Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Shay Brennan (Dublin Rathdown, Fianna Fail)
I appreciate Dr. Nuseibah is not an Irish politician and he appreciates I am not an international legal expert, which is why I am asking him questions. He might look at this situation through a purely legal lens but I am looking at the realpolitik of the situation. Hence, my next question. How much value do the witnesses place on Ireland's role within the EU relating to advocacy to fellow member states on Palestine's behalf? Does the panel agree that building on that advocacy within the EU is the most appropriate way for Ireland to proceed? Do they see any specific unilateral actions, such as those being put forward here on behalf of the Central Bank, that might be taken by Ireland as jeopardising our influence within the EU at this particularly critical time?
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