Ms Niamh N? Bhriain:

There is a fact sheet online. I do not have the name of the relevant companies but I can forward those to the committee. If I did, I would not be able to mention them anyway. There is fact sheet online that shows which companies are receiving funding through the Act in Support of Ammunition Production, ASAP. It would be a question of going through each of those companies and checking whether they may be involved. There are enormous questions around public money. Research we did in the Transnational Institute two years ago found five companies that were in receipt of European Union funding, the €600 million I mentioned, and were also involved in the production or upkeep of nuclear weapons. European public money is being channelled into companies involved in the production, maintenance or upkeep of nuclear weaponry. We are taking this into a dangerous sphere. The public do not know about this, and that is why this committee is so important. The public in Europe do not know about this so we need to bring forward that knowledge.