Ms Bernie Maguire:

We had some discussion already on this. The Government has been clear that this is not about changing Ireland's policy on military neutrality. There is no intention to authorise the State to become a member of an international organisation that we are not already a member of. We already discussed the genesis of where this legislation came from. It was nothing to do with our neutrality. It was around the framework as to how we can deploy to the UN. That is where it originated from. The safeguard we are going to ensure will be in our legislation is that it will remain fully consistent with the principles of the UN Charter and international law. The detail will be in the Bill as to how the Minister of the day and the Government of the day can be reassured of that.