Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Committee on Defence and National Security

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

2:00 am

Mr. Colm Doyle:

I can say it certainly in my case because I was chief of staff in New York for two and a half years. It never arose. There was never any mention. I do not know definitively, but I have no recollection of it ever being used before by any other nation.