Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals
2:00 am
Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent)
It related to SAFE, specifically the €150 billion. We know which countries are drawing it down; the question is where it gets spent. Some 60% of that will be within the EU. Will it be within particular countries? How is that balance determined? Much of it has been framed as industry support. That would be useful supplementary information.
My time is up and my colleagues have returned, so I will pass over to them. I see Mr. McGann has been indicating. I will, if there is an opportunity, come back later on cluster munitions legislation, as well as coming back to Ms Ralph on the concern around Hungary drawing down from the €150 million loan.
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