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

Photo of Duncan SmithDuncan Smith (Dublin Fingal East, Labour)
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Some of those vessels would not be in too much of a hurry to get the oil into places because there would be a lot of intelligence out there. I have engaged with a couple of private intelligence agencies that state that the Russian shadow fleet would idle, for want of a better word, over undersea cables or in the vicinity of undersea cables for extended periods. Is that accurate?