National Treasury Management Agency
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-09
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Pearse Doherty (SF), Donegal

This issue has been raised for many years. We have a new finance Minister. I would like a bit of straight talking from this finance Minister about his position. We are all appalled by the genocide that we have seen before our eyes with 70,000 people slaughtered. Deputy Carthy talked about one company. When accusations were put to the CEO of that company that his equipment was involved in the killing of Palestinians in Gaza, he said that is true. The UN human rights report stated that the company had provided defence infrastructure, military software and AI that allows automated decision-making, so it is using AI to automate the slaughter of Palestinians. Sometimes there is not much we can do about that. We can raise our voice, have sanctions and so on but one thing we can do is not invest in the company that is proudly associated with the IDF and the genocide in Palestine. That is what we need to do. Deputy Harris is a new Minister. I want him to state clearly to the House whether he believes that taxpayers' money should be invested in companies like that. There are many companies across the world that our money could be invested in. The NTMA does a good job but surely to God the Tánaiste can make a statement here that any other decent Irish person would have no problem with. Do not invest in companies that are involved in supporting genocide.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-09