Shane Moynihan (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Like other colleagues, I welcome the adoption of the ministerial committee on national security. I am particularly keen that this would be up and running and meeting as soon as possible given the current debate about tariffs and trade wars demonstrates Ireland's strategic location from an economic point of view but now, also being on the western side of the European Union, very much from a military point of view, notwithstanding the prevalence of subsea cables and other vital infrastructure around our coasts.

My question relates to the whole-of-government approach that I hope the ministerial security committee will take. The establishment brief for the ministerial committee refers to energy security and economic resilience. It would be good to learn from the Taoiseach about how exactly it will be seen as a whole-of-government approach in terms of involvement of Departments that have responsibility for economic functions, such as the Department with responsibility for energy, for example, and so on because those pieces are key to the economic security and energy resilience at the core of maintaining our national security. It would be good to get an indication from the Taoiseach about how other Departments are feeding into that.

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