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:

There are no new ones. We are participating in the mission in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, UNIFIL. We still have a number of personnel in the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, UNDOF, and we are also in the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, UNTSO, and we are in a number of EU- and NATO-led missions. Even in terms of the missions we are in, this is causing a challenge for us at the moment. Even today the UN Security Council is looking at the resolution for Operation Irini, which is an EU mission. There is a doubt about that going through, so what do we do with our people that are serving in that?