Ryan O'Meara (Tipperary North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have asked a number of witnesses about my next point. It is the one I really struggle to get my head around. It is from those who believe we need to keep the triple lock in order to protect our neutrality. It is, essentially, that we would rather trust the Security Council to protect our neutrality and have given over our sovereignty, or some part of our sovereignty, to the Security Council, particularly the likes of China, Russia and the US, rather than trust the people who elected us to these Houses to protect a neutrality we all stand for. That is a point I just cannot get my head around - anyone coming in here to present that we would genuinely rather maintain the triple lock and allow the veto to continue rather than taking a second look at a mechanism within these Houses that would continue to protect our neutrality while trusting the democratically elected people of these Houses more than we trust the veto.