Seán Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is the point the Minister of State is making. It is the missions we decide to involve ourselves in. That is the point I am making. The Defence Forces are small and my point is that our expertise is in genuine peacekeeping. We do not need to get in with the big boys and all this heavy equipment where it is peacekeeping plus. Peacekeeping is peace-keeping. There are plenty of missions we can get ourselves involved in besides feeling obliged to become part and parcel of this.