Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister told us he was not going to lecture foreign countries on how they should best protect their citizens. I was not expecting him to tell President Hollande that it is pretty irrational to be bombing the living daylights out of Raqqa, where there are 500,000 citizens, and that it would not do much to protect the citizens of France. Does he not think, given the failure of all these military interventions, that it is time we stopped being complicit by allowing Shannon Airport to be used as a US military air base? The Minister is allowing his Defence Forces to go down there and protect military planes on their way to war situations.

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