Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 July 2025

Committee on Defence and National Security

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

2:00 am

Mr. Stephen Kelly:

PANA has never opposed the existence of the Defence Forces. We acknowledge there is a necessity to have a relatively small army as a kind of first line of defence, but we have to maintain a sense of proportion. It is never going to be capable of inflicting an outright defeat on a major power. North Korea is the only small country in the world that could do that.

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