Ciarán Ahern (Dublin South West, Labour)

I move amendment No. 11:

In page 10, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “(4) For the purposes of this section, the fact that an activity is for protecting—

(a) the security of the State, or

(b) the economic well-being of the State,

does not of itself constitute it an activity for the sole purpose of the defence of the State.”.

This is where we are talking about not having well-defined criteria for what the defence of the State means. We are trying to put some structure around that. We sometimes talk about LNG terminals or things like that as being in defence of the State. We do not necessarily agree that it would be. It is just trying to put some parameters around the definition of what it means to protect the security of the State.