Ms Bernie Maguire:

Currently, as it stands, if we were asked to send personnel or a ship, that would have to come under the triple lock. We have no means of doing it in any other way. At the moment, members of the Naval Service go out to the centre in Lisbon but we are not deploying assets or a contingent as we would for a UN peacekeeping mission. It is the same principle. We do not have another legislative basis to provide for it.