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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.

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: That is it. According to the Tánaiste-----

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: That has always been the position.

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: According to the Tánaiste, Irish troops-----

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: That was the position ten years ago.

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: -----could have been sent - and perhaps would have been sent, were it not for the triple lock - to participate in the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: No. No way.

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: That is outrageous.

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: Yes, because as long as we did not formally participate in NATO, the Tánaiste is saying that is still military neutrality. He is redefining neutrality in order to say that as long as we are not formally in NATO, we can join in all the missions and send our troops abroad, which is what getting rid of the triple lock is actually about. That is his actual agenda-----