Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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105. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he intends to allow the Oireachtas Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee to scrutinise proposed participation in further PESCO missions and European Defence Agency projects. [28127/24]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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On the 11th June, the Government approved Ireland’s participation in two Permanent Structured Cooperation projects - (1) The Network of Logistic Hubs in Europe and Support to Operations project and (2) The Critical Seabed Infrastructure Protection project; and in two European Defence Agency projects - (1) Defence Energy Managers Course II and (2) Cyber Defence Exercises.

In line with the Programme for Government and the Defence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence has now sought the approval of Dáil Éireann.

On 25th June the Dáil motion was referred to the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. This motion, and the report regarding service by the Defence Forces with the UN in 2023, was before the Committee earlier today, (2nd July) with a further debate to be taken in the Dáil tomorrow, Wednesday, 3rd July.