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
Sinéad Gibney (Dublin Rathdown, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
When we talk to people they say that neutrality is important to them. We know it is important to the Irish people. We know that poll after poll tells us that. Yet, it is so confusing for people when they continuously hear from the Government, the Department and now the witnesses that there is no connection between this legislation, the triple lock, and even neutrality itself, even though during the Nice and Lisbon treaties-----
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