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
Duncan 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?