Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I presumed naively the Minister of State would state Ireland would not partake in this initiative and would not encourage it and that he would endorse what the European Union had been originally established for. He has said that, with the architect, he supports €100 million being spent on research and development in the coming year or two. It is planned to spend up to €3.5 billion on research and the development of military equipment. The architect of this initiative is a special adviser to Commissioner Juncker. He was the person who came up with the idea in 2013. Will the Minister of State agree that Ireland will desist from encouraging any such multibillion euro expenditure package for military research and innovation and that instead the money, in line wih the European Union was supposed to do, should be spent to enhance poverty eradication?

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