Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Right, and I said I did not want to get into the rights and the wrongs of this issue. I mention it because of a fear that the whole conversation around the rapid reaction force, etc, might mean we would end up in a situation where the Russian negotiators say they are not only worried about Ukraine being a member of NATO but also about it joining the EU because of a sense that the organisation might seem to be moving towards being a military alliance. Whatever happens in the future, I am just referring to the possibility of there being a way out of the war soon.