Cathal Berry (Kildare South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Second, we have a no-fly zone for Russian aircraft over the country at present. As for whether we can enforce it or not, we all know the answer to that. We should explore extending that to shipping as well to ban Russian ships from our ports and from our territorial waters.

The Minister, through the European Union, should also have an additional range of sanctions available for primarily one reason. The Russian forces have thermobaric munitions in Ukraine at present. They are not officially classed as weapons of mass destruction but I have seen what they can do in Homs and in Aleppo and we all know what they did in Grozny, Chechnya. If thermobaric munitions are deployed, unprecedented massive additional sanctions should be unleashed.

We are hoping for a diplomatic outcome here. I urge the Russian Federation to implement a ceasefire, to withdraw its troops and to return its alert status for its nuclear weapons back to the baseline from whence it came.

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