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
Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Is it not a possibility, however, that someone could decide to take that kind of challenge based on the moneys being raised being used in an ongoing war where atrocities are occurring, including many children being killed? By the way, I have been to Gaza, so I know what it is like. I was there when 1,400 people had been killed, 400 of them children. The sad part of it was no action was taken by the international community at that time. We might not have the problem we have now if it had been. The point I am making to Mr. Makhlouf, however, concerns someone deciding to challenge the right of the Central Bank because when it was established under Irish law by the Oireachtas - and I accept what Mr. Makhlouf said about it also being under EU regulation - it was never intended it should have a role in the approval of prospectuses where someone can raise money to carry on a war and atrocities.
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