Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach

Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland

2:00 am

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Okay. I would strongly push back. I have gone through this in detail with the witnesses before and there is enough scope, in my view, for the Central Bank, if it is willing, to deal with this issue. This is a point in time about which people will ask which side we were on. Words mean nothing as the bombs are raining down on men, women and children. It is time for action. We will query this in more detail in terms of the Genocide Convention. What Mr. Makhlouf is saying is quite shocking. Is he aware how many millions in war bonds the State has through ISIF? Is he aware of the number? On 1 January, I think it had a couple of million euro of these war bonds. Does Mr. Makhlouf know if that has increased or decreased?

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