Dáil debates
Thursday, 10 March 2022
Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions
Departmental Expenditure
9:10 am
Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source
It absolutely is recommended in paragraph 6.11. It is recommended; the Government likes to shy away from it. I also see it in a certain context, which is that a war on neutrality is being launched by the Government and by right-wing media commentators. Military spending will be ramped up and as a logical consequence of that, it is going to be used for something. Instead, we are saying that we need to copper-fasten and protect neutrality. We will bring forward a Bill to insert neutrality into our Constitution. I will be interested in the Government's response to that. We think that is a much better way of going than engaging in this arms race that simply cannot be won and the only winner of which is the big military industrial complex.
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