The Restricted Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025 was introduced in the Dáil yesterday by Sinn Féin’s finance spokesperson, Pearse Doherty.

“The bill will give the minister for finance the explicit power to intervene to stop Israel using Ireland to raise money in Europe — money that pays for the bombs and the tanks and the weapons being used to slaughter children,” he said.

“We have the ability to end the sale of Israeli war bonds across the European Union. We should never have had any involvement in this but we now have the power to pull the plug.”

The private members’ bill is set to be debated at second stage next week.

Mr Doherty told the Dáil: “I urge the government to drop the nonsense of denying that this is happening and to work with us.

“This legislation is ready to go. It was drafted not by us but by the Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers. It is compatible with the Constitution and EU and international law.

“We need to pass this legislation without delay, we need to give effect to the will of the Irish people and we need to ensure that Ireland is in no way complicit in funding genocide, which is what is happening under our very eyes.”