Ms Lynn Boylan:

-----complying with the treaties. The EU missions, which the Senator would like the Irish Defence Forces to join, would not have the scrutiny of national parliaments.

They would not have the scrutiny of the Parliament to which Mr. Andrews and I were elected, nor of this Parliament, nor the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, nor the European Court of Auditors nor the European Court of Justice. It would have none of that scrutiny.