Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 June 2025

Committee on Defence and National Security

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

2:00 am

Mr. Joe Noonan:

At the risk of saying things again, which I do not want to do, we have drifted very close to the NATO orbit that now we are seen as troublemakers if we do not go along with whatever Kallas or von der Leyen want, and that is dangerous. That is a drift that has happened.