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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: But we do not know. The point is, technically. None of us can predict what could be done by any country or any place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: It is more that I want to understand fully the technical aspect of this. It was something that was continuously confused in the debate, I nearly think, within the media. I really want to understand this fully. I do have very strong views on it but I want to understand the technicalities of it fully. Does that mean that in terms of this year, is there no contact with Israel at all needed,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: One of the big topics we discussed the last time you were here was our ability to end this relationship. I understand from the line of questioning that Senator Higgins will be touching on our report and that kind of thing, so there might be other questions coming out of that. You said something to the effect that there is no way of changing that home member state. Let us ignore Israel...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I just find it hard to believe that if a country is literally committing genocide, how that does not have an implication, even if it is in the horrific aspect of a financial risk kind of thing, not in terms of the actual genocide. I find that hard to believe. What I might ask on that - this is something I have been wondering - is what I think I understand it to be. If, for example, there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: In relation to the prospectus regulations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Surely to God if Russia came to Ireland and tried to become a home member state, that would not work, under the prospectus regulations. Could it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: So if there were EU sanctions-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: -----that would change the whole thing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: If there were not EU sanctions but there were national sanctions - using Russia for this example, although Israel is the actual question we are talking about - would it be the case that if we refused, no other EU country could be the home state?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Okay, that is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: If they issue a new type of bond, however-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I am trying to understand this as much as possible because I find it hard to argue in debates unless I have the exact figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: I need to know how exactly things work because I am always the one in the debate who doubts myself. I may think the other person is wrong but I am the one who does not push it so I need to fully understand things. The problem here is that they can and they could, so it is not necessarily a done deal for this year. It could be but it might not be, and it is also not dealing with the crux of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Please come back with the information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Please double-check because this issue is very important. I wanted to mainly get as much factual information as possible. I must say that I find the way it turned out incredibly disappointing. I had hoped when I saw the news that it meant that we, as a State, had stood up to this. I really did. It is incredibly disappointing that that is not the case. I strongly feel that surely there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Could we have one person at a time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: Then we will do the second round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: And then it will be the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: We might let people in for a second round. I have to pop out at 5 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: -----under €1,000, then it could.