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Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: There might not even be a sense of wanting to use this in situations where we are being blocked and, since the legislation allows, deployment not simply in situations where a UN veto is an issue but in any situation without concern about whether or not a UN mandate is sought.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: This might be answered in writing afterwards but, on Senator Kyne's other point regarding the UN General Assembly, the 2006 Act is quite widely worded in how it allows Ireland to act in response to a UN General Assembly resolution. It uses about seven adjectives. It mentions forces supported or encouraged by the assembly. We are out of time but I would be interested in a response in...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We are allowed to act on General Assembly resolutions, however.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Or an informal coalition.

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am thankful for the support and engagement I have received as a member of the foreign affairs committee. One of the key issues we had was the potential overreach in the context of maximum harmonisation, such as if a ceiling were to be set. We have heard about that issue. I will go back to what the then Minister of State responsible, Deputy Calleary, said about the CSDD and CSR...

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will get my answers. As I understand it, the committee can also make a political contribution directly to the Commission. Separate to the Council negotiations, there is capacity for parliamentary input.

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I was lucky to take part in the Future of Europe process over the past few years, which included 800 citizens from across Europe and a number of parliamentarians. One thing that was interesting was the issue of ethical supply chains and business, which came across from all of kinds of groups, including the business group, the environment group and the social group. The message that the...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: I wish to refer to what Deputy Cian O'Callaghan brought forward. The preamble of the prospectus regulation clearly states: "This Regulation respects the fundamental rights and observes the principles recognised in particular by the Charter of Fundamental Rights". The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union includes the line "the indivisible, universal values of human dignity,...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: So the Central Bank has not looked to that preamble in terms of its interpretation?

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: Article 6, the one you said you were focusing, includes as one of the factors for consideration the reasons for the issuance. This is one of the factors the Central Bank is obliged to consider. It states the regulation should be interpreted and applied in accordance with these rights and principles. When considering the reasons for the issuance in relation to the Central Bank and the...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have very limited time and understand what is being pointed to.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: In looking at the general financing of the State of Israel at this time, and at the time when the bonds are being sought, was much consideration given to the principles of democracy and the rule of law? It states the regulation should be interpreted and applied in respect of those rights and principles.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will come back to completeness and comprehensibility myself.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Central Bank can set the schedule. It has the power to set the schedule in respect of a review. It does not necessarily have to wait.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am saying this in the context that some issues have been highlighted over the past year where it seemed there may have been grounds for considering a review. The Central Bank also has the power to require supplementary information if it feels the information provided is incomplete. We have repeatedly heard the words “comprehensible" "consistent" and "complete”. There are...

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

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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)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The competent authority has the power to request information. Has the Central Bank requested supplementary information from Israel as the issuer?

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: Let us move to the prospectus issued last year. In the core prospectus, I found one reference to the war. It related to unemployment figures in terms of those absent as a result of military duty and during the war for other reasons. That is the 2024 prospectus. There was a supplementary report, which is not the prospectus. It is this quality prospectus we are meant to be hearing about....

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: The core question, because my time is quite limited-----