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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-----

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.