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
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
No, that has not offended me at all. I will come to the issue of Article 41.2 at a later point in relation to how the treaty completely bans the use of European funds to procure arms. What we are talking about is increasing the capabilities and in my view, that is a way around. Ultimately, about half a billion euro will flow to companies to increase their capabilities in specific areas that are identified, namely, missiles, munitions and other types of armaments of war, and the Irish taxpayer contributes to that. Is that not a fact?
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