Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Gerry Cross:
No, the third country is Israel, which is issuing. If it was just issuing above €1,000, it could choose any country in Europe to be its home member state. However, Israel is issuing denominations below €1,000, small numbers. Therefore, what the prospectus regulation says is the home member state is the one where it first makes a public offer of those bonds. That was originally the UK. Brexit occurred. Under European Securities and Markets Authority guidelines, effectively it came to us because Israel said it was issuing in Ireland now and it moved its home member state to Ireland. As the prospectus regulation is worded, and the ESMA Q&A supports this, that can never change. It has happened. Ireland became the home member state. That is the case. What the prospectus regulation also says with regard to the competent authority, however, is that the approval of the prospectus for any given year can be transferred. This is subject to what I was describing earlier. When it is transferred, the competent authority to whom it is transferred, in this case Luxembourg, CSSF, becomes the home member state for that prospectus.
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