Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

I am glad Deputy Gormley referred to cluster bombs because Ireland has recently been to the fore at the Convention on Conventional Weapons in this regard. Ireland, along with a number of countries, proposed that the restrictions on the use of cluster bombs be tightened dramatically. In the context of what took place in the Lebanon in recent months, we condemned the use of cluster bombs. It was as a result of what we learned was happening in the Lebanon that we proposed, at the most recent meeting of the convention, that the use of cluster bombs against innocent civilians be severely restricted.

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