Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)

The Minister said there will not be any joint training in the context of the battle groups in Ireland and that that is not required because we are not a framework nation. In terms of the legislation we discussed before the summer and the proposal for assembling the battle groups prior to deployment, there would be areas where the troops would be assembled to allow troops from a number of nations to come together and await the signal for redeployment to the theatre of conflict. Is it a possibility or is it encompassed in the existing legislation that such an assembly could take place in this jurisdiction?

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