Departmental Meetings
Dail Éireann — 2024-03-21
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Mick Barry (PBP), Cork North-Central

We are talking about the arms industry here and an emerging Irish arms industry. It seems to me that this is quite a shadowy organisation. It is unlike any other representative organisation that I know of. It does not say who its affiliates are. We are told there are 15 Irish-based SMEs, two research organisations and two multinational corporations. We are told that Mr. Pat O'Connor is the chair, Ms Caitríona Heinl is head of policy and Ben Tonra, the UCD professor, is involved as well. We are not told who all the other affiliates, organisations and individuals are or who attended this meeting, other than the one person the Tánaiste mentioned. Why is there so much secrecy around this group?

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Sitting date: 2024-03-21