Ms Bernie Maguire:

Yes. It is under the head of the Bill that updates section 3 of the 2006 Act. All the circumstances are listed there. We are trying to broaden out as much as possible, and especially in light of what has changed since 2006. A lot of the language was around humanitarian issues, in the event of crises overseas and where there might have been a disaster or an emergency. Unfortunately, they are coming more into the kind of sharper secure security space. We wanted to be very clear, for example, with the type of situations like the evacuation of citizens from Kabul, where members of the Army Ranger Wing are part of an emergency civil assist team going out and evacuating citizens. We are trying to make it as exhaustive as possible. If there is language we are missing, however, we would very much welcome the committee's input on that, and we will be sure to include it.

The Senator mentioned the definition of military neutrality. He is right that the practice in government is that Ireland's policy of military neutrality means that we do not participate in military alliances or any common defence arrangement. When it comes to a situation like that in Ukraine, however, we are not neutral. This reflects the position that we should assist with Ukrainian people. We have welcomed Ukrainian-----