Réada Cronin (Kildare North, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I would love if the Minister could be honest with the people and if he would put it to the people in the form of a referendum and to enshrine our neutrality in the Constitution. The Minister stood on a platform of protecting the triple lock in his last manifesto. Irish people are proud of our military neutrality. They are not embarrassed by some of the invited guests in the Minister’s consultative forum last summer. Irish people cherish our neutrality and the triple lock and we in Sinn Féin also cherish it. The consultative forum had no appetite to change our position on neutrality. There was no appetite to change the triple lock either. I was there for that debate which was held in Dublin Castle. It is bizarre that the Minister is trying to change it now. Why not put it to the people if he wants to remove the triple lock? It has not prevented us from engaging in any peace-keeping missions.

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