Tom Brabazon (Dublin Bay North, Fianna Fail)

I thank the witnesses for their valuable and erudite contributions. In riposte to Senator Kyne's point about the truth and so forth, it would be my experience, as a legal practitioner, that witnesses who come before the courts regularly espouse the fact that they have a duty to tell the truth before the courts. It would not find it at all unusual in that regard.

I ask Professor Murphy whether the phrase "triple lock" is a misnomer. He said that if we take away the UN mandate for deployment, the triple lock is gone. That was based on the presumption that each government holds a majority. Is it in effect a double lock and not a triple lock?