Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Committee on Defence and National Security
General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Dr. Edward Burke:
I have been in university situations where there are very long debates about what a legal definition of neutrality is, including going back to the Hague Convention. It has not ended in agreement; it has ended in serious disagreement. There would be a lot of senior counsels making a lot of money trying to go around the world looking for a definition we can adopt, and then a few years later there would be an attempt to change that and a new challenge. Ultimately, this is a policy issue we have to decide in this place. I think it is the correct place to do it.
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