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 Alice-Mary HigginsAlice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Let us move to the prospectus issued last year. In the core prospectus, I found one reference to the war. It related to unemployment figures in terms of those absent as a result of military duty and during the war for other reasons. That is the 2024 prospectus. There was a supplementary report, which is not the prospectus. It is this quality prospectus we are meant to be hearing about. I do not know whether that counts as part of the prospectus. Is that what the Central Bank is considering? In that report, I saw a single line which stated that South Africa brought a case against Israel in the International Court of Justice. It does not reference what the case is. It does not reference that the case is under the Genocide Convention. It does not include, as far as I can see, any reference at all to the International Court of Justice opinion from July 2024, which is not in respect of the Genocide Convention but in relation to the fact that member states are under an obligation to take steps to prevent trade or investment relations that assist in the maintenance of the illegal situation created by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory. Is that not supplementary information that should have been in the prospectus or, at minimum, in the annual report?

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