Mr. Ciarán Murphy:

Yes, absolutely. That is the issue I have been pointing out. From the very beginning, it was seen that the Oireachtas and the Dáil were the protectors of the sovereignty, neutrality and the independent foreign policy that Ireland could assert and, in fact, that Dáil Éireann may have to decide to withdraw from the United Nations in the event that it made decisions that were not consistent with what we wanted. The UN was not seen as the harbinger and protector of our neutrality; it was actually the Dáil that was seen as the protector against the UN.