Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs

Photo of Micheál MartinMicheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I would not use that language. Our contribution to UN peacekeeping changes. We do not stay in the same places all the time, bar maybe in Lebanon. There was a time, if I am not mistaken, when we took time out, but we have been in many parts of the world. We do not stay in certain locations forever. We are participating in an EU battlegroup. We have been engaged in EU battlegroups since 2000, I think.