Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation
2:00 am
Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
Is there no consideration given to war and genocide? I appreciate it is not an endorsement but the Israeli Government was quite clear that these funds are being used in part to massacre people in Gaza. Is there no consideration given to that? Is no one saying this is a bad idea because these funds are being used in an appalling way and humans are being massacred? Does that and should that not enter the equation at all given that this is public money? ISIF is not a private investment firm; it uses money that belongs to the public. The vast majority of the Irish public do not want money used in this way.
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