Dáil debates

Thursday, 23 November 2023

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

 

12:00 pm

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

It was the Fianna Fáil Party that introduced military neutrality during the Second World War. The only party in this House that sought to actively undermine the Irish policy of military neutrality during the Second World War was the Sinn Féin Party. That party's leader erected a statue to Seán Russell who collaborated with the German Nazis. That is Sinn Féin's history of its commitment to military neutrality. Those are facts. They erected a statue and honoured the person who actively sought to undermine Eamon de Valera's policy of military neutrality. I take no lectures from the Deputy in respect of our commitment to military neutrality.

What Sinn Féin has classically done here now again and what it does all the time in the realm of foreign policy is to create strawmen all over the place, create false premises, dishonest debate and active disinformation. The Deputy starts his presentation by saying we are out to undermine Irish military neutrality.

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