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

I spoke about this at some length last night in the Seanad. I have given a clear commitment to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that I would discuss with the committee the way in which I believe the triple lock mechanism should evolve. I do not believe that it is okay to continue on the basis of relying on a UN Security Council mandate to send Irish troops abroad if that mandate may be blocked by the use of the veto, given current tensions between P5 member states of the Security Council. I do not believe that Russia, China or any other P5 member should have a veto over where Irish troops go. That is all. We are not proposing to change the long-standing policy of military non-alignment and military neutrality and we are not breaching that policy in helping Ukraine to defend itself against aggression. I would like to see this House be more critical of the aggressor in this war rather than the country that is trying to defend its people and whose capital city-----

See this speech in context