Seanad debates

Tuesday, 30 January 2018

Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed)

 

2:30 pm

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is the point I am making. No legislation was put in place to organise that boycott. We can organise a boycott in this country without legislation. While I welcome the Bill, I have concerns about it. I suppose I am looking at it purely from a legal point of view. In particular, I note that section 4 of the Bill, which relates to regulation, provides that "the Minister may make regulations for the purposes of enabling any provision of this Act to have full effect". The problem with the making of such regulations is that it may be in breach of EU regulations. That is one of the issues I have with this legislation. The second issue I have relates to section 7 of the Bill.

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