Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Confrontation and violence seem to be escalating worldwide. No lesser person than the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has warned we could be heading towards "a wider war". He also said that the prospects for peace keep diminishing and that he fears the world is not sleepwalking into a wider war, stating, "I feel it is doing so with its eyes wide open." He noted that scientists and security experts had moved the doomsday clock to just 90 seconds to midnight last month, and concluded: "We have started 2023 staring down the barrel of a confluence of challenges unlike any in our lifetimes." What is the Government doing to de-escalate confrontation and violence and to promote dialogue in both the United Nations and in the European Community?

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