Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Makhlouf, however, accepts that when the Central Bank was initially set up by the State it was never with the intention of having a role where someone could use it as a mechanism for getting access to money to carry on the atrocities now occurring. I accept what Mr. Makhlouf is saying about the money going to the Israeli Government in the sense of managing its economy, but a substantial part of the moneys it is raising, whether through taxation or borrowing, is being used to carry out horrendous atrocities in a state sitting defenceless and has no real support in terms of trying to defend its ordinary citizens.