Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will not give a commitment on a referendum because that is a matter for the Government of the day, in terms of foreign policy more generally. I welcome the Deputy's important statement that no one is against debate because at the very mention of hosting a national conversation or forum on foreign policy and security, and I will be bringing proposals to Government in the next number of weeks to facilitate such a national debate and conversation, people on Deputy Kenny's side of the House and from the far left generally immediately seized upon this as evidence of the end of our neutrality. If we create a national forum where all sides and all perspectives can make submissions, we cannot just immediately label that as some sort of attempt to browbeat people into a particular policy-----

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