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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-11-28/26/
28 Nov 2018 -
Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Committee Stage
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-01-24/9/
24 Jan 2018 -
Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: First Stage
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-01-30/7/
30 Jan 2018 -
Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Second Stage
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-01-30/7/
30 Jan 2018 -
Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Second Stage
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-07-11/18/
11 Jul 2018 -
Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed)
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-01-30/9/
30 Jan 2018 -
Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed)
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-11-28/28/
28 Nov 2018 -
Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed)
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-12-05/27/
5 Dec 2018 -
Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-12-05/27/
5 Dec 2018 -
Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages
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Debate: Select Committee On Foreign Affairs And Trade, And Defence
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_foreign_affairs_and_trade_and_defence/2019-12-12/3/
12 Dec 2019 -
Draft Committee Report on the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/25/
23 Jan 2019 -
Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/24/
23 Jan 2019 -
Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-24/26/
24 Jan 2019 -
Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-24/26/
24 Jan 2019 -
An Ceann Comhairle I must now deal with a postponed division relating to Second Stage of the Control...of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, taken on Wednesday, 23 January 2019....On the question, "That the Bill be now read a Second Time", a division was claimed and in accordance
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-07-09/5/
9 Jul 2019 -
Deputy Paul Murphy -----including the No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019 and the Control of Economic Activity...(Occupied Territories) Bill 2018.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-19/9/
19 Nov 2019 -
An Leas-Chathaoirleach Is the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill before the Dáil
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-19/9/
19 Nov 2019 -
Senator Michael McDowell The Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill is stuck.
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Debate: Select Committee On Foreign Affairs And Trade, And Defence
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_foreign_affairs_and_trade_and_defence/2019-12-12/10/
12 Dec 2019 -
Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade and Defence has completed its detailed scrutiny of the Control...of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories Bill) 2018, has laid a copy of the scrutiny report before...both Houses and recommends that the Bill proceeds to Committee Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-12-09/6/
9 Dec 2020 -
Deputy Thomas Pringle I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 198, the Bills which lapsed on the...SCHEDULE Bill Title: To be restored at: International Protection (Family Reunification...)(Amendment) Bill 2017 Order for Committee Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories...) Bill 2018 Order for Committee
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-01-30/9/
30 Jan 2018 -
In this very month, January 2018, an order was made for 1,000 new settlement homes....There is a procedure for activating this exception....The Bill does not simply relate to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories....It relates to occupied territories. I realise it can be a wide definition....The question is where do we draw the line on what are occupied territories.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-01-30/9/
30 Jan 2018 -
This is the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, which is a Private Members...' Bill....What we really need to know is what are the "occupied territories"....occupied by the Israelis since 1967....These measures could be difficult to enforce since imports from Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/25/
23 Jan 2019 -
in an occupied territory", simpliciter ....The Bill seeks to make it an offence for a person "to extract resources from an occupied territory in...The Bill carefully defines an "occupied territory" as a territory which is confirmed as "occupied" by...that have been occupied by armed forces operating under the control of a foreign power....In that context, it is clear that we should have a law to prevent occupying forces making economic gain
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/24/
23 Jan 2019 -
in an occupied territory", simpliciter ....The Bill seeks to make it an offence for a person "to extract resources from an occupied territory in...The Bill carefully defines an "occupied territory" as a territory which is confirmed as "occupied" by...that have been occupied by armed forces operating under the control of a foreign power....In that context, it is clear that we should have a law to prevent occupying forces making economic gain
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-01-24/9/
24 Jan 2018 -
Senator Frances Black I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to give effect...that purpose to make it an offence for a person to import or sell goods or services originating in an occupied...territory or to extract resources from an occupied territory in certain circumstances; and to provide
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-11-28/28/
28 Nov 2018 -
He talked about the Bill and the debate on it as being full of hatred, rage and racism, which is absolute...has already been rehearsed that various legal authorities have attested to the appropriateness of the Bill...his view, the legislation will help to "enhance differentiation between the State of Israel and the occupied...Palestinian territories" where illegal settlements are benefiting from economic relations maintained...With that in mind, he believes the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 can
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-01-30/6/
30 Jan 2018 -
Senator Jerry Buttimer The Order of Business is No. 1, Private Members' business, Control of Economic...Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 - Second Stage, to be taken at 4.45 p.m., with the time allocated...for the debate not to exceed two hours; and No. 2, Technological Universities Bill 2015 - Second Stage
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-12-05/8/
5 Dec 2018 -
Senator Catherine Noone The Order of Business is No. 1, Finance Bill 2018 - Committee Stage, to be...p.m., if not previously concluded; No. 2, Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill...2018 - Second Stage, to be taken on conclusion of No. 1 and to be adjourned not later than 3.30 p.m....previously concluded; No. 4, Private Members' business, Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories...) Bill 2018 – Report and Final Stages to be taken at 5.30 p.m. and to be adjourned after two hours, if
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-11-30/17/
30 Nov 2021 -
I wish to speak once again about the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018....The Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill was agreed across this Chamber....For me, the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill is the means by which we can send...The Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill is one that I believe the Minister feels...of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill back to this Chamber, or at least outline to us the
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-11-28/28/
28 Nov 2018 -
Senator David Norris What does this have to do with the relevant occupied territory?
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-11-28/28/
28 Nov 2018 -
The definition of "occupied territory" is not related to one particular corner of this planet and is...international law by rendering the importation of goods and the supply of services from an unlawfully occupied...territory to be a criminal offence, especially when the occupation amounts to a war crime....case that under various international conventions, it is a war crime to move one's population into territory
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Debate: Select Committee On Foreign Affairs And Trade, And Defence
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_foreign_affairs_and_trade_and_defence/2019-03-05/5/
5 Mar 2019 -
select committee is adjourned until 2 p.m. on Thursday, 28 March 2019, when we will meet to consider the Control...of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, including correspondence received in relation
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-05-11/3/
11 May 2021 -
I am not even going to ask the Taoiseach about the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories...) Bill 2018, which Fianna Fáil supported during the period of the confidence and supply agreement and...to bring a motion to the UN Security Council demanding that Israel halt settlement expansion in the Occupied...Territories.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-11-28/28/
28 Nov 2018 -
This brings up the question of disputed territory. What is an occupied territory?...While I do not want to take away from the meaning and potential benefits of this Bill, I have a concern...territory is....Yesterday's occupied territory might be a liberated nation....Tomorrow's liberated nation might become an occupied territory.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-06-24/23/
24 Jun 2020 -
My second question relates to the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018....Donald Trump, to annex the remaining settlements in the West Bank, show clearly the importance of that Bill...The Bill is a chance to shine a continuous light on the horrendous treatment of the Palestinian people...I ask specifically whether the Minister of State will reconsider ensuring that the Control of Economic...Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 is renegotiated into a programme for Government, given what
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-06-24/24/
24 Jun 2020 -
My second question relates to the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018....Donald Trump, to annex the remaining settlements in the West Bank, show clearly the importance of that Bill...The Bill is a chance to shine a continuous light on the horrendous treatment of the Palestinian people...I ask specifically whether the Minister of State will reconsider ensuring that the Control of Economic...Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 is renegotiated into a programme for Government, given what
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-06-03/6/
3 Jun 2020 -
The Tánaiste can do something as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, through the Control of Economic...Activities (Occupied Territories) Bill....Will the Tánaiste make provision in respect of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories...) Bill 2018 in the new programme for Government?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/25/
23 Jan 2019 -
Deputy Brendan Howlin I heard what the Tánaiste stated regarding potential challenges to the Bill....of any unlawfully occupied territory....Such economic exploitation of occupied territory is an issue that resonates with Ireland’s history....Our declaration of independence from the British Empire required the nascent Irish State to wrest control...There could not be meaningful independence if the economy was excessively under foreign control.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/24/
23 Jan 2019 -
Deputy Brendan Howlin I heard what the Tánaiste stated regarding potential challenges to the Bill....of any unlawfully occupied territory....Such economic exploitation of occupied territory is an issue that resonates with Ireland’s history....Our declaration of independence from the British Empire required the nascent Irish State to wrest control...There could not be meaningful independence if the economy was excessively under foreign control.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-05-27/17/
27 May 2021 -
Ireland became the first EU nation to declare the expansion of Israeli settlements into the Palestinian territories...It follows on from Human Rights Watch referring to what is happening in those territories as a form of...decision taken by this Parliament this week, does the Tánaiste feel that now is the time to enact the Control...of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill that is awaiting Committee Stage?
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-11-28/28/
28 Nov 2018 -
My point, rather than a question, relates to section 11(b) and the definition of a settler within an occupied...territory....Within the Bill, there is an element of vagueness....One could draw the occupied territory on a map but the definition of a settler is another matter....This requires the Bill to provide more depth regarding the concept of a settler.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-22/3/
22 Jan 2019 -
) Bill 2018 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage....Wednesday’s business shall be No. 2, Local Government Bill 2018 - amendments from the Seanad; No. 9,...Private Members’ business shall be No. 1, Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018...2018 - Second Stage, resumed; and No. 10, Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018 - Order...of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [ Seanad ], shall be brought to a conclusion within
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Debate: Select Committee On Finance, Public Expenditure And Reform, And Taoiseach
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_finance_public_expenditure_and_reform_and_taoiseach/2018-11-07/2/
7 Nov 2018 -
Donohoe I move amendment No. 129: In page 98, line 9, after "apply" to insert the following: "and the activities...carried on by the controlled foreign company in its territory of residence were deemed to be carried
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-01-30/9/
30 Jan 2018 -
I commend Senator Black's approach in this Bill in distinguishing between Israel and the occupied territories...The Bill seeks to ensure Ireland upholds its humanitarian obligations by restricting economic activity...Defence, I have raised this issue with him and the Department on a number of occasions and know how actively...people and will see the rights of the Palestinian people who are so oppressed, particularly in the occupied...territories, respected at last.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-12-05/27/
5 Dec 2018 -
As a team, Sinn Féin in the Seanad is proud and happy to facilitate these Stages of the Control of Economic...Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 via our Private Members' time....resources originating in illegal settlements in occupied territories....on occupied land....In July 2018, the court further ruled that the EU's fisheries agreement with Morocco must not extend
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-06-11/5/
11 Jun 2020 -
Last week, I raised with the Tánaiste the Control of Economic Activities (Occupied Territories) Bill,...which seeks to ban the importation of illegal goods from settlements in the occupied West Bank....He has never made the advice public even though the vast majority of Deputies passed the occupied territories
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-01-30/9/
30 Jan 2018 -
This Bill has a noble and just aim....territories....in this state both turns a blind eye to deep human suffering and supports such illegal settlements economically...The Bill carefully recognises that the issue of whether territory is illegally occupied is a complex...Therefore, this Bill applies only to territories where there is clear international legal consensus on
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/25/
23 Jan 2019 -
I never fail to be appalled and horrified at how brutal the Israeli Government and occupying army can...As a nation of people who lived under a brutal occupier for hundreds of years, we should be acutely aware...involvement in the provision of services in such settlements and ban the extraction of resources from occupied...territories without the consent of the recognised authority of that territory....It would only affect goods produced in occupied territories built beyond Israel's borders, deemed illegal
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/24/
23 Jan 2019 -
I never fail to be appalled and horrified at how brutal the Israeli Government and occupying army can...As a nation of people who lived under a brutal occupier for hundreds of years, we should be acutely aware...involvement in the provision of services in such settlements and ban the extraction of resources from occupied...territories without the consent of the recognised authority of that territory....It would only affect goods produced in occupied territories built beyond Israel's borders, deemed illegal
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-12-18/17/
18 Dec 2019 -
I would also like to ask the Tánaiste about the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill...2018, which is before the Oireachtas....I am aware that there are different legal interpretations of this Bill....I wonder whether the Tánaiste has anything to say about the progress of the Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-06-19/9/
19 Jun 2019 -
message would be wheeled out in relation to my National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill...I only have two minutes, but prominent ones include the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories...) Bill 2018, the International Protection (Family Reunification) (Amendment) Bill 2017, the Petroleum...and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018, and now last night's...Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-01-30/7/
30 Jan 2018 -
I am delighted to table the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018....In the occupied Palestinian territories, people are forcibly kicked out of their homes, fertile farming...If enacted, the Bill will apply by default to territories in respect of which there is clear international...This includes the occupied Palestinian territories....The economic impact here would be low.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/25/
23 Jan 2019 -
Browne I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important issue, the Second Stage debate of the Control...of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018....Our Bill will not end illegal settlements but it will demonstrate Ireland's significant opposition to...They have been destroyed economically. The situation is desperate and deteriorating....I believe this Bill is a step in that direction.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-07-28/32/
28 Jul 2020 -
disappointed that the programme for Government did not include such positive international actions as the Control...of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 We need to look at how we give voice to and represent
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-06-24/18/
24 Jun 2021 -
, human rights violations and attempts to remove Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah and elsewhere in the occupied...territories....We also must move forward the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018....Will he recognise the state of Palestine and will he progress the 2018 Bill or, at the very least, ask
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Debate: Joint Committee On Foreign Affairs And Defence
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_foreign_affairs_and_defence/2022-02-22/2/
22 Feb 2022 -
Colm O'Gorman Deputy Brady mentioned the Control of Economic Activities (Occupied Territories) Bill,...We would encourage the Oireachtas and Government to get behind the Bill and allow it to pass through
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-11-29/17/
29 Nov 2018 -
The Tánaiste I have outlined on the record of the Seanad and publicly why we cannot support the Control...of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018....I understand the political frustration that produced the Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-06-24/23/
24 Jun 2020 -
Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett The decision of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party to drop the Control...of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 and leave it out of the proposed programme for...Was dropping the Bill the price of getting the seat on the UN Security Council?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-06-24/24/
24 Jun 2020 -
Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett The decision of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party to drop the Control...of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 and leave it out of the proposed programme for...Was dropping the Bill the price of getting the seat on the UN Security Council?
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-12-05/27/
5 Dec 2018 -
I welcome the Minister of State to the House and congratulate Senator Black and colleagues on this Bill...It is a Bill about respecting international law and ensuring that we control and restrict imports from...occupied territories, that is, territories that are recognised as illegally occupied under international...This Bill is entirely in keeping with that record of criticism of, and challenge to, illegal activity...I reiterate my party's support for the Bill and commend Senator Black.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-19/9/
19 Nov 2019 -
The Senators might table a Commencement matter to receive a more expiditious reply on the Control of...Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/24/
23 Jan 2019 -
Deputy Seán Crowe The Bill seeks to prohibit the importation and sale of goods, services and natural...resources originating from illegal settlements in occupied territories....Israel has occupied the West Bank region of Palestine since 1967 and in that time transferred more than...600,000 of its citizens to that territory....A "relevant occupied territory" is defined as one that has been confirmed as such by the International
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/25/
23 Jan 2019 -
Deputy Seán Crowe The Bill seeks to prohibit the importation and sale of goods, services and natural...resources originating from illegal settlements in occupied territories....Israel has occupied the West Bank region of Palestine since 1967 and in that time transferred more than...600,000 of its citizens to that territory....A "relevant occupied territory" is defined as one that has been confirmed as such by the International
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-11-28/28/
28 Nov 2018 -
I want no ambiguity about the position of my party and the Government on the occupied territories....We are not supporters in any fashion of the occupation of the territories.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/24/
23 Jan 2019 -
This Bill seeks to prohibit Ireland from trading in goods and services from occupied territories by prohibiting...We are not seeking to boycott Israel and we, of course, respect its territory, but we cannot support...that come from an occupied territory or to extract resources from an occupied territory....a territory illegally, so the positive impact is obvious....The Government's view of the Bill is that while Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are clearly
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/25/
23 Jan 2019 -
This Bill seeks to prohibit Ireland from trading in goods and services from occupied territories by prohibiting...We are not seeking to boycott Israel and we, of course, respect its territory, but we cannot support...that come from an occupied territory or to extract resources from an occupied territory....a territory illegally, so the positive impact is obvious....The Government's view of the Bill is that while Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are clearly
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/25/
23 Jan 2019 -
territories who are negatively affected....other people's territories illegally and profit, make a livelihood and benefit from occupying those...However, it is offside in terms of the occupied territories....It will not list any properties in the occupied territories....and the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2018.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/24/
23 Jan 2019 -
territories who are negatively affected....other people's territories illegally and profit, make a livelihood and benefit from occupying those...However, it is offside in terms of the occupied territories....It will not list any properties in the occupied territories....and the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2018.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Enterprise, Trade And Employment
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_enterprise_trade_and_employment/2021-07-14/2/
14 Jul 2021 -
I want to refer briefly to the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, which has
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Debate: Joint Committee On Enterprise, Trade And Employment
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_enterprise_trade_and_employment/2021-07-14/2/
14 Jul 2021 -
The Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, if it was enacted, could result in
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-06-24/23/
24 Jun 2020 -
The issue of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 has been raised a number...The Bill would not be implementable and is not part of the proposed programme for Government being voted
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-06-24/24/
24 Jun 2020 -
The issue of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 has been raised a number...The Bill would not be implementable and is not part of the proposed programme for Government being voted
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-11-28/28/
28 Nov 2018 -
Craughwell I congratulate Senator Black and her colleagues on bringing forward this Bill....As has been pointed out, it is not about two countries but rather an illegally occupied area....The bottom line is that Israel is in area where it should not be and products from any economic activity...Senator Black's Bill would not send shockwaves through the Israeli Government or its people but it might...While I do not intend to speak to the Bill again, I support it in its entirety.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/19/
23 Jan 2019 -
Deputy Mick Barry The Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill is to be considered...It is an important and modest Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-11-28/28/
28 Nov 2018 -
As Senator Ned O'Sullivan said, Fianna Fáil is supporting the Bill....On the section, we are talking about occupied territories, specifically occupied Palestine....I led a delegation from the Dáil and the Seanad to the occupied territories....it does not specifically mention the occupied areas of Palestine....It is a general Bill relating to areas that are occupied throughout the world.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-12-10/10/
10 Dec 2019 -
the Tánaiste instead reassured the Israeli Prime Minister that the Government will not support the Control...of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill that would make trade with illegal settlements a criminal...of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill and he has set his face against it....Will the Taoiseach reconsider his opposition to the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories...) Bill and, by so doing, join with others in this Dáil to uphold the rule of binding international law
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-05-20/35/
20 May 2021 -
Deputy Mick Barry Last week, I asked the Government to pass the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied...Territories) Bill 2018 and organise the boycott of goods produced in occupied Palestinian territories
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/24/
23 Jan 2019 -
territories....the right to exist of the Palestinian people and other oppressed peoples of an occupied land....The Bill has been designed to uphold international law and impose a modest economic penalty on anyone...who uses force and violence to steal and occupy another people's recognised territory....He stated that if the Bill was passed, Ireland would be found to be in breach of EU law.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/25/
23 Jan 2019 -
territories....the right to exist of the Palestinian people and other oppressed peoples of an occupied land....The Bill has been designed to uphold international law and impose a modest economic penalty on anyone...who uses force and violence to steal and occupy another people's recognised territory....He stated that if the Bill was passed, Ireland would be found to be in breach of EU law.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-06-12/12/
12 Jun 2019 -
Senator Michael McDowell The other Independent Senators and I have collectively discussed the Bill...The Bill will create an offence and empower the Minister to make regulations....Those two provisions are being relied on in respect of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories...) Bill 2018 as amounting to incidental expenditure for the purposes of allowing the Government to veto...view that the Government is wholly wrong in attempting to use the money message veto in respect of a Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/24/
23 Jan 2019 -
At its most basic, this Bill is about upholding international law and surely that is something that we...will be sending a very strong message to the international community that we condemn the occupation of territories...the Irish people to protest against the infringements of the rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied...territories....the Palestinian people who are living in dreadful conditions in the occupied territories.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/25/
23 Jan 2019 -
At its most basic, this Bill is about upholding international law and surely that is something that we...will be sending a very strong message to the international community that we condemn the occupation of territories...the Irish people to protest against the infringements of the rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied...territories....the Palestinian people who are living in dreadful conditions in the occupied territories.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/25/
23 Jan 2019 -
I am pleased to present to the House the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018...passed, Ireland and her Parliament will be sending a strong message, that it condemns the occupation of territories...unjustified restrictions on movement, and the sustained systematic expansion of settlements on Palestinian territories...2334 in December of 2014, which states, "[Israel's establishment] of settlements in the Palestinian territory...occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, ha[d] no legal validity and constitute[d] a flagrant
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-12-02/9/
2 Dec 2020 -
However, if the Government supported the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018...the Taoiseach to engage with both of these matters: the recognition of the state of Palestine and the occupied...territories Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-06-24/23/
24 Jun 2020 -
The Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, however, is different, given that
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-06-24/24/
24 Jun 2020 -
The Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, however, is different, given that
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-11-29/17/
29 Nov 2018 -
Deputy Pearse Doherty Last night the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018...The Bill is supported by all parties in the House except Fine Gael, which urgently needs to get on board
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2008-02-14/7/
14 Feb 2008 -
brokering controls beyond Irish citizens and companies....controls....He correctly pointed out that extra-territorial brokering controls should only be exercised outside the...European Union as each member state has a similar obligation to control brokering activities within...Were Ireland to provide for a capacity to control brokering activities in another EU member state, it
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Debate: Select Committee On Enterprise, Trade And Employment
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_enterprise_trade_and_employment/2007-12-19/2/
19 Dec 2007 -
Deputy John McGuinness Deputy Morgan's amendment proposes the creation of a new section to provide for controls...My Department already controls such activity by issuing export licences for technology transfer where...Second, I remind the committee that the scope of the Bill is to provide for control on exports....Finally, there are very real concerns with regard to the extra-territorial aspects of the amendment and...any attempt by Ireland to control the activities of a company based in a foreign jurisdiction.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/25/
23 Jan 2019 -
Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív I congratulate Senator Black on bringing this Bill forward and educating people...I congratulate my colleague, Deputy Niall Collins, on introducing the Bill in this House....One interesting point is this Bill deals with the occupied territories....Does anybody dispute these are occupied territories in Palestine and that Palestinian lands have been...occupied?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/24/
23 Jan 2019 -
Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív I congratulate Senator Black on bringing this Bill forward and educating people...I congratulate my colleague, Deputy Niall Collins, on introducing the Bill in this House....One interesting point is this Bill deals with the occupied territories....Does anybody dispute these are occupied territories in Palestine and that Palestinian lands have been...occupied?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-01-23/25/
23 Jan 2019 -
I asked him to do this in a letter dated 15 February 2018....was expected to be on the agenda of the next meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council on 26 February 2018...This Bill would send a message not only to Israel but to other states that illegally annex territory...and seek to benefit from the use and exploitation of such territory....I am happy to support the Bill and I hope the House passes it.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-11-28/8/
28 Nov 2018 -
Senator Jerry Buttimer The Order of Business is No. 1, Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018 - Committee...p.m. and adjourned at 1.30 p.m., if not previously concluded; No. 2, Judicial Appointments Commission Bill...and to be adjourned at 6 p.m., if not previously concluded; and No. 3, Private Members' business, the Control...of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 - Committee Stage, to be taken at 6 p.m. and to
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-07-28/32/
28 Jul 2020 -
On the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, we have had disputed legal affirmations...Has the new Attorney General given an updated legal argument on the Bill?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-07-21/10/
21 Jul 2020 -
The Taoiseach has also allowed Fine Gael to face down the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories...) Bill 2018, even though he and his colleagues in opposition supported those measures....the ongoing breach in international law by the occupation itself, he needs to act to ensure that the occupied...territories Bill becomes law and is placed on our Statute Book.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-07-28/41/
28 Jul 2020 -
legal advice the Government has, and the Deputy knows very well that is the position regarding the Control...of Economic Activities (Occupied Territories) Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2008-02-20/7/
20 Feb 2008 -
There was also a question on the extent to which the State can attempt to impose extra-territorial controls...He pointed out correctly that the extra-territorial brokering controls should only be exercised outside...the EU, as each member state had a similar obligation to control brokering activities within their jurisdictions...Were Ireland to have the capacity to control brokering activities in another EU member state, we might...For this reason, the Government tabled the amendment which excludes from Irish control brokering activities
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-06-17/2/
17 Jun 2020 -
Not including Senator Frances Black's Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 in...welcome the commitment to examine the introduction of a new ground of discrimination based on socio-economically
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-05-09/30/
9 May 2018 -
The Government is not opposing the Private Member's Bill sponsored by Deputies O’Callaghan, Jack Chambers...However, we are debating a Government general scheme of a gambling control Bill, published in 2013, which...last, approved my proposal to review, modernise and revise the 2013 general scheme of the gambling control...Bill....This group had its first meeting in February 2018.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-12-18/17/
18 Dec 2019 -
The Deputy probably knows my view on the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018...I understand why this Bill has emerged, but I do not believe it represents the right approach.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-11-03/16/
3 Nov 2021 -
apartheid Israel's actions, we must recognise the state of Palestine and also pass Senator Black's Control...of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018.
