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
Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent)
Does Mr. Makhlouf not agree that the Central Bank has the capacity, under paragraph 88, to consider international law and to bring those criteria into play in the performance of the bank’s function? That is what the bank’s guidance is. It is very clear that it does not say the Central Bank is tied to the connectivity question solely. It says it is at the absolute discretion-----
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