Ms Niamh Ní Bhriain:

To add to that, the way Senator Gallagher has set it out, it would seem that neutrality and international law are almost incompatible, but they are not. I agree with what Mr. Kelly said. The Government has been extremely weak on Palestine. If you look at what the neutrality convention, the Hague Convention, says, it is very clear that we should not be allowing US military troops to use Shannon Airport as they are arming and backing a genocide. That is very clear under the neutrality convention. We have done absolutely nothing, with all the knowledge we have of what is going on in Shannon, about the Israeli overflights transporting weapons. We could rely on neutrality as a legal construct in that convention and enforce that and we would still be in line with our obligations under the Genocide Convention, under which we have an obligation to take steps to prevent as well as punish. We have done nothing to try to prevent the genocide. We continue to trade with Israel. There are a number of steps we could have taken that we have not taken. If we were to take an active neutrality stance and not allow Shannon Airport to be used, that would go a long way towards trying to stop the genocide, which is our obligation under international law.

On Ukraine, I also agree. Of course it was an illegal invasion, and what is happening in Ukraine is absolutely horrific. I do not agree that the Irish Government should be sending Irish troops to train Ukrainian soldiers because that is a violation. That could not possibly be compatible with our neutrality. We should be using-----