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. Kieran Brennan:
There was no UN Security restrictions. Very briefly, as DCOS, I was not terribly happy about that. We eventually morphed into Operation Sophia, which gave it a more legalistic framework to operate in that environment, although the humanitarian part of the mission was taken out of it.