Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I remind the Tánaiste the UN has sanctioned a peacekeeping mission in the Golan Heights for which our Defence Forces have quite rightly earned widespread praise for the way and the manner in which they have conducted themselves, and I would argue that peacekeeping mission is more important now than ever. We are withdrawing from that peacekeeping mission, not at the behest of Vladimir Putin but at the behest of Micheál Martin. He is the man who is withdrawing our troops from that peacekeeping mission.

I will ask the Tánaiste one more time, because I am sure he is not suggesting we enter Ukraine, considering that no external forces are engaged in military or peacekeeping activity in that country at the moment. He has outlined on a number of occasions that he wants this legislative change to be made without delay. Where is it, therefore, that he wants to send members of the Defence Forces where they are currently precluded from going, given he has withdrawn them from the places where they were doing good work?

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