Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 October 2025
Committee on Defence and National Security
National Maritime Security Strategy: Department of Defence
2:00 am
Maeve O'Connell (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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That is great. I have one final question, if that is okay. Coming back to unmanned aircraft vehicles, drones, there is a framework strategy being developed at the moment for commercial drones. Are the witnesses or any of their team inputting into that? Obviously, what we allow commercial drones to do will impact how we would operate any defensive strategy around drones or should be part of our overall defence approach as to how much activity we allow in the commercial area.