Sinn Féin TD Mark Ward put forward the proposition last month for a friendly between the football teams of Ireland and Palestine.
We had an email, there was a difficulty in doing that at national team level and that has been accepted, in relation to the very strict international windows that are in place.
The conversation has now moved to whether there could be something hosted in relation to a League of Ireland team and conversations are ongoing, there is no decision and no date, the League of Ireland department are taking a look at the logistics of that.
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20 October 2023; Bohemians supporters before the SSE Airtricity Men's Premier Division match between Bohemians and St Patrick's Athletic at Dalymount Park in Dublin. Photo by Seb Daly/Sportsfile
The matter of Israel competing in international competition was also raised at the Committee, with the Ireland U17 Women's team due to face them in a Euro qualifier in Albania on Friday.
Despite Israel's indiscriminate bombing of Gaza in recent months, FAI president Paul Cooke explained that the association had to abide by the rules laid out by UEFA.
"We have been consistent, UEFA are allowing games against Israel, we are a member of UEFA, we abide by their rules," Cooke said.
"We abide by our governing body's rules. On a personal and human level we are appalled by what is happening, we don't condone it but are an affiliate of UEFA. It's a matter for UEFA."
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