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:

The consequences were we had no armed peacekeepers deployed overseas for approximately four years until we returned to Lebanon. Mr. Doyle was in the first battalion, the 43rd infantry battalion. That was a consequence of the withdrawal. Of course, those resources were required at that particular time in our history because there were significant challenges within the security environment of the State.