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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: That is fine. Let us get to the risk. There are loads of bonds; we do not have an issue with them being approved through the Central Bank. I want Mr. Cross to please answer the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Financial is the main risk. I take that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Is the fact that there is a statable case with regard to a breach of the Genocide Convention included in the prospectus?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The prospectus is quite long. I do not want Mr. Cross to go through it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Is that included?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. On that basis, is it the case that Mr. Cross believes the risks are dealt with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. The Central Bank is an organ of the State but is obviously independent. Does it subscribe to the Genocide Convention or is it separate to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Forgetting about the prospectus for a minute-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Genocide Convention apply to the Central Bank or not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: As Ireland is a signatory since before I was born, does the Genocide Convention apply to the Central Bank or not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Does it apply to the Central Bank?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: It does not apply to the Central Bank, so the Central Bank can ignore the fact that Ireland is a signatory.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Okay, but there are rules here sometimes and then there are other sets of rules and you have to be cognisant of all of them. The Governor is making the point that even though the State is a signatory to the Genocide Convention, the Central Bank does not have to comply with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: In regard to the provisions related to the prevention of genocide, the Central Bank does not feel it has any obligation to that matter because therefore it would have to examine the prospectus regulation and the Genocide Convention and how they are conflicting and would have to make a call, if the Genocide Convention applied to the Central Bank, which Mr. Makhlouf is saying does not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: How much money, if any, has the Central Bank received for the facilitation of the sale of Israeli war bonds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Central Bank not facilitate them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We talked about the prospectus which the Central Bank approved. What does the prospectus law state? What is that law about? It is facilitation to the European market. Is that not the word?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Is that the word that is in the law? It is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: It is the facilitation to European markets.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Central Bank of Ireland (11 Jun 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The prospectus regulation is about facilitating access to the European market, is it not?