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 is the finance committee, however. I ask again that we are furnished with this. The issue here is very clear. These are significant loans for some of these countries. If there is a country which, through absolutely no fault of its own, is unable to pay back these loans because it is in an economic crisis from, perhaps, war in that country, this finance committee will be looking at this in years to come wondering what impact this is going to have on the EU budget and what impact that is going to have on the spending within Ireland and, indeed, how much money we are going to give, and the knock-on impact. For that not to be very clear for us, when looking at it from a finance committee's perspective, is deeply worrying.
I do not know if this something the officials have looked into or are aware of what it might be. I will let one of them come in.
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