Gardaí e funzionari della sicurezza nazionale rifiutano l’invito di Oireachtas a discutere di sicurezza nazionale
https://www.thejournal.ie/joint-committee-defence-and-national-security-civil-service-no-turn-up-6890962-Dec2025/
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>It is understood that in their correspondence, Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly, DOD Secretary General Jacqui McCrum and Department of Taoiseach John Callinan wrote that **asking state security agencies questions about the broader topic of national security was outside the committee’s remit.**
The name of this committee?
>Committee on Defence and National Security
[https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/committees/34/defence-national-security/](https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/committees/34/defence-national-security/)
Make funding contingent on participation.
They are not above the law, their power is derived from the government which is in turn derived from the people.
Shut down all funding until they start cooperating.
The electorate voted against empowering committees like this in the 2011 referendum. Ye get what ye vote for!
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I assume the discussion at this committee would be published and publicly available?
I’m ok with them not attending in that case. Some things are secret for a reason.
the Guards, frankly, often seem to think that they are above the law. which you can’t actually blame them for, given the state of some of our elected representatives.
This is most likely due to Ireland’s lack of a formal security clearance system.
The Gardai have close relationships with European security services who at times provide them with sensitive intelligence pertaining to national security.
Discussing these matters at committee with a bunch of unvetted civil servants would compromise this relationship and make our partners seriously hesitant to share more info in the future.
Don’t think the lads in Mi5 or the DGSE would take ‘ah sure be grand’ as a valid excuse.
As much as I think the Gardaí have a bit of a head-up-their-own-arses problem, it sounds like the committee really didn’t have the remit(?) to be asking some of the questions. That said, surely a cybersecurity committee should have a wider field to ask questions in? Feels like there’d be a fair bit of crossover between cybersecurity and broader security that would need flexibility there.
The insurrection is nigh
Fairly self-explanatory in the article.
TDs who are not members of the government are part of commitee whose remit “encompasses cyber-defence, sub-sea critical infrastructure and related hybrid threats”, where they fall within the Dept of Defence’s jurisdiction.
These TDs, who are not vetted for any kind of security clearance, decided they wanted to ask questions about “the upcoming EU Presidency, including the security preparations for the event, …. broader questions about national security, including their concerns about its current state, as well as specific issues with security clearances and the use of Shannon Airport by US aircraft.”
And they invited Gardaí and a specialist under the Dept of Taoiseach, all of whom rightly refused the request to attend.
Pretty much a non-story here. Tbh, I’m more concerned that this committee attempted to engage in such a massive overreach of their remit to gain access to sensitive and dangerous information on national security. Who are these members, and what is their reasoning for wanting access to this information?
And why are the media portraying them as the “victims” in this?