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)
We had the Conflict and Environment Observatory before us previously to discuss the environmental aspects of this. They spoke about the climate impacts of rearming Europe. They said that the climate impact of rearming Europe, taken together with NATO spending increases, will create up to $264 billion of climate damage per year. It seems to be counterintuitive to have environmental spending and military spending coming from the same funds.
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