Defence Forces
Dail Éireann — 2024-05-16
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

I did not interrupt you Deputy and I am making some clear points. Ireland incurred the wrath of Ethiopia by strongly standing by a humanitarian measure. Our international presence is humanitarian. It is peacekeeping. Please stop trying to portray what we are about here as some sort of erosion of our military neutrality, or a sort of engagement in militarisation and imperial powers. That is so absurd it needs to be called out. We need sane rational debate about where we are in the world today. I will not tolerate attempts to undermine sane rational debates. That is what I genuinely believe.

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