Dáil debates
Tuesday, 1 March 2022
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
3:10 pm
Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I note the Deputy's reference to the European Union as if it were some foreign entity. We are members of the European Union and are committed to its values. These are universal values of freedom of association, freedom of speech and freedom of media, and self-determination, sovereignty and territorial integrity. Europe's security architecture is an issue from which we cannot escape. The Deputy said last week that European and NATO leaders are warmongers. We now know that to be completely not the case. What the current crisis has exposed and what it means is that the world order as we knew it, in terms of a multilateral and rules-based order, has been turned upside down by Vladimir Putin and nobody else.
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