Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Any fair-minded person who looks at this will see it is dripping and stacked to the rafters with pro-NATO people and people associated with the military-industrial complex. For example, there is not a single speaker from the Non-Aligned Movement. For people's information, that is the biggest movement of states in the world that do not associate or identify with the big military powers, whether Russia, NATO or China. It has 120 members but not a single representative on the forum. NATO has 33 members and the forum is packed with representatives of NATO, people who work with NATO and NATO members. It is stacked in a way designed to condition opinion in a particular direction.

We have had NATO military commanders in Cork assessing our troops. We have signed up to PESCO, which is all about interoperability with NATO. Yet the Taoiseach is seriously suggesting the Government is not by stealth trying to drag us into NATO. He mentioned breaches of the UN Charter which Russia has clearly committed, but says nothing about breaches or violations of human rights by states supported by the US and UK, whether Israel, Saudi Arabia or God knows who else. It is all biased because the Taoiseach is trying to move us away from neutrality. Why will he not support a referendum on the issue of neutrality and a real balanced debate?

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