Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Yes, but we would not be an outlier. The problem here is with the NTMA and the Government. If I were Minister of Finance, I would sit down with Mr. Ashmore and Ms Meghen to tell them to stop using taxpayers' money to go into illegal settlements and tell me what needs to be done and the consequences of doing that. I would tell them we need to stop this because what is happening in Gaza is a genocide, what is happening in the West Bank and the occupied territories is just not acceptable and we should not be funding or bankrolling it or letting any taxpayers' money near it. If the NTMA had that direction, I know it would divest. Would it not? If the NTMA got the ministerial direction, it would divest.
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