Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 November 2025

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Supplementary)

2:00 am

Photo of Duncan SmithDuncan Smith (Dublin Fingal East, Labour)

I commend the work of the Passport Office, in particular over the last couple of years. I think the new systems are working really well. If we take the agricultural estimates of what is going through TDs' offices, it has gone down a good bit on a couple of years ago. It is great to see.

In relation to the assistance for Ukraine, the Danish have a model where they are investing in funding the purchase and manufacture of lethal warfare materials in Ukraine. Are we doing a similar thing but for non-lethal equipment? Is it a similar model but for non-lethal? If so, do we have cast-iron assurances that the money we are giving is for non-lethal military hardware?

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