Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2021-10-20
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Simon Coveney (FG), Cork South-Central

How is NATO different? If we were considering this while NATO was working under a UN mandate on a project in Afghanistan, under the Senator's amendment, NATO would have been an organisation we could work with. However, under the Senator's proposed amendment, as soon as that UN mandate is over we could no longer work with NATO.

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Sitting date: 2021-10-20