Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland

1:30 pm

Mr. Gabriel Makhlouf:

I am not sure I do because, at the time we made the decision, I do not know if they were promoting things as war bonds. In addition, our role is to a certain extent circumscribed partly by what the law says, by the facts in front of us and what the expectations of us are as the national competent authority working within the European Union and within its framework.