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)
I am going to finish, Chair, but could I ask for a written document, as that may be useful? I accept that the Central Bank may not give us the detail in relation to this process.
However, would it be possible to have something from the Central Bank that outlines in general what the due diligence process looks like in terms of these considerations of national and international law? That is not to effect disclosure in relation to how they have been applied to this particular request for the transfer of approval and so forth but about that process because we have a duty and an obligation under the law. Under the founding documents of the Central Bank, we have a rule and an oversight role, where there has to be accountability. A very minimal thing would be that the relevant Oireachtas joint committee would be able to have oversight of what the due diligence process being applied by the bank in general to the prospectus and the application of the prospectus-laying regulation looks like. Perhaps that is something we could have. I am happy to get that in writing, Chair. I know my time is expiring.
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