Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Committee on Defence and National Security

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

2:00 am

Photo of Tom ClonanTom Clonan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am just saying that because to invoke it as a reason to dispense with the triple lock is actually a red herring. I did not hear all of the contributions because, unfortunately, I had a constituent who was in crisis. I did catch the end of some remarks where there was a suggestion that the upper limit of 12 would have an impact on the number of people we could put in an aircraft or the number of air crew that could be deployed to assist Irish people. That is simply not the case and we have to be very careful as a committee that we are factually correct.

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