Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am looking at the change. It now will be 2030 before we hopefully reach what we promised the UN in 1970. It will take 60 years to reach the target that has been changed on I do not know how many occasions and we see so much money going into defence. I have other words for that. Mr. Burgess probably cannot comment because it is policy. The Department is doing great work, albeit with some questions around various issues that have been dealt with. We are struggling to come up to that percentage of 0.7% of GDP yet we have any amount of money for defence projects. We will hear from the President of the European Commission later today.