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
Sinéad 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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