Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals
2:00 am
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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To clarify, Ms Dinka is saying that Irish taxpayers' money is going in to fund the militarisation of the European Union. Am I not right in saying that ASAP has a €500 million budget and some of that is to buy munitions? This is not just research and development, it is weapons is it not? The name of the programme refers to ammunition production. Are Irish taxpayers funding the development of munitions in Europe through the ASAP budget?