Ms Lynn Boylan:

Absolutely. That was the point of ASAP and the SAFE regulation. President Metsola has already complained that the SAFE regulation did not go through European Parliament scrutiny and the Bundestag has criticised it. Equally, the finance and public expenditure committee under the last Government also criticised that ASAP was designed to bypass and not comply with the treaties. Effectively, expenditure for defence and military purposes required unanimity at Council and that rule was bypassed. Therefore, it is not complying with its own treaties.