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

Mr. Barry Andrews:

Of course I did not say that. I merely made the point that Latvia has had to choose between a range of options, including potentially cutting its social welfare. I do not know how Ms Boylan managed to extract from that, that I am proposing cutting social welfare in Ireland when we have a very healthy surplus and there are many other options for reaching level of ambition 2.