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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 (1 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: And this would constitute that.

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 (1 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I take Mr. Smyth's point. He might correct me if I am wrong, but if I understand him correctly, we are really relying here on the ICJ ruling.

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 (1 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: With that small competence.

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 (1 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Smyth. I think I have it there, Chair. The question everyone is asking has been well asked, but my question was only to re-emphasise it. I would also say to colleagues that the big issue here is actually speed if we consider the overall geopolitical context at the moment. We need to go for speed here, even if we do something less than what would be the ideal or what we would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: The Minister of State has said that new procedures have been introduced to achieve greater efficiency and oversight. Will he just explain what the new procedures are, please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: The Minister of State said on the second page of his presentation that the OPW works hard to ensure efficiency and, to support the greater efficiency and oversight, new procedures have been introduced. What are the new procedures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: The Minister of State said that the OPW has an updated project management system. He might explain what that is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: The Minister of State said that the OPW follows infrastructure guidelines. What are those? I will tell the Minister of State what prompts the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: For procurement guidelines and financial spending?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: What prompts the question, and I will move on to something different then, is that in 2015 a new Garda station was approved for Bailieborough town in County Cavan. It is a very good job, it is in progress, it is lovely and it will be good. There is no issue there with the quality of what I have seen. I am not expert but it looks good. However, the station will not be open until next year...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: It has been crazy. It is a case in point, and these repeat themselves. We should try to bring them forward and have quick and efficient delivery. The Minister of State was with me and other colleagues in the mid-Cavan area several years ago during the very bad winter with all the rains. When there is significant rain which, unfortunately, is a feature of winters now and will be as it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State.

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 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I pay genuine tribute to Senator Black and her team for their extraordinarily great work, the consistency she has shown in her pioneering work and for staying with it. To use a sort of cliché one hears in politics, when it was neither profitable nor popular Senator Black was always with this. I say "Well done" on that. What is happening in Gaza is, to use an appropriate term, an...

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 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Does the Senator think the legislation does that anyway with the inclusion of goods?

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 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: We recognised the State of Palestine a year ago-----

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 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: -----and this legislation could have a similar effect. Does the Senator not think so?

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 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: The Senator feels certain.

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 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: The Senator also wants extra time. Will she give us her sense of the time it will take to achieve the passage of the legislation? That would be historic and momentous. It would be a great day and we would all love it. I would love the complete package. How long does the Senator think it will take to get that done? When does she envisage it happening, including services? How long would...

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 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: My final question-----