Ms Niamh Ní Bhriain:

Somebody else, or maybe it was the Deputy, put the same question to Mr. Ray Murphy. I cannot see any good reason for abandoning the triple lock, so I would not waste my time trying to come up with alternatives. Ireland has a triple lock that has served us really well and we would be very foolish and reckless and it would be playing with fire to decide to get rid of it. As a base minimum, I would keep the triple lock and build on that. Deputy Brabazon referenced Mr. Joe Noonan's interventions. In reference to the court, Mr. Noonan said he would look to have the aspirations mentioned in the Horgan case actually enshrined in law. That is the direction we should go in, in terms of strengthening our neutrality and not eroding it.