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

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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I will return to the fact that there are no audits but the aims of this programme is to stimulate the production of munitions. Explosives have got €124 million of a budget, powder has a projected portfolio of €248 million and shells has €90 million. Is not the answer to the question that the Irish taxpayers are funding the production of munitions in Europe not clear as the nose on my face?