Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Programmes for Government are important in that they offer guidance. The guidance in this case is very clear. The programme for Government states that we "will not participate in projects that are incompatible with our policy of active military neutrality and non-membership of military alliances". It also states that we "will ensure that all overseas operations ... will be subject to a triple lock of UN, Government and Dáil Éireann approval". I stand by that and that is what this Government will follow. It is important at this time more than ever. I believe that requiring UN approval is central. This war, more than anything else, is about the rights of nation states within the United Nations under that rules system to which we all adhere. Insisting on UN approval as part of the triple lock system, as well as the approval of the Government and the Dáil, is a way to stand up for the most important principle of the United Nations multilateral peace-based system. That is what the programme for Government states. I am proud that the Green Party and its colleagues in government stitched that stipulation into the programme for Government. We stand by it today and will do so again tomorrow.

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