Tom Brabazon (Dublin Bay North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The conflagration in the Middle East has become wider than Israel and Gaza. It now involves Israel, Iran, Russia and potentially China and others behind Iran and the US and UK coming in behind Israel. Both sides are on the Security Council and either of them could decide to use Ireland as a pawn in the bigger game and say it will veto the renewal of the UNIFIL mandate, which is required next month. In such a scenario, as other witnesses have informed us, we would have to withdraw our troops immediately because we no longer have any legal standing to have our troops there. This would be catastrophic for that region and further destabilise south Lebanon in particular. What do the witnesses have to say about that?