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
Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
This does not fill me with confidence. From our engagements on this issue, the reasoning for the increase in military spending is based on the fear that there could be a war in some of these countries or an invasion in some of these countries. Surely, that would impact on their economy. How much, in terms of the EU budget, is being set aside on a yearly basis at present for what in Mr. de la Brosse's view is the unlikely scenario that these countries cannot pay back their loans? I am sure this is being done. How much per year is being set aside?
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