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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: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: No, you do not. I say that with the greatest of respect.
- 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) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: No. Your final point came-----
- 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) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: No.
- 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) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: No.
- 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) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: Senator, will you have some respect for the Chair?
- 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) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: I have given the Senator significant latitude. Her time is over.
- 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) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: It is over to the witness.
- 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) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: Everyone wants to give their time to Senator Higgins. The other Deputy Brennan has offered as well but I will not allow both of them to give all this additional time to Senator Higgins. I am next. As a businessman and from a business perspective, Mr. O'Brien says this is riddled with danger. Is he familiar with any effort to combat the misinformation?
- 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) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: I do not mean to interrupt Mr. O'Brien but in the USA, is he familiar with business people asking why is Ireland adopting this stance? Is he aware of any efforts being made to combat 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: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: I ask specifically about the USA. Who would Mr. O'Brien expect to combat that kind of misinformation?
- 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) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: The impression I get is there seems to be a monumental failure to combat this misinformation. It is not just with this. Globally, misinformation is a big issue across a whole range of matters. I am not just isolating this but it seems to me that business people are asking legitimate questions and they are getting misinformed, disinformed and ill informed answers, and nobody seems to be...
- 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) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: Is that reasonably accurate?
- 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) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: We get a lot of chain mails and I have a huge number of mails about this. We are all sent them in good faith, in fairness. I could not quantify it and I have no evidence but from interacting with some people who have sent emails out of concern, they talk about services and I sense some of them do not know what services are. In my 90 seconds that are left, will Mr. O'Brien talk to the...
- 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) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: Are we talking about tech? If we break down tech, is it hardware and software?
- 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) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: What about the pharmaceutical industry?
- 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) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: Senator Higgins has now exhausted the time. so I will go to Mr. O'Brien for an answer.
- 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) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: The Senator has asked reasonable questions although, at first sight, they may appear to be outside the pre-legislative scrutiny process. We have not got full answers on how companies are operating in relation to what some committee members think is a parallel situation. Mr. O'Brien may not have been anticipating that question but if he could furnish us with a reply in writing afterwards,...
- 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) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: I do not expect Mr. O'Brien to answer now but I am sure he takes my point.
- 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) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: Yes, but Mr. O'Brien takes my point nonetheless.
- 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) (16 Jul 2025)
John Lahart: We covered that issue when Senator O'Loughlin was not here.