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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: I will deal with the triple lock. First, in 2023 and 2024 to date, no applications have been received or exemptions granted to permit the carriage of munitions of war on civil aircraft flying to a point in Israel. Second, no airport in Ireland or Irish sovereign airspace is being used to transport weapons to the conflict in the Middle East or any other war. People should stop trying to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Bríd Smith: It would be grand if the planes were inspected. We might believe the Tánaiste.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is an absurdity for the Deputy to suggest that any amendment to the triple lock is about ditching neutrality or aligning with any other member state. It is not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Bríd Smith: That is what everyone is saying except the Tánaiste.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy rarely condemns Russia or Iran in here.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Bríd Smith: This is ridiculous; we are talking about a genocide happening in Gaza.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Smith-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: I try to be balanced and look at things in a balanced way. It is extraordinary and interesting that the malign influence of Iran in the Middle East barely gets referenced in this House. Iran has meddled, has manipulated and has been a huge issue in respect of the escalation of violence in that environment.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Bríd Smith: And the Tánaiste keeps slipping away from the crucial question I am asking him.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: I am answering the Deputy's question. I do not believe Russia should have a veto on whether Irish Defence Forces become engaged in international peacekeeping anymore. That is the bottom line as far as I am concerned. We are depending on a rogue state on the Security Council that can veto any peacekeeping proposal from the United Nations. I am unequivocal about it. It is not about...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Bríd Smith: What about the behaviour of the US as a state? What about the ironclad guarantee to Israel? Is that okay?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Smith-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: I respectfully say to the Deputy that we should be able to debate these things without making assertions about what we are doing.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Bríd Smith: An ironclad guarantee is not an assertion.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: We are not ditching military neutrality. We support military neutrality in Ireland and we are not going to change it in any shape or form. We have said that consistently and that remains the position. Amending the triple lock does not amount in any shape or form to undermining our policy on military neutrality.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Bríd Smith: In many shapes and forms it undermines our policy. Let us be honest about it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy, please.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: It does not. It genuinely does not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: This will be a bit different and not the usual spat at Leaders' Questions. I thank Deputies Naughten and Kerrane. We are here as Roscommon-Galway TDs, joined together and above all we are here united with the people of Lough Funshinagh in County Roscommon. The Tánaiste will be aware of the situation with Lough Funshinagh in County Roscommon, where the water is getting higher and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: I fully agree that the situation is intolerable for those living in the area. I have met them in the past and I will meet them again. Senator Murphy has been in regular contact with me, and Deputy Fitzmaurice and others have raised the issue consistently. As he knows, Roscommon County Council had plans for the construction of a pipeline and so forth, and a legal action was taken. The...