An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2023-06-27
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

I commend the peace and anti-war protestors who have challenged the shocking bias of the Government’s so-called forum on security matters, which is heavily stacked with people who are pro NATO and pro EU militarisation and has almost no voices of those who are concerned about and warning against the Government’s de facto pulling of Ireland closer to NATO, an alliance dominated by powers that have a bloody history of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and many other places. Is it not a bit Orwellian for the Taoiseach to say we are not getting involved with NATO and our neutrality is safe when we recently had NATO commanders in Cork assessing our troops and we are involving ourselves with NATO through the permanent structured co-operation, PESCO, and battle groups? Does it not make the Taoiseach’s commitments about protecting neutrality completely hollow?

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Sitting date: 2023-06-27