Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

I agree with the Deputy's sentiments regarding the United Nations. With regard to the legal basis of the triple lock, my advice from the Attorney General is that this is contained in the corpus of defence legislation, namely, the relevant Defence Acts. I do not have the detailed legal advice to hand but I undertake to the Deputy to obtain it and forward it to him.

As the campaign on the draft EU constitution has not yet started, Deputy Gormley has started his early.

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