Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)

We are members of the UN standby arrangement system and our deployment of 850 personnel is available for call-down, as the UN is aware. When I was having discussions with UN representatives with regard to the mission in Chad, I made clear we would be available for future missions. I have no doubt that proposals will be put to us in the not too distant future at which point we will consider them according to the criteria I outlined in my reply.

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