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
Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Not immediately. We have been in Chad. That is the point I am making. Situations arise. There are situations in the Middle East. I do not know whether there will be requests made to us in respect of fairly urgent situations right now. Chad was a very heroic mission where our personnel were involved in peacekeeping and in ensuring that vital humanitarian aid got through. Given the troubled world that we live in, there are all sorts of scenarios whereby we could be called upon. That is all I am saying.