Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)

Exactly. We were asking the Minister how much money ISIF had in war bonds, how much money it was putting on the table and how much money was being invested in the bombs and bullets that were slaughtering children right before our eyes. Children who were queueing up for water were being slaughtered and this State invested money in it. You cannot wash your hands of this. You are the bloody Minister for Finance and an organisation that falls under the remit of your Department is investing in genocide. There are no ifs, buts or maybes. The NTMA had to produce its annual report. It knew it was going to be called out by us and others who are rightly appalled that our taxpayer money was going to fund the genocide in Palestine. It scampered around and sold because it needed a media line in the face of genocide, to control the narrative, but for all of last year, right up until the last number of days, I bet, it still held these investments.

It is sickening and the fact the Minister did nothing about it, despite it being repeatedly put to him here in the Dáil, is disgraceful.

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