Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources
3:15 pm
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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Cuirim fáilte roimh an Commissioner go dtí an coiste. The Commissioner made a number of comments to Deputy Paul Murphy about the direction of military spend and defence. He said that if Europe did not increase that type of spending, it would be in a dangerous position. What percentage of the budget is currently spent on that and, in his view, what increase is required to avoid what he terms a dangerous position?