Dan Boyle (Green Party)

I welcome the inclusion of this amendment, its passage in Dáil Éireann and it being reported to Seanad Éireann. This amendment was recommended by the Green Party and I am glad that the Minister has seen fit to include it in the Bill. It is important that we have internal compliance procedures for licence holders and it is important that those procedures be mandatory. It is also important that licences include a level of post-export examination as regards the destination of the goods and technology as this will help ensure they are not used for military purposes and that they are not a factor in human rights abuses abroad. This amendment represents an improvement to the Bill and for that reason should be welcomed by the House in the manner it has been welcomed by those who campaigned for the inclusion of such an aspect to the Bill.