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 Neale RichmondNeale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)

What the Taoiseach has said and the Tánaiste on this matter was that Ireland is prepared to consider any request but there has not been that level of detail-forming discussion. The talks at the moment are ongoing. I am not in the talks. We are just get read-outs from talks. They are grey. It is hard to describe them because they are not those formal negotiations. There are two sets of negotiations happening with two sets of parties. We are depending on information. What we have said quite clearly is that we want to part of the coalition of the willing, particularly with the rebuilding of Ukraine. We have already started that process. I attended the rebuilding Ukraine conference in Rome at the start of last summer where we pledged ongoing commitments of up to approximately €34 million. That is for building things like schools, underground schools and providing those sorts of services. We have a number of Irish commercial partners that are tendering for work to rebuild Ukraine as well. Regardless of what happens with our triple lock - that is a matter for the Dáil as the Deputy knows-----

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