Ms Helen Mahony:

The key issue is that Ireland should not be funding Israeli bonds. It should not be enabling them to be sold. That is the moral and the legal issue for Ireland. As to whether another country would take it up, that is like saying if I do not kill somebody, someone else will kill that person. It is a faulty argument. Ireland has a responsibility to end the sale of bonds. It is possible that, if we end our facilitation of the sale of Israeli bonds on the grounds that to continue doing it is against international law and the Genocide Convention, it would be virtually impossible for another country within the EU to take it up. The key thing for Ireland is we cannot remain complicit in genocide and supporting illegal situations. Ireland has to end the sale of Israeli bonds under the authority of the Central Bank.