Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

I am not. Sitting on the sacred cow of neutrality would be a dangerous approach for the Government to take. What concerns me most is that, at some future point, that sacred cow will be violated by people who have no regard for neutrality and, as a result, we may all pay a price.

We need adequate security of our own in the air and on sea and land to respond with speed to a threat from these three locations. When we put such security in place, in line with the concerns of our European partners, we will have done a good day's work.

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