Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Part 3, the section on military controls, states that the Bill seeks to set high common standards for the management of and restraint in the transfer of military technology and equipment. Key to that, the general scheme tells us that this is “to prevent the export of military technology and equipment which might be used for internal repression or international aggression or contribute to regional instability”. This is a very lofty and noble aspiration. I am curious to know how that would be achieved. Can Dr. Cahill give the committee some examples of the type of internal repression, international aggression and regional instability that he is referring to? Would Dr. Cahill consider and count the Israeli repression of the Palestinian people as an internal repression or as international aggression? I thank the Chairman.