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Subject: Urgent Call from [Your Constituency]: Joint Motion passed calling on Government to urgently enact the Occupied Territories Bill - banning trade in goods AND services
Dear Deputy,
I am writing to you as a constituent of [Name of Constituency] in light of the joint opposition Private Members’ Motion, passed on Wednesday 19 November, regarding the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 to ask you to ensure that its commitments are implemented in full.
This legislation must apply to both goods and services originating in illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and must be enacted before the end of the year.
This legislation is essential to ensure that our trade practices align with international law and uphold the principles of human rights and justice. We have waited long enough: the time for action is now.
Almost one year ago, during the 2024 General Election campaign, all parties committed to passing the Occupied Territories Bill (now the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025) if elected and in Government. It has been almost four months since the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade completed its pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill. In its report, the Committee unanimously called for the Bill to be strengthened to include services and for it to be progressed as a matter of urgency, in line with the July 2024 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice. On 19 November 2025, Dáil Éireann passed a joint Opposition motion calling on the Government to urgently present this Bill, ensure that it includes a ban on both goods and services from illegal settlements, and enact it before the end of the year.
For more than seventy-five years the people of Palestine have been attacked, driven from their homes and land, killed with impunity and denied their basic right to equality. We cannot, legally or morally, continue to trade with 750,000 illegal Israeli settlers or their enterprises as they enrich themselves and Israel, while at the same time they impoverish and dispossess millions of Palestinians in their own land.
Israel cannot continue to act with impunity. It is up to the international community to take steps to apply and to strengthen international law. When others will not act, Ireland must. This means enacting a strong Bill, to which Government parties have committed and which the Joint Oireachtas Committee has recommended. We must see a strong Bill passed in full, this year, and it must include services.
At a time when the people of Palestine need solidarity more than ever, I urge you, as your constituent, to take every possible measure to ensure the Bill’s passage through Dáil Éireann, building on the motion passed on Wednesday 19 November by pressing the Government to bring forward and enact a version of the Bill that includes a ban on both goods and services before the end of the year.
Yours sincerely,
[Your name]
[Your address]
