Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

As Minister for Defence, I was interested to read what Fine Gael's Deputy Timmins had to say in his Ard-Fheis speech last April when he recommitted Fine Gael to abandoning our military neutrality and described the policies pursued by this and previous Governments as "a twilight zone". That is yet another vitally important area of policy where Fine Gael and the Labour parties are in polar opposition to each other. This Government has a huge job of work to do. It has the right policies-----

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