Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State says we will not participate in mutual defence arrangements based on NATO membership. Given that the deterrent force is to be based in the Baltic states, in particular Poland, and that a threat has been issued by the NATO chief, Mr. Jens Stoltenberg, that the force of 4,000 soldiers with tanks and everything else could be increased quickly to 40,000, is the Minister of State concerned that our participation in Partnership for Peace is facilitating NATO members in concentrating on their militarisation of these borders rather than their UN duties, as we hope they would?

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