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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) (2 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Yesterday's witnesses said there were emails and a lot of Internet stuff, and that would be difficult. Mr. Liston heard them.

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: Mr. Liston does not accept that what the witnesses said yesterday is the case.

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 want to use my time as effectively as possible.

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 know labelling was mentioned earlier. The point made at yesterday's meeting, when Senator Black was in attendance and her colleagues have heard what was said, was that it would be complex to do the services aspect. While the goods are identifiable, the services could include third parties and intermediaries. It would be complex to nail the services aspect. What is the Senator's response?

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 join with colleagues who paid tribute to our colleague Senator Black for her pioneering work in this area. I do not think we can lose sight of that in the discussion. I will make a comment initially and then ask a couple of questions. I strongly believe that the benefit of this legislation is in the areas of moral leadership and optics. That is borne out by the witnesses' response to...

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: Sanctions are different. Is that what Mr. Smyth is saying?

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: Which it would not achieve in this.

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: It will not be achieved here. Mr. Smyth has answered that question. Mr. Smyth made the obvious point that trade was the exclusive competence of the EU and that it was only in very limited circumstances where that could be breached, as it were. I will come to the ICJ, which Mr. Smyth talked about, but will he please elaborate in layman's terms on the limited conditions that we can breach...

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...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome our guests and thank them for being here. Returning to the question of social workers, I accept of course that they are needed. From my work in my area at home over the years, I know many other sectors of the population need social workers as well. It would be an unreasonable situation if the money to pay the social workers was ultimately coming from Traveller accommodation per...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: In a general sense, and I commend the overall role of the local authorities in this regard, but it should not be the case that the costs for the social workers come out of the budget for housing for Travellers. It would be very bad practice.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: That is reassuring. If there is any supplementary information, I would like to get that too.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: With great respect, I think it is wrong that social workers are being paid from the Traveller accommodation budget because social workers are needed by the entire population. We are not going to resolve the matter here and just wanted to put the matter on the record. On the HAP schemes, I presume the witnesses would agree the ideal is that few Travellers or indeed, very few or any of the...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: So not racially.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Do the witnesses agree that it is not ideal and it would be much better if people were in social housing?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes, it is not the ideal for anybody. In the initial presentation, reference was made to solar panels and retrofitting and fuel poverty. The latter is a real issue here and, God knows and God forbid, with what is happening in the world at the moment could become a shocking issue. Can the witnesses comment on how the retrofitting of Traveller houses fits into the overall retrofitting...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Well done and congratulations on that great initiative. Is Traveller housing part of the general retrofitting schemes in every county?