Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 May 2025
Committee on Defence and National Security
General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion
2:00 am
Tom Clonan (Independent)
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We are talking about the future. When you remove the triple lock, there is no safeguard in law other than the understanding that any future Government can send any number of Irish troops anywhere in the world for peace enforcement - full combat operations - on the basis of a simple Government majority.
That, to my understanding, is not a safeguard. It is the complete removal of any safeguard and there will be no safeguard in law. What is the largest military formation the Defence Forces can deploy overseas now?