Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Troops, as is always the case in terms of the military, will follow orders. Our job in Mali has been to train troops predominantly to try to de-mine certain areas and to try to protect themselves and the civilians they are there to try to protect from some pretty unsavoury forces across the Sahel and Mali. That is what they have been there for. I would not like the kind of slur that the Deputy has just attributed to them-----