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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: So if there were EU sanctions-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: -----that would change the whole thing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: If there were not EU sanctions but there were national sanctions - using Russia for this example, although Israel is the actual question we are talking about - would it be the case that if we refused, no other EU country could be the home state?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Okay, that is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: If they issue a new type of bond, however-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I am trying to understand this as much as possible because I find it hard to argue in debates unless I have the exact figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I need to know how exactly things work because I am always the one in the debate who doubts myself. I may think the other person is wrong but I am the one who does not push it so I need to fully understand things. The problem here is that they can and they could, so it is not necessarily a done deal for this year. It could be but it might not be, and it is also not dealing with the crux of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Please come back with the information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Please double-check because this issue is very important. I wanted to mainly get as much factual information as possible. I must say that I find the way it turned out incredibly disappointing. I had hoped when I saw the news that it meant that we, as a State, had stood up to this. I really did. It is incredibly disappointing that that is not the case. I strongly feel that surely there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Could we have one person at a time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Then we will do the second round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: And then it will be the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We might let people in for a second round. I have to pop out at 5 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: -----under €1,000, then it could.

Finance Bill 2025: Second Stage (21 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: There was shock across the State when the news broke on budget day that there was going to be no tax breaks for workers. I was in disbelief. I had assumed that, given a €2.5 billion tax package, there would surely be something in the budget for ordinary workers, who we all know are at the pin of their collars trying to make ends meet. The fact they were not mentioned and not heard...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: There are institutional barriers that affect women leaving domestic violence that we can and should change. One of those is the fact that women on the council waiting list in one county who move back to their home county due to domestic violence have to reopen a new application in the new county. Therefore, they are not eligible for emergency accommodation, cannot get homeless...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Could the Taoiseach look at that?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: The Government cannot stick to its promises.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fishing Communities (21 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 207. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the recreational fisheries which will be subject to fishing authorisations and catch declarations in the future as per Article 55.4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1224/2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57334/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2026 (21 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: 312. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the exclusion of cinemas from the recent hospitality VAT reduction from 13.5% to 9%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57220/25]