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Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: We are not talking about that. We are talking about specific legislation here.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: Ms Ní Bhriain is making a huge leap there. We are talking about one specific thing and there are an awful lot of shoulds, woulds and coulds being mentioned.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: I used the term "friends".

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: Just to be very clear, we are not. We are very clear in our position on Gaza and we are alone in Europe on that.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: Yes, but we get to decide that, not somebody else.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: That is what I am saying. In our position on Gaza, we have made that decision. With the triple lock, we are allowing other people to make that decision for us. It is quite a significant difference. We are trying to take back our independence here and trying to decide what we want to do as a country and where we want to position ourselves. At the moment, we are hamstrung by this triple lock.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: Mr. Kelly agrees then that just because something is approved by the UN currently, we do not have to participate.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: Thus, all this is really doing is ensuring we have that flexibility in every decision we make.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Prices (2 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 11. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how his Department is working to address the rising costs faced by householders on district heating systems. [36392/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Infrastructure (2 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 12. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is a list of the number of district heating systems across Dublin. [36393/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Litter Pollution (2 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 16. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department would consider the creation of a dedicated app to highlight the locations of public bins across Dublin to reduce littering. [36436/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: National Security (2 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 19. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to report on his Department’s work in conjunction with the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration on the establishment of a national security authority. [36394/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: National Security (2 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 20. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to report on his Department’s work in conjunction with the Department of the Taoiseach, on the development of the national security analysis centre’s national security strategy statement. [36396/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 21. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of times the Defence Forces has engaged in static guard and cash escorts for the Central Bank in each of the past four years. [36397/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (2 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 22. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to report on the work of the Joint Task Force on Drug Interdiction. [36398/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 23. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces continues to provide security on campus at any prisons across Ireland. [36399/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 24. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the planned withdrawal of tasking the Defence Forces from the provision of static security at a premises (details supplied). [36400/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (2 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the two core bus corridors scheduled for construction under BusConnects in quarter 3 or 4 of 2025 are proceeding as planned. [36416/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: EU Regulations (2 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 29. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to report on the work of his Department in the development of a national position on the revision of EU Regulation U261/2004. [36418/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (2 Jul 2025)

Maeve O'Connell: 30. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to report on the work of his Department in reviewing the National Aviation Policy 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36419/25]