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- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Maybe start with the last one but there is a very short time to answer this.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: The Senator is out of time. Can Mr. Kelly just address the questions the Senator has raised as quickly as he can, please?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I call Deputy Brabazon.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. Thank you Deputy. I call Deputy Stanley.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Ms Ní Bhriain. If she could let us have the document, we will do our best to include in the report.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I think that sufficiently answers that question. Does he have another question?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Do you trust the Irish people? Perhaps we should go to a referendum. It is subjective.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: We will leave that.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I am going to finish it at that. On behalf of the committee, I thank the witnesses for their time and also for the material they circulated in advance of the meeting. We will now suspend for a short break.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: The joint committee is continuing its pre-legislative scrutiny of the defence (amendment) Bill 2025. I welcome on behalf of the committee Mr. Barry Andrews, MEP, and Ms Lynn Boylan, MEP. The witnesses are here to discuss the general scheme of the Bill and I thank them for joining us in person. Their contribution to our scrutiny is very much appreciated. The format of the meeting is that...
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I invite Ms Boylan to make her opening statement.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: It is very important to have the EU perspective during the scrutiny of this Bill and recognising the large mandate both witnesses have. The committee invited an EU representative from each of the parties and groupings, so we appreciate the attendance of the witnesses. Each member will have seven minutes and we should use our time within the seven minutes for both questions and answers....
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Andrews for clarifying that.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Deputy, your time is up.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay, go on.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay, I will move on to Deputy Brabazon.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: As we are waiting for the Senators to come back, I will use this opportunity to ask a couple of questions. During previous sessions, safeguarding has been mentioned in regard to the Oireachtas. This committee being a safeguard has been discussed. In terms of scrutiny, that is absolutely the case but there are constraints and it is important to point out that we are time-limited, even...
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I as Chair would stand over the fact that there are constraints around the scrutiny we can carry out. All members here, whatever their opinion, would agree that there are constraints, notwithstanding that we make the work of the committee as good as we possibly can, as in this case. We are trying to carry out the very best, fair scrutiny and most transparent scrutiny that the constraints on...
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: The Senator is out of time.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)
Rose Conway-Walsh: The Senator is very fortunate that she is the first Senator back in. We will go back to the members of the committee now. I call Senator Craughwell.