in relation to the Irish Government's position is that we will bring forward legislation in relation to the occupied territories and that we will fulfil the commitment in the programme for Government which focuses on goods. I said we will also constructively engage on other issues, including the issues the Deputy is raising. However, we are going to have to look at everything through the prism of law and of how things can be operationalised and work. This is a complex area. I was the Taoiseach who asked the Attorney General to review again the possibility of legally being able to do something in relation to occupied territories and trade in the context of the ICJ advisory opinion.

We got legal advice that it may now be possible to do something. We should not, though, fool ourselves as to the breadth of that ability. This is a very narrow path in terms of making sure any law the Oireachtas passes is, exactly as it should be, lawful. To do anything else would be, not intentionally but accidentally, symbolic rather than meaningful.

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