Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Why are we supporting this ramping up of European military and defence investment? Should we not be speaking out against it? An annual increase in spending for the defence fund of €5.5 billion is being spoken about. Are we not speaking out against the development of a bigger arms industry? Is any concern being expressed about the huge sales of arms from a number of quarters to Saudi Arabia, given its sponsorship of groups like ISIS, what it is doing in Yemen, the actions it is now taking against Qatar and its generally pernicious role in the region? We should be speaking loudly against it.

Are we also speaking up loudly and robustly against people like Viktor Orbán? He described migrants as poison and encouraged putting up shutters against the desperate people who are drowning in their thousands in the Mediterranean. Are we not saying we should be allowing more of these desperate people in? We should be speaking out against Viktor Orbán.

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