Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

I welcome the international conference on the banning of cluster munitions that is to take place in this country. On the last occasion, when the Ottawa Convention that banned landmines was being prepared, the Government prepared a valuable statutory instrument that influenced the conference. On this occasion, does the Government intend to prepare a statutory instrument on the banning of cluster munitions? I asked that question previously. Such an instrument would guide the outcome of the international conference in Croke Park, in which many nations will take part.

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