Professor Ben Tonra:

Yes. I do not think I used the word "weak". What I was implying - this comes back to Deputy Haughey's question as well - is, as both of them will recall from their political careers, that there is a difference between support and support. The Irish Government's position has been spot on, pro forma, as it should be in terms of the declaration. My point is that as a small country so invested in the rule of law, international treaties and the post-Cold war settlement that we have, we might be a little more in terms of our support, not just on the rhetorical level but also on the practical level. I do not want to go full Skibbereen Eagleon it. We do not have the defence capacity to do anything of material value for Ukraine, but one would like to see a conversation happening at Cabinet or in Iveagh House on what more could we do to visibly show Ukrainians that we are with them and that we are standing with them and, by implication, show to our partners in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania that we have their back in the way that they had ours.