Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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No. I was advised anyway. The advice was coming because these are two different types of missions. If we are honest, they are not comparable at all in some respects. We first deployed there in 2013 and 3,000 troops have served overall. It is not unusual for us to give ten years or more to a given place. The one place where we have been more or less continuously, with one interruption early in the 2000s, I think, is in Lebanon with UNIFIL. We have been to Chad and did good work there previously. We have also been in Liberia. We keep our options open, therefore, in terms of potential future peacekeeping missions. Part of this undertaking is that we withdraw and consolidate. We are freeing up personnel as well through-----