Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)

But the whole focus seems to be criticism of Europe, whereas, for instance, one of the things the European Union has done over the last 40 years is that we have come from a conflict situation in the Second World War to where now 460 million people live in peace. The question is whether that is at risk now, and I do not think the presentations dealt with that issue.

I will go on to deal with the triple lock system. One of the problems about the triple lock is that a number of countries can block a UN mandate being given. For example, if in the morning Russia decided not to carry out any more bombing or conflict in Ukraine and that it would not move forward any further in relation to the territory it now occupies, and if the UN in the morning decided to put in a peacekeeping force in there, the likelihood is that both Russia and China would object to that happening. That means that if Ireland wanted to send in troops to help out troops from either Poland or any other European country, we would not be able to do it. Is that not the correct position?