Defence Forces
Dail Éireann — 2024-05-16
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Gino Kenny (PBP), Dublin Mid-West

I agree with the Tánaiste that the UN Security Council is dysfunctional. Look at the role of the United States with regard to Israel and its conduct over the past seven months, whereby 35,000 people have been killed including 15,000 children. Think about this. It is absolutely dysfunctional. The United States has played a completely detrimental role in international relations. It has undermined human solidarity in terms of the UN. Ireland has played a key role in peacekeeping in the Middle East but this has been slowly eroded over recent years in terms of militarisation across the European complex. We just have to look at the European defence industrial strategy. Look at it. I ask anybody to have a look at it. Do not tell me this is not a precursor to a European army throughout Europe.

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Sitting date: 2024-05-16