Eoin Hayes received shares as an employee of software firm Palantir from which he says he divested ‘before I entered politics’
Soc Dems TD refuses to state exactly when he sold shares in US firm that supplies Israel i militaryGovernment formation talks between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil to officially beginin June. He declined to state exactly when he divested of the share or how much his shareholding was worth.
Mr Hayes said he divested the shares entirely “as soon as Palantir made very vocal support” for the IDF.Social Democrats TD Eoin Hayes for Dublin Bay South with deputy leader Cian O’Callaghan and fellow TD Gary Gannon . Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times “There are tens of thousands of people in this country that work for multinationals that don’t agree necessarily with their bosses all the time,” he replied.
“I’ve been fully transparent and on top of that I’ve been fully supportive of the party’s position on Gaza and on Israel and on the Occupied Territories Bill,” he said.
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