Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland
1:30 pm
Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source
Is there a proper examination of human rights, international law and geopolitical risks in answering the request - and it is a request - for Ireland through the Central Bank to facilitate the sale of Israeli state bonds? Was the information examined? Was it appropriately examined? These are clear powers. If the information fell short, was further information sought? If not, why was further information not sought at that time? Now we go to the powers under paragraph 40 of the regulation, which determines that if we have the situation where the prospectus does not mention these are war bonds-----
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