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- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: I thank our guests for coming before the committee and for their papers and opening statements. My first question is for Dr. Burke. Will he briefly explain his definition of the difference between peacekeeping and peace enforcement? I ask him to be brief because we have a short time and I do not want to be abrupt with him.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: And what about peace enforcement?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: Does it involve military engagement and conflict?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: In other words, the guns would be pulled.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: The guns would be loaded and drawn.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: They are very different things.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: Peace enforcement and peacekeeping.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: I am familiar with it. I thank Dr. Burke. In his opening statement Dr. Burke said our democracy, critical infrastructure, energy pipelines, fibre-optic cables and cyberspace are vulnerable to attack. I understand the Government has ordered a new radar system and the Navy will be beefed up, which I welcome and support. I see the need to protect them. I am trying to match this with why we...
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: It looks like some of the western powers have attacked underseas infrastructure, such as the northern gas pipeline.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: The one just after the Ukraine war started - shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: No. As I understand it, the speculation is more towards some western involvement in that.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: I will turn to Mr. Power. In his statement, he quoted Taoiseach Seán Lemass back in the sixties telling the Dáil, when dealing with the Defence (Amendment) Act 1960, the following: The purpose of the present measure may be simple. Its purpose is to authorise ... for duties of a police character on behalf of the United Nations and, secondly, to provide in respect of ... members...
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: If we join the regional force and are part of something outside of the United Nations, a young person joining the Irish Army would, as a result of how things may evolve, have to go to Ukraine or somewhere in the Middle East, for example, if detailed? They would have to go.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: That is as per the rules of the Army at the moment.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: I get that.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: I will return to the proposed Bill for a moment. It provides for peacekeeping, conflict prevention and strengthening international security. As I understand it, I hear what Donald Trump says and the Russians would say they are strengthening their international security by what they are doing wrongly in Ukraine. Israel would say it is strengthening security by blasting the middle out of...
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: This could turn into anything. As a layperson-----
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: It is pretty messy, as Mr. Power said.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: It can get very messy, as Mr. Power said. I will ask Mr. Power about one issue I am curious about. If you were deployed as part of an international force, you would be under some kind of a joint command. Let us say Ireland and a coalition of the willing made up of some group of countries or other got involved in a mission. It could be commanded by a NATO commander or a German commander....
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: We have been commanded by a NATO commander, have we?