Middle East
Dail Éireann — 2023-09-28
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

We have taken action in terms of the differentiation between Israel and illegal settlements in terms of the importation of goods. That is law, and we work to enforce that. On the divestment Bill, as the Deputy knows, there was a timed amendment in relation to that. The Minister for Finance, Deputy McGrath, is dealing with that because it seeks to amend the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA, Acts, as the Deputy knows. It is a complex issue to resolve but we are going to do it. Therefore, we wanted to allow appropriate time to consider the implications of that Private Member's Bill to explore possible ways to proceed. We proposed a nine-month timed amendment. That gives us the time to consider the intent of the Bill, including consideration of alternative non-legislative based approaches or a combination of legislative and non-legislative based approaches, which would achieve the outcome we want in respect of that particular Bill. As I said earlier, this conflict-----

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Sitting date: 2023-09-28