Mr. Ciarán Murphy:

I cannot go along with the Deputy's initial comments about warmongers, but in relation to the decisions around the deployment of forces overseas, that is the primary role and function of this House. It is not the role of anybody else. As I have said on numerous occasions, that the UN is the protector of our neutrality is a fallacy and it was never seen as the protector. This House was seen as the protector.