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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Dr. Kenneth McDonagh: I thank the Cathaoirleach, Deputies and Senators for the invitation to speak to the committee on the subject of EU security and defence. It is a little over 12 months since I last spoke to the committee, when I focused on opportunities for Ireland to address its own security and defence capabilities gaps. Today, I would like to speak on three main points: the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Dr. Kenneth McDonagh: I have always told them that from Ireland, everything is eastern and that is how I get away with that. The Deputy is right in that the eastern member states very much see the transatlantic alliance as the core and foundation of their security, largely because they can count and can see what the capabilities are and what would be lost were the US to be outside of that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Professor Ben Tonra: I will take the one on the consultative forum first. I was a bit disappointed, frankly, with the consultative forum. It did a fine job of work in terms of raising public attention, raising public awareness and having those big public meetings. The report stated a lot of things that we knew were already there and in place. The forum, in raising the question about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Professor Ben Tonra: I will take the top and tail of those questions. In terms of the tail, interoperability is not the issue. NATO has set the standards across Europe and those are the standards all NATO states work to. Those are the standards to which Ukraine works to and indeed the standard Ireland operates to through NATO's Partnership for Peace, so that is not an issue any longer....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Recent Developments in the EU on Security and Defence: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Dr. Kenneth McDonagh: How will I follow that? Maybe to pick up on the point of neutrality, Professor Tonra has summarised it quite well. It is not a definition of neutrality we need. The question I always ask and we need to ask is what neutrality does in the context of the political debate. It is something that has moved in an Irish context into the realm of an identity and a value...