Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform

2:30 pm

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)
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If we do not have agreement on what is happening, we will go into the figures. Does the Minister agree, when all the strands are taken in, that the Commission's proposals in total represent close to a doubling of defence spending? According to the Commission's figures, it represents an increase of 1.8 times.