Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not have enough information about that to be able to answer that now. Ukraine is under attack from Russia and we have a period of extreme global instability. The EU, as a stable group of countries committed to the values of human rights and democracy, needs to provide appropriate support for a democratic state that is under attack. We need to help it develop its systems within that context and move to a period of accession. I cannot comment on what happened before then as I do not have the information nor do I think it would be fair and appropriate. We are dealing with where we are now. I am very glad to have the Deputy's support for this Bill. I interpret it, I hope correctly, as support for the European Union project, for solidarity within the EU and its position. It is a strong democratic group of nations trying to work together against Russian aggression.