Ms Mary-Elizabeth McMunn:

I will read the reply because of the accuracy in terms of the notes about the Genocide Convention which we provided in our response to the committee. The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide is an international treaty under which the contracting partners confirm that genocide is a crime under international law and undertake to prevent and punish it. Ireland, as we mentioned earlier, is a contracting party to the convention, having ceded to it in 1976. The convention was originally given its effect in Irish law by the Genocide Act 1976, which was repealed and replaced by the International Criminal Court Act 2006. In accordance with the 2006 Act, it is an offence for any person to commit genocide, or a crime ancillary to genocide, aiding, abetting, assisting, inciting, etc. With respect to the above, it falls outside the competency of the Central Bank to make a determination of genocide under the convention and the ICJ, which we referred to earlier, has not yet made a judgment in relation to genocide. As we know, the South African case being taken against the State of Israel is ongoing.