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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: 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.

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 fine. The Senator was not to know 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: In the interests of helping the public to understand all of this, I will go back to when the officials presented the Bill to us. Goods was one heading. There were ten headings for services, with 150 subheadings, if memory serves me correctly. Is there anybody who could populate that for us as a committee? It would be very helpful for us to do that because it illustrates and speaks 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: On the first question, does Mr. O'Brien think he could do this for us?

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: Last, but by no means least, we have Senator Stephenson next.

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 there anything Mr. O'Brien did not get to say or does he wish to make any concluding remarks?

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 have made a couple of requests of Mr. O'Brien and IBEC. He might bear in mind the reporting deadlines we face. If he could get that information to us as quickly as possible, we would really appreciate it.

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: Thank you. As I said, Mr. O'Brien was the only solo witness we had and I thank him for his answers, presentation, frankness and overview of the challenges he sees. To all the members, the clerk, all the committee-related staff, the facilities people who kept us all on mic and live and for those watching at home - in their thousands no doubt - this meeting is now adjourned sine die.

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: When American businesses raise with Mr. O'Brien's members why Ireland is doing this or that, would it assist companies if they had an answer, for example, if they were assisted by the Government in answering this? For example, this is not a boycott of Israeli goods; it is a boycott of goods emanating from the occupied territories. If services were included, it would not be a boycott of...

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: Tell us a brief story. Is Mr. O'Brien saying that some part of a team could be located somewhere and its members are not physically making a service but they are involved in the research and development of a service or something like that and suddenly, that counts?