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 Mairéad FarrellMairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We will resume in public session. I will start with something that was in the news recently, namely the shots fired towards or in the vicinity of Irish soldiers in Lebanon by Israel. The Tánaiste said "It's clear to me that the actions of the IDF were reckless, intimidatory, totally unacceptable and a clear breach of the international rules surrounding peacekeeping.” We know from reporting in The Ditch that the Israeli bonds president and CEO Dani Naveh told potential investors that the best way to support the war campaign was investing in these stocks. Does Mr. Makhlouf think that the fact that we have had a situation where Israeli forces have shot at, towards or whatever the terminology is or should be, Irish soldiers change anything in his position on this issue? I am aware I am short on time.

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