In recent Oireachtas debates on the Occupied Territories Bill, it has usually been framed in the context of the Opposition parties putting pressure on the Government to go further and faster with its proposed legislation. The Bill should include a ban on services as well as goods, the Opposition argues, and the Dáil and Seanad should sit in August to get the legislation passed into law as quickly as possible. Yesterday it was very different. That is because delegates from the Ireland Israel Alliance were before the Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, along with some representatives of Ireland's...