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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: Our witnesses are very welcome. I am conscious that Dr. Nuseibah needs to leave the meeting at 5 p.m., so time is of the essence. I am happy to limit my questions on the basis that my colleagues wish to put questions to him before he leaves. I thank him for being here today. I also thank him for the intellectual and legal clarity he has brought to the debate. We did not need moral or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: That is a nonsense, in my view. The point about the primacy or otherwise of the preamble, paragraph 88, is important because little weight or consideration has been given to that. My own view is that there is an obligation on the Central Bank to do that but it has not. Rather, it selectively quoted its technical responsibilities, if I can put it like that, and its requirement, as it sees...

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: The Labour Party will amend the Bill on Committee Stage. I can assure the House that we will not amend it on the basis that we want to see what is a modest charge on properties abolished. It is extraordinary that every time we debate the principle of the property tax in this House there are parties who purport to be on the left in Irish politics which say they oppose it. They oppose it for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: Captured by civil servants-----

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 323. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount owed in underpayments in terms of the pensions of public servants in respect of the NSSO pension issue review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32320/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 324. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount owed by the State to public service pensioners arising from the NSSO pension issue review; the sums of money and the numbers involved in the form of bands and at intervals of €5,000; when these monies will be able to be recouped by those affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32321/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the report of AHB Strategic Forum has been finalised; if has considered its contents; if he will publish the report and its recommendations; if he will outline the proposed next steps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31955/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 740. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the recruitment of qualified radiographers from third-level institutions in the State who have graduated in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31799/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 774. To ask the Minister for Health if she will give an update on waiting times for under-18s for Orthodontist services in Drogheda and Dundalk and if there are plans in place to reduce waiting times for these services in these areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31935/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: 861. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the issues Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients are having getting timey access to a new drug for the condition (details supplied); if immediate steps will be taken to make this drug available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32396/25]

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: I will be sharing time with my colleague Deputy Lawlor. We are in an incredible situation in this country and in the Middle East at present. For the first time, two weeks ago, in response to a Labour Party motion and a Sinn Féin Bill two weeks ago on Israeli bonds, a significant statement was made by senior Government representatives in this House. Finally, a senior Government figure...

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

Gerald Nash: In the interests of the expeditious processing of the meeting and our business, I am happy to comply with that. The currently approved prospectus will expire in September. Deputy Brennan raised some questions about the process. While I would have liked to explore them in some more detail, I will limit my questions and observations. Typically, it seems it takes a number of weeks for 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)

Gerald Nash: Okay. To the best of the Governor's recollection, how long did it take the Central Bank to process the application for the first prospectus from Israel?

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

Gerald Nash: From initial contact to the approval.

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

Gerald Nash: Is a prospectus required to be renewed and refreshed annually?

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

Gerald Nash: Okay. There may be some expectation that the Israeli state may be in contact over the next few weeks with the prospect of the prospectus potentially being renewed. Does the Governor wish to put on the record of the committee this afternoon the kinds of questions and issues the Central Bank is likely to raise with the Israeli state in the event it requests the renewal of 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)

Gerald Nash: What does the Governor think those new developments 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)

Gerald Nash: That is a significant statement. The Governor has put on the public record the kinds of questions we expect the Central Bank to ask of the Israeli state if it requests the renewal of the prospectus. I am glad he raised the prospect of the potential viability of the financial system and the public finances of the Israeli state in respect of the genocide that is happening at the moment and...

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

Gerald Nash: I say this as somebody who respects the work of the Central Bank and the reforms and the improvements that have been introduced to governance in recent years. Mr. Makhlouf is painting a picture of a prospectus regulatory regime in Europe that we have been obliged to adopt here that is narrow and arguably amoral, to put it mildly, which is Jesuitical in the way that it is interpreted and...

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

Gerald Nash: Would Mr. Makhlouf agree, given the challenges we have now, that the regulatory regime speaks to another time, if I can put it like that? Does he think it is fit for purpose now?