The Central Bank cannot say whether it has been asked to approve prospectuses for the sale of Israeli bonds, it will tell an Oireachtas committee. The use of Ireland as the issuing country for the prospectuses of Israeli bonds — which are largely being used to fund the country's war on Gaza — attracted protests in the last year, but the State of Israel bond issuance programme said it has now been approved for fundraising in the EU by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. [...]