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- Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I am pleased to confirm that the Government will support this motion. There are moments in time when we are confronted with the sharpest of contrasts in human nature - the contrast between decency and depravity, between good and evil, between love and hate. On 17 May 1974, this country faced such a moment. On a Friday evening, bright with the promise of early summer, decent people,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Acting Chair and committee members for the invitation to brief them on developments at the European Union Foreign Affairs Council and at the United Nations since I last briefed them on those issues in October, as well as our relationship with NATO. As might be expected, discussions and decisions in all of these formats have been heavily focused on the crises in Ukraine and the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: As regards the European position on the summit in Switzerland, which has been some time in the making, President Zelenskyy over a year ago, I would say, published or produced his ten-point peace plan, and it is on that framework that European member states, particularly Ireland, will be focused. The Taoiseach discussed the summit with President Zelenskyy during their recent phone call, on 9...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Thirty-three. It is a platoon size. That was on the advice of military leadership in the context of force protection.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I would not use that language. Our contribution to UN peacekeeping changes. We do not stay in the same places all the time, bar maybe in Lebanon. There was a time, if I am not mistaken, when we took time out, but we have been in many parts of the world. We do not stay in certain locations forever. We are participating in an EU battlegroup. We have been engaged in EU battlegroups since...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: But I would not use that language.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Right now, yes, but that can change in the next six or 12 months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: As the Deputy will be aware, the Security Council has not sanctioned one since 2014, hence the amendment to the triple lock.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Sorry?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Yes, and there are others where we have some and we have lower numbers. We will consider all of those.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Not immediately. We have been in Chad. That is the point I am making. Situations arise. There are situations in the Middle East. I do not know whether there will be requests made to us in respect of fairly urgent situations right now. Chad was a very heroic mission where our personnel were involved in peacekeeping and in ensuring that vital humanitarian aid got through. Given the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I did that on military advice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The military advice was to consolidate. They wanted to participate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: There was also our participation in the EU battle group. I made that clear at the time, particularly because Ireland is a member of the European Union and because I support participation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I know but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I do not regret choices.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is endeavouring to introduce a politically partisan dimension to the debate which is unwarranted with regard to making decisions in respect of consolidation of our presence in various places around the world and trying to put a political construct on it. That is unfortunate. Anyway, we are entitled to our respective views.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I have no issue with coming before the committee at any time in respect of anything. The Deputy knows that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I did not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I never rejected that.