Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)
2:00 am
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
What the Taoiseach has just told us is his Department had security advice not to fly into Dubai on the way home, so the flights were booked through Toronto at a cost to the taxpayer. There were media travelling with the Taoiseach and it appears his office never shared the security advice with members of the Irish media. Can he explain why? If there was security advice that there was a risk in him flying through Dubai, why would he not share that with other Irish citizens who were accompanying him on the trip?
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