Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 June 2025

Committee on Defence and National Security

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

2:00 am

Photo of Sinéad GibneySinéad Gibney (Dublin Rathdown, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

That is fine. Building on some of the European Union features that have arisen here today and that Senator Higgins touched on, with the withdrawal from the Golan Heights to facilitate the participation in EU battlegroups it seems that we are focusing more on EU military missions. Meanwhile, some EU member states have recently left the cluster munitions treaty. Is there a potential for this Bill to allow Irish troops to serve in missions where cluster munitions may be used as long as - we have all heard this caveat - the Government of the day is satisfied with our participation?

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