Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The point I am making is that the Department of Defence procedures in terms of procuring goods and services is absolutely consistent with international best practice at UN and EU levels. That is a decision we have made. If there is a collective proposal at UN level to take targeted action and to use trade as a way to force change in some part of the world or in a region, then Ireland will be part of that discussion but I am not in a position to make foreign policy decisions in regard to individual companies, and certainly not on the back of a parliamentary question.

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