Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have clear views about how that debate should evolve and so on. I hope we will be able to have some of that debate, although resourcing our Defence Forces is a different debate to the debate on neutrality, how it is defined and what is wanted for the future. I am not proposing to this House that Ireland should move away from its position of non-military alignment. I will propose to Government next week that we adopt an ambitious series of recommendations in response to the commission's report. The recommendations are loyal to the report.

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