The Government is said to be increasingly unlikely to include trade in services in the scope of the Occupied Territories Bill, which is intended to ban trade in goods with companies operating from the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel.
Speaking in the Dáil on Tuesday, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said, “the feedback I’m getting, it’s not just implementable”.
Speaking afterwards, senior sources confirmed this is the Taoiseach’s view – that including services would not be practically possible – though the official Dáil record contains a slightly different version of what Mr Martin told
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