Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 July 2025

Committee on Defence and National Security

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

2:00 am

Photo of Diarmuid WilsonDiarmuid Wilson (Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

We have to deal with reality here. In an ideal world, everybody would get on with everybody and there would be no war. We spend trillions of dollars as a world looking up into the sky to see if there is anybody else out there but we cannot get on with ourselves. I really appreciate the witnesses' presentations but in other words, they are saying we should not have a front door or a back door on our house because nobody is going to come near us.