Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 June 2025
Committee on Defence and National Security
General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Seán Kyne (Fine Gael)
I do not think there was a need to put in it in an opening statement. On point No. 7: "Twelve reasons why people in neutral states do not wish to join NATO", I do not wish to join NATO. I have not heard anyone say he or she wishes to join NATO. There is nothing in this Bill that infers we join NATO. Dr. Devine follows this by "with or without a UN mandate". Even if within the triple lock, if a decision was made for a peacekeeping force, obviously, therefore with a UN mandate, and if the EU and NATO were supportive of it, she would be against it. Is she not contradicting herself in that regard?
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