Central Bank of Ireland

844. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he was aware that Luxembourg informed the Irish Central Bank that it will not continue to approve the prospectus for Israeli war bonds. [59241/26]

140. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the financial regulator in Luxembourg the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) has confirmed to the Central Bank if they will take on again the role of assessing for approval the prospectus of Israeli war bonds this September. [50234/26]

141. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the role assessing for approval the prospectus of Israeli war bonds will default to the Central Bank if the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) declines to take on the role of assessing for approval the prospectus. [50235/26]

142. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance when confirmation will be provided on whether the CSSF will again take on the role of assessing for approval the prospectus of Israeli war bonds this September. [50236/26]

274. Deputy Edward Timmins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason the physical trading and custody of precious metals in Ireland remains outside the direct regulatory remit of the Central Bank despite an industry estimated to manage between €500 million and €1 billion in client assets [49436/26]

2. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that the Central Bank is acting in accordance with international law in relation to its role as the home state for the Israeli bond programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48495/26]

32. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that the Central Bank is acting in accordance with international law in relation to its role as the home state for the Israeli bond programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48194/26]

442. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 258 of 14 May 2026, the criteria necessary for a financial institution to qualify as a monetary policy counterparty with the Central Bank. [38996/26]

400. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the mechanisms currently being used by the Central Bank of Ireland to monitor compliance with the updated Consumer Protection Code mandating the release of property title deeds within 10 working days; the number of breach reports or consumer complaints recorded against retail credit institutions regarding title deed delays since…

257. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total payment from the Central Bank to the Irish Banking sector in the form of interest payments on reserves from 2011 to 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35964/26]

258. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total number and names of all banks that benefits from payments from the Central Bank in the form of interest payments on reserves in 2024. [35965/26]

248. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason the Central Bank's total spend on consultancy firms relating to IT has risen over tenfold since 2019 to €15,982,000 in 2025. [33307/26]

426. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether the Government or the Central Bank of Ireland is engaging with the European Payments Initiative regarding the development of a service (details supplied), or other EU wide instant account to account payment solutions; if Irish banks have indicated plans to participate in such schemes; and the steps being taken to ensure…

332. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to outline his Department's view of the Central Bank's substantially higher surplus projections; and how he can, in light of these projections, justify not reducing fuels to affordable levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29357/26]

967. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance for an update on the timelines and processes for appointment of the next Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland. [26309/26]

42. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total payment from the Central Bank to the Irish Banking sector in the form of interest payments on reserves for each of the last five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22738/26]

389. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether his evaluation ahead of the reappointment of the Governor of the Central Bank, included the Governor's testimony to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach (FINPERT) in October 2025 regarding the transfer of the Israeli bond prospectus to …

390. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether he has issued a directive to the Central Bank and its reappointed governor that its policies and pronouncements are aligned with the State’s stated recognition of genocide and its subsequent obligations under the Genocide Convention. [22164/26]

391. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he took into account the Governor of the Central Bank's oral testimony (June 2025) to Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach (FINPERT) where he claimed that the Genocide Convention applied to "the State" but not to the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI…

444. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his Department has engaged with the Central Bank of Ireland regarding the use by regulated financial service providers of facial image capture, facial recognition, or other facial biometric processing technologies for customer onboarding, authentication, fraud prevention, or identity verification purposes; and if he will make a…

445. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether the Central Bank of Ireland has issued, or is preparing to issue, supervisory guidance for regulated financial service providers regarding the use of facial biometric processing technologies, including requirements relating to lawful processing bases, consumer transparency, data minimisation, storage limitation, security s…

446. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether regulated financial service providers operating in the State are required, as a matter of supervisory expectation or consumer protection regulation, to provide customers with a reasonable non-biometric alternative where facial image capture or facial biometric verification is used for onboarding, authentication, fraud prev…

447. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether his Department or the Central Bank of Ireland maintains information on the number of regulated financial service providers using facial image capture or facial biometric processing technologies for identity verification, customer onboarding, authentication, or fraud prevention; if so, the number of such firms and the gener…

448. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether his Department has considered whether the Consumer Protection Code or other financial regulatory frameworks should be updated to provide explicit standards governing the use of facial image capture and facial biometric technologies by regulated financial service providers, including standards concerning transparency to cus…

449. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether his Department or the Central Bank of Ireland holds data on operational incidents, data protection incidents, or consumer complaints reported by regulated financial service providers relating to the use of facial image capture or facial biometric processing technologies since 1 January 2023; if so, the number of such incid…