Dáil debates

Wednesday, 26 February 2025

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions

Military Neutrality

7:10 am

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Whatever. They also, in their hundreds of thousands, protested about decisions of previous Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments to allow millions of US troops to go through Shannon Airport to assist US-UK led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered on the basis of lies put out by the US. The coalition Government of which the Tánaiste was a member allowed that to happen. Why would we trust the Government when it had NATO generals overseeing our troops in Cork at least twice in the past couple of years? Why would we trust it when the Department of Defence has employed a US Pentagon-based contractor imbued with US values to redesign our Defence Forces? Why would we trust it when it is involving us with the PESCO alliance, which is aligned with NATO and dominated by the US, the UK, France and Germany, some of the biggest imperial powers with brutal records of warmongering? Why would we trust it?

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