Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I shall be brief. We are in agreement on his report but the Minister is a bit of an agent provocateur about the issue of EU battlegroups and neutrality. In case he thinks that Deputy Finian McGrath and I have joined some conspiracy theory organisation, I will read a quote from the Secretary General of NATO, Jaap De Hoop Scheffer: "EU Battle Groups could be used to go to war. Why did the EU create the Battle Group? It is not just to help rebuild a country. The Battle Groups are not for building schools. We should not think the EU is for soft power and NATO for tough power." We are not entirely among the conspiracy theorists.