Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 May 2024

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

Scrutiny of EU Proposals

Photo of Alice-Mary HigginsAlice-Mary Higgins (Independent)
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That seems to be something of an oversight when we are looking at the situation. The then Taoiseach was very clear that Ireland would only be providing non-lethal support for military action in Ukraine. It should be pointed out that it seems that this funding is going directly to industry. This is not the same as when individual countries may have chosen to transfer arms and so forth. Ireland was very explicit that we would provide non-lethal support. Explosives, shells and missiles are clearly lethal.