Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We all look forward to seeing the draft list of risks, which the Taoiseach said will be published in the coming weeks. I refer specifically to the enormous risks to Ireland and elsewhere posed by Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, which the Taoiseach has referred to. It poses an enormous humanitarian risk to so many people displaced by war as well as posing many economic, strategic and security risks. I am asking specifically about the risk to national security associated with the continued presence in Ireland of so many officials operating under diplomatic cover in the Russian embassy, Orwell Road. I am conscious the Government has already moved to expel some of them. I and others have called upon the Taoiseach to expel the Russian ambassador and indeed the other officials in light of the continuing brutality of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. I renew that request. Will the national risk register identify the real risk to national security associated with having so many officials in the Russian embassy, Orwell Road in Dublin?

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