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

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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I welcome what Mr. Makhlouf has said and I would not expect him to say anything else bar to take what I have said in a serious way, which he has acknowledged, and to go back and look at this and look at what is in the regulation and whether there is a way not to have Ireland as a home country selling these war bonds. I have made my point strongly and often in relation to this. I argue that it is the sentiment of the Irish people and the sentiment of the Central Bank as well. I will leave it at that.

In the time remaining to me, I will raise two other issues, the first of which relates to consumer protection. I need clarity on this. Mr. Makhlouf mentioned that the deputy governor, Derville Rowland, will still have consumer protection functions as a core area. The deputy governor's area is consumer and investor protection. Is that title changing?