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
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
Legislation has been prepared that, unfortunately, has not gone further because certain people voted against it, obviously. There was a majority and that is democracy. A very compelling argument has been made regarding the Central Bank so I will focus on that. The Central Bank states that it does not fall under the Genocide Convention. Is that a legal position? Can the Central Bank say that it is removed from the Genocide Convention or does the responsibility fall on the State? It has been made very clear that the responsibility falls on the State and all its organs, but is there a responsibility on the Central Bank itself? Do the witnesses dispute what the governor said?
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