Bill has already gained majority support in the Seanad and Dáil
The OTB is a modest and patently peaceful legislative proposal. It penalises occupier goods from invaded lands. Once enacted here it is likely to be taken up by many other countries, which are not constrained by strategic or commercial links. People in powerful countries can have similar human empathy but be overridden by state interest. Ireland is free to make such initiatives for peace, as it did against South African apartheid in the 1980s.
The Bill has already gained majority support in the Seanad and Dáil. It had reached seven of the 10 stages for enactment when the 2020 election intervened. A large majority of the Dáil deputies were elected with a party or personal commitment to the OTB. Its sad omission from the current Programme for Government can now be rectified.
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