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- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Mar Theachta atá tar éis Billí a chur faoi bhráid na Dála cúpla uair chun an neodracht a shá i mBunreacht an Stáit, tacaím leis an rún seo. Seasaim i gcoinne iarrachtaí an Rialtais, agus iarrachtaí an Aire, an Teachta Micheál Martin, ach go háirithe, creimeadh a dhéanamh ar sheasamh onórach an Stáit...
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: The Tánaiste should be honest with people.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: He cannot be.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: He should have the courage of his convictions to argue for what he favours. Instead, we had a very dishonest presentation of what he is trying to do. We have had a dishonest presentation for the last two years. People out there, anyone who is watching this debate and who listened to that speech, would have the impression that the Government is committed to defending neutrality. The...
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: People would have the impression that it is the Opposition that is intolerant of democracy.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Intolerant of debate, yes.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: None of that is true, though, is it?
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is true.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: No, it is not true and I will tell him why it is not. Who is intolerant of democracy?
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Look at the Deputy's behaviour at the consultative forum last year.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Michael Ring: Minister, please. The Deputy has the floor.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: Thank you. The Tánaiste talks about my behaviour at the consultative forum. What was the consultative forum? The consultative forum was not a democratic institution. The Tánaiste proposed a democratic institution. He proposed a citizens' assembly so that citizens could come together, discuss it and come up with an outcome but then he ditched-----
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: People cannot gather together at a university campus and have a debate. Is that it?
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: -----that democratic proposal and replaced it with a hand-picked group of people, with a predetermined outcome that I predicted in advance, to recommend getting rid of the triple lock. That is not democracy. I will tell the Tánaiste what democracy is. It is people standing for election on the basis of a certain platform, winning votes on that basis and then proceeding to implement it....
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Then Russia invaded Ukraine.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: What is intolerant of democracy is for him to tear up his election promises because he thinks that now is the chance to get rid of our military neutrality. The Tánaiste would lead people to believe that he has no intention of touching neutrality whatsoever, that the idea that he is interested in getting rid of neutrality is one of these big myths. Again, that is not true. He is not...
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Come on. They are not my quotes on it. That is dishonest.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: The Government decided that this was its moment to try to get rid of military neutrality. What happened then, and the reason the Government ditched the proposal for a citizens' assembly, was that it ran into the roadblock of public opinion. Public opinion, despite all of the attempts to massage it and to say that we need to have a mature debate and so on, remained steadfastly in favour of...
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That has always been the position.