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
Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
I need to know how exactly things work because I am always the one in the debate who doubts myself. I may think the other person is wrong but I am the one who does not push it so I need to fully understand things. The problem here is that they can and they could, so it is not necessarily a done deal for this year. It could be but it might not be, and it is also not dealing with the crux of the issue, which is that huge numbers of people do not want us to be a home member state for Israel.
I have another question. It has been mentioned that the Central Bank received €38,950 from Israel from January 2020 to September 2025. Is there going to be any payment for services to the Central Bank this year if it simply remains in Luxembourg, or are there still fees?
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