Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)

I wish to express the Green Party's reservations on this method of doing business in respect of these two motions. It had been proposed a number of weeks ago that they would be put on the Order Paper and a debate was agreed to at the time. The House should take an opportunity on an annual basis to discuss how the Defence Forces are being deployed in UN missions throughout the world. It should so do both to offer words of support and to examine questions as to whether they are being properly resourced. Placing two motions on an Order Paper like this, without even having the secondary option of having the motions debated at the Select Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights, is not a practice this House should adopt.

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