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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (11 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: 98. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will review the awarding criteria for the Bonn Comórtha Céad Bliain medal (2016) to ensure that long-serving members of the Defence Forces that left service prior to Easter 2016 will receive same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15952/24]

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: As was said, Ireland has seen a significant and welcome increase in corporate taxation receipts over recent years and, of course, it is right this House considers the most impactful way in which those receipts can be utilised to the benefit of the people. As Deputy Doherty said, given the potential windfall nature of the income received, we need to be considered and careful as to how it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: Are we not waiting for the responses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: I need clarification on a couple of points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: I thank Mr. Downes for the opening statement. In it, it is stated that IDA Ireland does not support companies linked to the occupied territories. How are those companies identified? I would like a response in order to facilitate follow-on questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: I need clarification on that question before I can ask my follow-up question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: I am happy if our guests can answer Senator Higgins’s questions now because they will inform the subsequent questions the rest of us will ask.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: For now, and then if we need to come back after-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: I have a feeling that Mr. Downes will be very efficient in his responses and we will all get an opportunity to come in at some point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: I will revert back to the previous question I asked. Mr. Downes said in his opening statement that IDA Ireland does not support companies linked to the occupied territories. How are those companies linked to the occupied territories?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: He may have missed. Mr. Hughes is essentially talking about elaborate Google searches, but there is also another way the IDA uses to identify companies that may be linked to the occupied territories. Is that not correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: It would be aware. It does not, therefore, give it any other prominence than just being aware of it. It is one of a number of aspects instead of a critical aspect. Is that what Mr. Hughes is saying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: For a bizarre reason we have never fully got to the bottom of, IDA Ireland engaged in a tender process for an Israel-based business development consultant as recently as last October. That process was finally abandoned. To allay concerns that were legitimately raised about that process, we received an assurance in the Dáil that the IDA would not target any Israeli company included in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: Why did Mr. Hughes’s Department, in response to a parliamentary question prior to this pre-legislative scrutiny meeting, set out the database of enterprises published by the UN as the critical deciding factor in what an IDA business development consultant would do when it was not even mentioned in his initial response today as one of the factors that would be taken into the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: To clarify, it was a very general parliamentary question on the business development consultant proposal. It was the Department that cited the UN database in response. The database was not referenced in the question. It was provided as an assurance, presumably on the basis that the database had important credibility in determining whether companies were linked to and profiting from the...