Ms Niamh Ní Bhriain:

At a bare minimum Ireland should not be participating in this fund and all of the other military structures like PESCO, for example. I saw the other day that there are Irish entities receiving funding through the European Defence Fund. Ireland is a neutral country. We are best placed in the world to use our voice for peace. If we go down the road of aligning ourselves with militaries in the European Union, which is what we are doing by participating in the European battle groups, we are aligning ourselves with an entity that is backing a genocide in Gaza and has taken no steps whatsoever to restrain Israel.