Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 May 2025
Committee on Defence and National Security
General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion
2:00 am
Tom Brabazon (Dublin Bay North, Fianna Fail)
I welcome Ms Maguire and thank her for the presentation. One obvious question has in some ways been answered as part of the responses to the questions Senator Clonan posed, but is it believed the Bill fundamentally undermines military neutrality? In the absence of a UN Security Council mandated peacekeeping mission, for example, is there another UN mechanism available to the State to deploy troops to a peacekeeping mission? Are there concrete examples Ms Maguire might have as to where the triple lock may have been an obstacle to the deployment of troops on, for example, a UN mission?
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