Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

You are chipping away at it now day by day. First the migration pact and now joining PESCO. Our neutrality will be gone with what you are at. You have to be honest with the people. Why did you not hold a referendum? You talked before about getting rid of the triple lock. You know what you are doing but you are not telling the Defence Forces. This will affect them and jeopardise them. The triple lock meant that missions had to be approved by the UN. China and Russia are part of the UN. We could have troops stranded out in some country and those two states will not agree at the UN to us bringing our troops home. You are jeopardising the lives of honest, hard-working people who you do not pay properly when they do come home. They have to get family income supplement. That is not being fair. You do not have enough people. You are not recruiting enough and you are making no attempt to do so. This is absolutely ridiculous.

You did not give us time to spell out to the Members here what you are actually doing. We only got this document half an hour ago, and since we came in here. I actually had a minute and a half to talk but, because my colleague did not come in, I now have three minutes. There are several other Members who did not get enough time. We do not know what you are at. The people do not know what you are at. You are not being honest. You held a referendum no bother to dilute the women's role in the home but you cannot hold a referendum on these important matters at all. You are being very unfair with the people. You are using a cobbled-together arrangement with the Green Party to get this over the line, like you did last Wednesday night.

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