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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

...to the committee, when I focused on opportunities for Ireland to address its own security and defence capabilities gaps. Today, I would like to speak on three main points: the challenges facing Ukraine in responding to Russia’s ongoing aggression and the implications for European security and defence; new initiatives at an EU level to further co-ordinate defence production,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

...Union questions Ireland's traditional policy of military neutrality. There is an issue coming down the road, however, and that is what Ireland will do if what Russia is attempting to do in Ukraine is successful. What will Ireland do if that success is translated to Lithuania, Estonia or Latvia, for example? We should bear in mind that the language Putin has used to justify his invasion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...issue and realise we are a major communications hub. I accept that no matter what we do, there will always be a need for co-operation, whatever that may look like. What do the witnesses believe Ukraine would need in order to win? The point was made that the aid provided by the West has given the Ukraine sufficient capacity to stay in the game but not to win. It is trying to win...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Professor Ben Tonra: The Deputy's question on how much is enough in regard to support for Ukraine is very well taken. A fascinating dance can be seen going on between some prime ministers who say they want Ukraine to win and others who say they will be alongside Ukraine for as long as it takes. There is an interesting psychology going on there. The Deputy's point about nuclear blackmail...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

...-technological point of view but I agree with Professor Tonra that it is about shifting the cost calculation. What Russia is testing at the moment is what level of cost is it going to inflict on Ukraine to achieve its objectives and how much is it willing to bear. At the moment, it is showing surprising resilience. Many people were not expecting Russia to do quite so well, particularly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

...in relation to those costs. Very quickly on Ireland then, a false paradise zone is a nice way of putting it. Deputy Howlin is right that we are not going to determine the outcome of the conflict in Ukraine and we are not going to determine the future of European security and defence but we should take some steps to determine our own security and defence. These initiatives, though they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

..., but it is an inevitable development in the context in which we find ourselves and Ireland needs to situate itself within that. Yes, Ireland does not have military capacity that it can provide to Ukraine, but we do have 12 javelin missiles. We do have the ammunition that Ukraine requires. Although it would not make any kind of significant contribution, the psychology of Ireland saying...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Seán Haughey: ...Committees for Union Affairs of Parliaments of the European Union, COSAC, meetings. There has been a very definite shift in emphasis towards security and defence issues. There is no doubt that Ukraine has changed everything. I fully accept that. It is important that we support Ukraine for as long as it takes. I will opt for that option. I did not realise there was a difference...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: ...number of weapons, helicopters, aircraft and ammunition. Within Europe we have a mishmash, as was rightly pointed out. Different countries have different priorities. Will that limit the capacity to support Ukraine where, for example, the same rifle ammunition cannot be got? Someone might be using 7.62 mm and I might be using 5.5 mm or 3.03 mm or whatever. Will that be a problem for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

...questions. In terms of the tail, interoperability is not the issue. NATO has set the standards across Europe and those are the standards all NATO states work to. Those are the standards to which Ukraine works to and indeed the standard Ireland operates to through NATO's Partnership for Peace, so that is not an issue any longer. Therefore, of all of the Irish ammunition, what we could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

...that is perceived externally as well and to think seriously about what the EU would do if faced with opposition to these developments. One of the issues that is playing out in regard to the war in Ukraine was a failure by the EU to think through the consequences of what Russia meant when it said way back in 2013 that if Ukraine signs an association agreement, there will not be any...