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 Edward TimminsEdward Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In fairness, the witness has answered that. I am conscious of the clock and I have two or three more questions. I want to probe what options there are and where we can explore. The Central Bank advised that the International Court of Justice advisory opinion of 19 July 2024, which found that the State of Israel's continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful, is not in itself grounds on which the Israeli bond programme could be refused. That is a very clear statement the Central Bank made last year. Is there anything that could be changed to allow that unlawful presence, as it is generally accepted to be, to become grounds for the Central Bank to refuse? What would have to change to allow the Central Bank to use the decision by the International Court of Justice to facilitate its refusing?

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