Mr. Declan Power:

Yes. It is needed to deploy Irish troops in any meaningful way. It got to the point that it was not only operational deployments that the triple lock was starting to interfere with but also the deployment of small numbers of personnel for military training and educational purposes. I am not 100% sure it would have been possible for us to take part in certain types of multinational exercises, although we have done. It was becoming as precarious as that.

Returning to the point, as regards operational deployments of Irish troops to a conflict area that requires a Security Council resolution and the assent of the Dáil and the Government-----