Professor Ray Murphy:

To answer one of the first issues Senator Higgins raised, recently Ireland ceased to participate in the UN peacekeeping mission on the Golan Heights, UNDOF. We did that, as I understand it, specifically because of the low numbers in the Defence Forces and the commitment we made to the EU battlegroup. There is a prime example of where we were taking troops from a UN-mandated mission fulfilling a key role in a very volatile part of the world, to commit to something that has actually never been deployed and is quite problematic in its own right. We gave precedent to a non-UN concept. I think that was a mistake and I think it is wrong. This legislation will probably only make such situations more likely in the future. We agree that there is the prospect of utilising soft power and Irish diplomacy along with other states. For example, within the Security Council as a non-permanent member, the non-permanent members kind of form a coalition to try to work constructively together to balance the power between the non-permanent members and the permanent members and try to achieve a constructive outcome for the work of the Security Council. We can expand that within the General Assembly because we have that reputation that we both agree exists and there is the prospect, and it should be part of Government policy to prioritise this for our UN engagement.

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