Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to come in on the excellent point Deputy Barry made. We are seeing a massive increase in military spending in the EU. Between 2004 and 2006, €65 million was spent and now we are looking at billions of euro. We have also agreed to the permanent structured co-operation, PESCO, which sees an increase in our military spending so I agree with Deputy Barry. It would definitely be a strong pushback from this committee and State to show we are a neutral state and that we want to remain so if we sought this derogation.