Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South-Central, Sinn Fein)

That is the legal position. At present, there are no obstacles to that being done.

That brings me back to the point that the argument frequently being made on the triple lock by the Government is that change is needed for the reason of humanitarian evacuation and drug interdiction missions. Why do the Department and the Minister not simply bring forward a Bill to dealt with that rather than changing the criteria for peacekeeping missions?