Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Regarding the up to 10,000 operational staff mentioned by Deputy Haughey, I understand two contradictory things are being said by the EU, namely, that the force will operate only on request from a member state while at the same time, when it is in the EU's interest, it will launch if necessary an emergency intervention even without approval. Can we have clarity on that?

What steps are being taken concerning the numerous deaths of journalists in the EU? Within one year, there have been three deaths. It is a year almost to the month since the murder of the Maltese journalist. Recently, there was the murder of a journalist in Bulgaria and, prior to that, one in Slovakia. What steps have been taken on what this represents?

Monopoly game type figures are being used for the climate change fines Ireland will face, varying from millions to billions of euro. As we are not going to meet in the first instance our 2020 climate change targets, what is the figure now?

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