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- 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-----
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: No, it is not.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: ------we are still neutral. That is the Tánaiste's agenda here.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: No, it is not. That is a very dishonest presentation.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: The Tánaiste should not tell me about dishonesty.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is a deliberately dishonest distortion, which Deputy Murphy is very good at.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: The Tánaiste should not tell me about dishonesty.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Michael Ring: Deputies, please. One moment.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I apologise.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Michael Ring: Deputy Murphy has the floor but I would like him to tone down his comments a small bit. At the same time, I expect the Tánaiste to do the same.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate that. I apologise.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: The Tánaiste does not like hearing the truth. He tells us today that the proposed modification of the triple lock "does not impact in any way on our policy of military neutrality". That was not always his position. It is the case that in 2013 he said that the triple lock is "at the core" of our neutrality, not something peripheral or separate, but at the core of our neutrality. He...
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Yes.