Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent)
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I have confirmation, although I understand I am not allowed to name individual companies, that one of the companies which is benefitting from the scheme is indeed exporting tank shells to Israel. That is from reports in Der Spiegel. We know that we are effectively routing an estimated €12 million of Irish money and claiming that it is an industrial measure, while explicitly kind of floating the purposes of who we think these weapons should be used on. That is in itself problematic, but we are simply pouring money into companies which are pouring out weapons. That is effectively it. When Ms Filipkova says an industrial support measure, she is intrinsically saying that there is no caveat in terms of who they sell to.

Can I ask the Commission whether there been consideration of national law and the implications for nation law? Did Ireland's neutrality and the implications for Irish neutrality come up in the course of the process of considering the potential implications of this new measure?