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
Mr. Jannik Knauer:
Let me briefly respond to that question. The Acting Chair raised very important points. The checks foreseen under the SAFE regulation pertain to the conditions as laid out under the regulation. It is about how the money is spent, where it is spent, the thresholds and so on, as I tried to explain earlier.
On the question as to where the weapons might end up, go or be re-exported, that is not part of the SAFE regulation. The SAFE regulation is solely a mechanism that will provide member states with the financial leeway, with loans, to be able to procure.
The question of exports is not dealt with under the SAFE. That is for other formats.
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