Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Scrutiny of EU Proposals

Photo of Alice-Mary HigginsAlice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am not reassured. Perhaps Ms Filipkova might talk about the Council. She mentioned that the European Peace Facility is off-budget precisely because it has military or defence implications and yet she is suggesting that these measures, in terms of manufactured weapons, do not have military or defence implications, or somehow can be dealt with separately. In relation to the Council decision, am I right that that was a qualified majority vote?

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