Brian Stanley (Laois, Independent)
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I thank the witnesses and officials for coming in. In her opening statement, Ms Maguire said the programme for Government sets out a commitment to reform the operation of the triple lock while ensuring that the amendments to the legislation are in keeping with Ireland's values and policy of military neutrality. Let us imagine a scenario where a peacekeeping resolution comes before the Security Council and it is vetoed by the permanent members, but the European Union or some other group of countries decides to deploy troops regardless of that. If Ireland participated in that mission, would that not be in conflict with our neutrality, given that we would be taking sides in a global dispute in the context of a veto of the UN Security Council?