Dáil debates

Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members]

 

10:30 am

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

-----that democratic proposal and replaced it with a hand-picked group of people, with a predetermined outcome that I predicted in advance, to recommend getting rid of the triple lock. That is not democracy. I will tell the Tánaiste what democracy is. It is people standing for election on the basis of a certain platform, winning votes on that basis and then proceeding to implement it. The Tánaiste stood for election in the 2020 general election on a certain basis. What was that? It was on the basis of a promise, as contained in the Fianna Fáil manifesto, to "fully maintain neutrality and the triple lock" and he won votes on that basis. Then he put it into the programme for Government. That is democracy.

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