Sinead O'Carroll
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Sep
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Brexit element as well, because Europe are trying to make us all work together and the UK now being outside of the European Union is changing that dynamic with whether it's the RAF in helping out or another member another EU state member.
There's kind of two sides to the money, like Olivia said as well.
There's we're plugging the austerity gaps, like the the the money that wasn't spent on really practical, pragmatic things like keeping the personnel numbers up, keeping the ships in the seas, being able to invest sensibly in minding our security cables and um different cybersecurity measures.
That's very different, though, to the numbers that we're hearing from EU spending on defence industry.
So I think there are two very different
different things to the Irish public.
When you look at EU spending going from
You know, it's there it's increased seventy five percent since twenty twenty one.
That is very pragmatic given what's happening on the eastern side, but for Ireland that doesn't necessarily mean it should translate into warships and that kind of money.
Right.
So
I think one of the reasons with the
I think one of the reasons it's really unpopular is that a lot of the nuance that we're talking about here isn't how Europe Europe is talking about it.
Europe is talking about funding the industry, it's equipment, it's m being able to mobilize armies, which is very different to cyber security, intelligence and the things that we're talking about here.
If you look at what NATO wants Europe to do
three point five percent increase in def uh up to three point five percent of GDP, but that doesn't include cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity is another one point five percent of GDP on top of that they want.
So some of the things that
I think Irish the Irish public are looking at it and when we have discussions around neutrality and we have discussions around the triple lock, they're saying, But you want to up our spending to one percent of GDP or two percent?
We probably should be using G and I instead of GTP.
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