Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 May 2025

Committee on Defence and National Security

General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Bernie Maguire:

It is the nature of the requests coming in. It is not the traditional infantry type of contribution that we made in the past to UN peacekeeping forces. Those types of requests may be made again in the future, but what we are seeing now is more of the crisis management type of situations, like what happened in Kabul.

Again, with the EU and the battlegroups, there might be a crisis in a particular country where they could be deployed. They are the types of things that happen because it is a different security dynamic in play at present.

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