Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I, too, am also glad to be able to speak to this. The Taoiseach told us in his speech that he had met the new Prime Minister in England. It is very important to build up relations there but I have fierce concerns too about our neutrality, the Tánaiste's constant meddling with the triple lock, and his constantly saying that our neutrality is an outdated position.

I am also worried about food production, and us being seen as green, clean and producers of good, safe food. There is an attack on our farmers and we are not standing up for our farmers, or our people for that matter, in the EU. We saw today the NATO summit in America. Of course, the British Prime Minister is gone, and we are tagged along then as being part of that as well. We are a neutral country.

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