Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Shannon has been used as a US military air base to facilitate its military intervention in those countries, and it has destroyed them. Over 2 million citizens have been killed, and we are part of it.

The Government is content to let this go on. What has this got to do with keeping peace? The Minister states that we are good at peacekeeping. We are not keeping much peace by allowing Shannon to be used as a US military air base. We are facilitating the slaughter of innocent people.

In the past five years alone, arms exports have increased by 16%. Militarisation of the planet is destroying it. Military intervention has created numerous failed states in this region and there is a vacuum which is being filled by ISIS. The Government is still prepared to do business with Saudi Arabia, which is facilitating ISIS. The Government has no difficulty with that. It is crazy. How does the Minister stand over it?

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