Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 May 2025

Committee on Defence and National Security

General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Bernie Maguire:

I do not believe our neutrality is impacted. As we discussed earlier, we are not going to become a member of an international organisation that we are not already a member of. That is already in our legislation and we are bringing it forward to consolidate it in this legislation. The Government has reiterated repeatedly that we are not changing our policy of military neutrality, which is non-aligned, it is non-military alliance.