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Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: This is the fourth year in a row in which we are debating emergency measures and talking about one-off payments. At what stage is it no longer an emergency and a one-off payment? The fact it is being referred to in this way is indicative of a Government that has far too much money with no vision, ideas or real solutions to these problems which face so many people. If the Government had...

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Thomas Gould: We in Sinn Féin recognise that ordinary people are really struggling with the cost-of-living crisis and the failure of this Government to properly tackle it. We have the highest energy bills in Europe, including high gas bills. People are really struggling. That is why we believe the €250 the Government is offering does not go far enough. We believe that at least €450...

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Gerald Nash: I am pleased to speak on this Bill for the Labour Party. The State will have spent, I think, close to or in excess of €2 billion in energy credit payments since the onset of the energy crisis. We know only too well that this is by definition an untargeted measure. It is universal in nature and has been explained away as a once-off emergency measure to help people through a temporary...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of the Joint Committee (9 Oct 2024)

John McGuinness: At our private meeting this morning we adopted the minutes of our meeting of 25 September 2024.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

John McGuinness: Today we engage with the Central Bank. I remind members of the note on privilege. Members are covered by privilege if they are on the campus of Leinster House. If not, they may only have limited privilege. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the House or an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Makhlouf very much. I call Deputy Tóibín.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

John McGuinness: We are running out of time if the Deputy wishes to ask another question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

John McGuinness: Deputy, you are out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

John McGuinness: I am chairing the meeting, not you. If you have a question, please ask it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

John McGuinness: Deputy Tóibín was first with 19 minutes. Deputy Boyd Barrett had 20 minutes. That is to make sure members understand I am a fair Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

John McGuinness: Deputy Conway-Walsh has switched her time with Deputy Doherty. I call Deputy Doherty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: To stay on that theme, the Central Bank has now divested from all companies that operate in the occupied territories. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. Four of those were Israeli banks, were they?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Will the witnesses outline the Central Bank's rationale for that decision? It was not forced to take it. It was not a legislative issue. I welcome the decision, obviously.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome that and thank Mr. Madouros for acknowledging that the questioning in this committee, including my own, has led to this. This is a positive outcome and the Central Bank needs to be acknowledged in relation to that. It is to be hoped the NTMA will follow suit and divest from the rest of its holdings in companies involved in the occupied territories. However, it leads me to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I understand this prospectus does not say that, but does Mr. Makhlouf accept that Israel itself is marketing these as war bonds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: If Mr. Makhlouf or any of his colleagues opens their mobile phone and goes to israelbonds.com, the front page is very clear about supporting the war effort by buying Israeli bonds.