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

Matt Carthy: We are talking about a pre-legislative Bill in respect of Irish funds being invested in companies that profit from illegal settlements. Mr. Downes can take it as a given, unless it is stated otherwise, that we are referring to the trading relationship with Israel.

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

Matt Carthy: Okay. I will be very quick because I am aware there are other members. Mr. Downes mentioned in an earlier remark that the Taoiseach, along with the Spanish Prime Minister, has requested that the Commission undertake an urgent review of the Israel association agreement in terms of the human rights clause. Has Mr. Downes's Department carried out a trade analysis of what will happen and how...

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

Matt Carthy: Would that not be a prudent thing to do?

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

Matt Carthy: In this instance, the Irish Government has sought a review of the association agreement but the Department has not carried out any contingency planning for how that outworking might go. Is it fair to say that it is not Mr. Downes's expectation that the association agreement will be suspended any time soon? Otherwise, the Department would, in fact, have carried out contingency planning for...

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 just one more 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: If the trade is suspended, that will have implications for Irish companies - "Yes" or "No".

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

Matt Carthy: Did the Department carry out contingency planning for the implications of a hard Brexit, for example?

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

Matt Carthy: Even though that was never the most likely scenario. Is that not correct? The most likely scenario was always that there would be a trading relationship beyond WTO rules. My point is that the Irish Government, with one other government, has requested a review of an association agreement currently in place. There will be implications for the Irish economy, for Irish companies and FDI...

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

Matt Carthy: We do not know for sure because we have not carried out any contingency planning. I have one last question. I am conscious of the time.

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 coming to it now and I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for his indulgence. I put on the record my commendation of the flexibility shown by the Chair today, and my appreciation of other members for their patience. Mr. Downes knows this is part of pre-legislative scrutiny in respect of the illegal Israeli settlements divestment Bill. There is no need for this pre-legislative scrutiny....

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

Matt Carthy: In fairness, we could get the answers to Senator Higgins’s questions and then I will come back if needs be 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 am dealing specifically with the occupied territories. Mr. Hughes might have missed a source that the IDA uses for information purposes.

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

Matt Carthy: Is one of those sources the UN database that is referred to in the legislation we are scrutinising today?

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

Matt Carthy: That is what contingency planning is about. When you are not sure what the outcome will be, you plan for the different contingencies. The Department has not planned for any of the contingencies.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (10 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: 44. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will support the efforts of Palestine to secure full membership of the United Nations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15542/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (9 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: 12. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Ireland’s position regarding reform the P5 veto on the United Nations Security Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13646/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (9 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: 47. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, following the lodging of a Declaration of Intervention by Ireland in the case of South Africa v Israel under the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice, it is his intention that Ireland would submit written observations or seek an oral hearing from the court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15169/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: 35. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of emergency appointments available with the passport service; by location, by month in the years 2019 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14848/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (9 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: 36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the points of law under which he intends to intervene in the case taken by South Africa against Israel under the Genocide Convention; by when he intends to bring his draft Declaration of Intervention under Article 63 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice to Cabinet; and if he will make a statement on the...