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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Mr. O'Brien said we have reputational damage from it. Is there any sense in which taking a moral stance and standing out in this way would give us a reputational advantage? Is there any way it is good for Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Are any of those quarters which the businesses would be connected to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Mr. O'Brien has said there are real and material concerns. Is this anecdotal? There are the classic discussions we hear after a budget in the local pub, and all sorts of exaggerated opinions. Is this anecdotal with regard to what people are saying? How sure is Mr. O'Brien that there is a soundness to his concerns? Is it people blowing off a bit of steam?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: With the biggest being America?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Mr. O'Brien said the anti-boycotting laws in the individual states in America will present a problem with related Irish firms. Will Mr. O'Brien explain the working out of this and how it would work in practice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Is Mr. O'Brien suggesting they would be in trouble domestically in the United States for being linked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome our guests. Despite the ginormous figures we deal with these days, the loss of €5 million of taxpayers’ money is very serious, as the witnesses accept, when there are so many socially reforming things it could achieve that would matter to people. The NTMA said in its opening statement that this was not an IT issue, so it was obviously a governance issue. Without...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: We are not identifying names.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: There should be some way that an individual would have to go to a second person.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: That is reassuring. Mr. O'Connor is assuring the taxpayers, through this meeting, that there will be new governance structures, with new checks and balances.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Even in a very small business, a system of checks and balances is needed. There cannot be the one person. That would make it subject to human error.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Moving on to the good news, that being, the 70% debt-to-GNI* ratio. In simple terms for those watching and listening, will Mr. O’Connor quantify what this means for taxpayers in terms of prospective reduced interest and potential investment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: What is the general accepted ratio? Is 65% the ideal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: We should be seeing declining interest rates.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: It really is a good news story.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I will move on to housing. The NTMA invests in housing through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund. Does the NTMA have a policy input? There are not radically good outcomes in housing at the moment. Will Mr. O’Connor comment? Is the NTMA investing in a good strategic ways, is that done at the agency's discretion or could it improve on that? How does the NTMA break between...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Is ISIF getting optimum results or could it be better?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Is the big constraint capacity or infrastructure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: The big ones.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Hopefully, they are in the control of the Government.