Military Neutrality
Dail Éireann — 2022-03-24
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Simon Coveney (FG), Cork South-Central

I stand over all those things. People have questioned the triple lock for years on the basis of not being comfortable with a country in the UN Security Council being able to veto a decision Ireland might want to make to send troops to some part of the world. On balance - I have advocated for this - I think the triple lock is a good thing. I can completely understand why people would question it in terms of Ireland's ability to decide where in the world our own soldiers may go.

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Sitting date: 2022-03-24