Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion
2:00 am
Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
It is interesting because often when we have discussions on this, there is talk about financial risk. We have had ISIF representatives before this committee in relation to investing in, say, companies that are in occupied territories and things like that. Fundamentally, it always comes back to what the financial risk is. It always comes down to the question of whether the debt will be repaid because that is the way the market works. It is focused on financial risk. However, in the case under discussion, it seems there is a financial risk for countries like ours in signing up. Even considering our views on everything else, there seems to be a financial risk to this.
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