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.